Fat Albert
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Drove the 230 mile round trip to Bracknell, saw another Red 944 and clicked over onto 211,000 miles
what did you do to your 944 today
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That's the one. Great build! Seemed like a very nice humble sort of guy too.ORIGINAL: CarreraRSRSteve Bassington's car. A very extreme hillclimb car pushing the engineering boundaries of a 924 turbo to the limits. I will not be going this route as I plan to keep the external features of my car stock. Happy with 200 ish bhp not 300+ which Steve was pushing on his car. There will always be better and more expensive ways of extracting more power/efficiency. However I know my limits!!ORIGINAL: 333pg333 I believe he's done a fair bit of work on this car since these pics were taken too.
djaychela
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Finally been doing the sealing of the tailgate glass and surround, having spent FOUR HOURS removing the glass (constant work, not chatting or arsing about), and another three prepping the glass and the surround. Primered the glass, put all the sealer on the frame, put it in place, clamped it, cleaned up the excess and smoothed what I can, now I have to wait 24 hours to be on the safe side and then see if it's all holding together. Even managed to stay clean, which is good as PU sealer is as sticky as hell!
pixie*porsche
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Started polishing the Fondmetals. They are staying until I decide for certain what I want on the car and even if I'm keeping the car itself... [&:]
Suffolk944
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Heared that its just about ready to be picked up new turbo installed, running sweetly and in time for the Costwolds rally too [
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Swapped the very rusty shocks and springs at the front and the rear shocks for some S/h 968 ones (thanks Paul) on the 2.7 - made very noticeable difference. Washed and polished both and my wifes Hyundai Coupe, should have done the van and Galaxy as well but it was getting dark.
pixie*porsche
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Off to do more wheel polishing! If I can get these Fondmetals looking decent I'll take a couple of pics. []
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Found a spare switch position in the 2.7 so put a USB charging socket in it! Drove the '83 to take some pics - [link=http://s787.photobucket.com/albums/yy158/A9XXC/Square%20Dash%20Porsche%20%20944s/]drive[/link]
Trevor68
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Mike, Any chance of a picture and details of that. Sounds like a very useful mod? (And great pics by the way [
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Will take some pics later but basicly just used a Belkin usb plug like this - [link=http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-BELKIN-MICRO-USB-CLA-ADAPTOR-CAR-CHARGER-F8Z445EA-/380330944822?pt=UK_ConsumerElectronics_PowerAdaptors_SM&hash=item588d7da936#ht_1643wt_1139]Slimline usb[/link] although mine was an older sort with a flip up handle. This worked fine it the '83 car but had too short a body to reach the contacts in the 2.7, so I just took the works out of it drilled and filed a suitable sized hole in the blanking plate, soldered a couple of wires on to the card and ran them to the lighter socket feed. The additional current draw is only about 0.5 amp so that was all I did, although you could put an in line fuse in. The socket becomes live with the "accessory" key position and I dont like too many lights in the car so I left the LED behind the front plate and it is just enough to be able to find the socket at night.
Note the slots in the sides of the blamking plate are not half way up the usb slot and also the blanking plate only fits in one way up.
And this one you can just see the back light
I thought about doing that, but decided that the PCB would fit perfectly in the space, with good support for it and if I got it wrong - a new blanking plate would be cheaper than a new dash!
I would reposition the alarm LED, assuming the existing hole is not too large, as the LED is only a plain hole and dosent need very much support, whereas the usb does and the blanking plate has the ideal structure built in!
djaychela
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Having finally sealed the leaky tailgate glass, I spent today removing the horrible filthy and worn-out interior from my car. It looks OK in this picture:
But it really wasn't - the seats were destroyed (I sold them a few weeks ago to a VW fiend) and the carpets were filthy and oil-ridden, and nothing would clean them up. I got lucky with a decent carpet set from a crashed 35k mile car for £50, and the seats from the car I broke. Not finished (as I still have the horrific stereo wiring to replace as it's awful), but not bad for a day's work given the amount of messing about with glue and so on to get everything in place properly.
As it happens I'm hoping to take my car on holiday this summer, this is all preparation for it. Next up will be fixing the terrible door cards, which will be quite an achievement given the horrible rotten state of them!
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