what did you do to your 944 today
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Copperman05
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Looks good, how would you compare the S2 to the lux? Edd
TTM
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On Friday I brought the head of the S2 to the machine shop for a refresh in addition to removing the bent intake valve and valve guide. Anxiously waiting for a phone call from them where they may well mention all guides and seats need to be replaced...€€€€ [8|] On Sunday I updated the ECU software on the turbo to the latest version available, tried further-refined fuel/ignition/boost/idle settings and came back home with a huge banana between both ears, in the knowledge that I may well have reached the limit of the hardware - as observed by a friend on his own 3.0 8V turbo engine, the stock 944T intake manifold and/or camshaft may not allow to net more than ~380bhp, at least perfectly safely, as the engine feels stressed.
Replaced both front wheel bearings...first one took 3 hours, the second took me about an hour. Feels so much more solid a car now, dead chuffed. Following the success of the bearings I then replaced the seals on the power steering pump with a kit I picked up from the t'internet. Oh man that is one messy job! [
] Feels bloomin fantastic now and although it's early days the 944 steering and low speed moan seems to have been eradicated...at last and all for £15 and a couple of hours fettling! Seems though that as soon as you tick one job off the list another 2 pop on! Since working on the car on Sunday I found that the boot is basically a swimming pool (I suspect rear light seals) and that the throttle pedal is sticking when giving it the boot which is very worrying. I suspect the latter is something to do with the complex set of bits required to make the cruise control system work. Still, onwards and upwards!
] Feels bloomin fantastic now and although it's early days the 944 steering and low speed moan seems to have been eradicated...at last and all for £15 and a couple of hours fettling! Seems though that as soon as you tick one job off the list another 2 pop on! Since working on the car on Sunday I found that the boot is basically a swimming pool (I suspect rear light seals) and that the throttle pedal is sticking when giving it the boot which is very worrying. I suspect the latter is something to do with the complex set of bits required to make the cruise control system work. Still, onwards and upwards!
Cheers for that, the thought had not occurred to me that it was something that happened to other 944's as I retro fitted the cruise control and had to do some delicate rearranging (with a hammer of course) of the steel bar that sits behind the pedal to get it all to work so naturally assumed it was my handy work that's got it into a spot of bother. Sticking from from jacking it up you say? How does that happen?!
Copperman05
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48,000 miles service by Promax, inc synth gear oil, gearchange much smoother now, bodywork also sorted at last, now off to Le Mans Classic... Edd
JamesO
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I guess not at the moment as I've been tuning it without boost, not sure at what level of boost you need a bypass. I will be running more boost than the last dyno run, I accidently left it on the low setting for the last run. I'll know more monday when it goes on the dyno, the boost is turned up and it gets properly tuned. It was far from ideal before.
Took the doorcards off with a view to replacing the fabric on them - linen pinstripe, and it was a shade of grey. Gave them (and the door pockets - linen carpet) a VERY good scrub with some carpet cleaner and a stiff nylon brush instead, rinsed them and left them outside to dry and re-fitted them today. The improvement is such that I now need to remove the rest of the interior and do the same to it - the doorcards stand out as being massively much cleaner! [] Oli.
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Well I managed to open a right can of tin worms. There is a bit of bubbling on the n/s/r arch and a little rust showing through which I wanted to do something about; I wish I hadn't looked [>:]: Before 
After grinding down paint, etc.: 
It's a similar story all round the edge of the arch , although this appears to be the worst of it. Clearly a previously bodged job of rust treatment covered by about 1mil of filler and painted. Anyone have any recommendations for welding in London (I've got paint enough to do that myself) Cheers, Neil
After grinding down paint, etc.: It's a similar story all round the edge of the arch , although this appears to be the worst of it. Clearly a previously bodged job of rust treatment covered by about 1mil of filler and painted. Anyone have any recommendations for welding in London (I've got paint enough to do that myself) Cheers, NeilSorry, can't help. But if you do DIY painting then could I have a lesson please? I have just bought a compressor with a view to re-dying my seats, and spraying of bodywork would be something I would love to learn. What did I do to my 944 today? Well, yesterday I was packing the boot with stuff for a weekend away and the boot release mechanism went pop - the bellcrank snapped. It seems to be something that is fairly common on 944's now, and was only a matter of time. A weekend away with SWMBO and an un-opening boot would be a recipe for marital discord, so I made a new bellcrank - surprisingly easily. Should post up some photos I guess. Oli.
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