Young man's first Porsche aka project 951

[os951]

George, actually we can add some kind of traction/launch control system. Son have already a Tatech ems, which have also traction/launch control availability. It only requires a ABS system..... What comes to driving conditions up here in north; as a daily drivers i have a Subaru 4wd for summer and E30 bodied BMW for winter (no electrical assistance systems), i suppose you see the point [] We have been looking for a cost effective front brake system for junior's project. Now we have decided to install these clone reds (Big Red size) with Cayenne 330mm disks. A friend of mine will fabricate adapters for this combo. Disks will be either drilled or slotted with CNC machines.

Have been looking for these parts quite long time for my own 16V Turbo build up. Friend gave these yesterday [] Quite easy to make repros from them if needed.

 

[George Elliott]

Olli, Interesting info as usual. The 330mm disc is a heavy component, any thoughts on Aluminium mounting bells? My original 86 car had the smallest brakes, but the nicest rough road behaviour which I still attribute to a softer setup and less unsprung weight. George 944tl

 

[os951]

George, Cayenne 330mm disk is heavy, as you mentioned. We will slightly modify it. It will be either cross drilled or slotted. Friend have a suitable CNC machinery to do it either way. We have those calipers already, but we are looking for more cost effective disk's for them. 928 GTS or 964 Turbo disks are priced to high for my son. When i can buy Cayenne units about 40-50€/pcs, it's way to go. We can save a weight a bit using friends fabricated billet hubs. Necessarily these brake parts are not needed, there's that "bling-bling" factor young man wants to have. Brakes can be seen quite nicely through these wheels son already have

 

[os951]

Got a lot of parts from plating company. I suppose most of the project cars parts which need to be yellowpassived are now done. Here's some of the parts before plating. Have to take a picture of finished parts later, they turned out really nice

I changed belts to a 944 S today (was my 16th belt changed during this year). When i have a car in my yard without S2/951 style side skirts i test fitted some skirts i have made. First one is a Strosek clone the second one is a copy of factory item

Since that car is a 944 S, i just had to have this:

I took a mold from air cleaner box

 

[os951]

Some parts for son's project []

 

[os951]

We delivered quite a lot of different parts to powder coater's. More or less all necessary parts are finally getting paint on them. Son is here cleaning intake to be powdercoated. He removed a heat insulating which was added there.

We didn't want to powdercoat the cam tower. Local paint store mixed us a can of heat resistant paint, RAL 7016. Intake will get get the same shade of color (powder coat).Color is much darker in live.

RAL 7016 sample chip:

 

[os951]

We got the parts back from powder coaters

 

[os951]

Friend machined some paint off

Some semi-solid transmission carriers on their way.

Final product looks like this

 

[os951]

Not much progress on project car. Have prepared some minor parts. Too much side project going on. Change transmission oil to 911.

Also checked out oil pressure problem, which was luckily a bad wire contact to pressure sender.

Also find out why heater/AC won't work properly

 

[os951]

Friend fabricated this brake cooling system for us

 

[944 man]

Olli, when the car is finished and the thread ends, Id like your final post on iy to be a list including all parts featured and a price list, along with a postal address. Simon

 

[os951]

Well, i suppose we have totally lost the control of this project..... We just bought two 16V heads for the project car's engine. Items are 928 ones used at least on model year '85/'86 engines, so they are more or less direct bolt on to 2,5L 951 block. Just need to enlarge intake valves and increase a bit intake side channels. But when you get parts for a student friendly price, what can you do.... []

 

[TTM]

Any plan to produce through 9P a ready-to-fit intake manifold for the 16V head(s)?

 

[os951]

Actually we discussed with my friend about that today. He bought a new CNC machine today and one of the first jobs to do is billet runners for Audi 5-cylinder engine. Here in Finland is a guy (Repo) who builds very good Audi engines. Here's one of his intakes for sale in austrian Ebay http://www.ebay.at/itm/REPO-Zweikammer-Spaltsaugrohr-Ansaugbruecke-AUDI-20VT-S2-/230586405713#ht_747wt_1163

Here's one of the Repo Audi engine under building

When Audi engines runners are ready we are going to focus on Porsche intakes

 

[TTM]

Nice. I know it's easier said than done, but it would be nice to have a modular design where the plenum would be swappable with different intake flanges - different plenum volumes for different intake flanges (8V/16V intake ports). I have a CF intake from Jonas Larsson, I have had the flange reworked but I still don't like how it looks. Would you be interested to have a close look at it? I need a proper rework of the intake flange to fit my 2.7 head.

 

[Diver944]

ORIGINAL: 944 man Olli, when the car is finished and the thread ends, Id like your final post on iy to be a list including all parts featured and a price list, along with a postal address.

and then you need to book a ferry with your son and come over here to show it off to us Brits []

 

[os951]

Thomas, making flange/runner for the 2.7L head is quite similar than making it for a 16V head. Shape of the intake port is more or less similar. As you know shap of intake port of the other 8V heads are totally different. That's the main reason most intakes are not that good when they are installed into the 2.7L heads. I suppose basic 16V runners we are going to develop will also fit to 2.7L head easily, we just need to make attachment bolt pattern differently. Paul, not a bad idea at all. Car have a lot of parts which we bought from UK (from Alasdair in Scotland) We have expanded to the other side as well with my friend. We are going to develope a big brake kit for a another friend who is building another V8 E30 Beemer. At the moment he have a very nice white V8 E30 cab

Start of the Beemer brake project First we pressed in the bearings

And then E30 M3 5-lug hub with E46 rear disk

Test fit Boxster caliper

Then we measured dimensions for the adapters

Front end need some special parts to be able to use E36 5-lug hub

With 16" E30 M3 wheel there is a lot of space with Boxster caliper. Even Beemer 15" wheel will work. I suppose we are going to use bigger front calipers

 

[os951]

Project cars orginal front seats were in quite bad condition. Son have a complete 968 interior which is going to replace the original one. Someone asked me if this burgundy interior is for sale, so i decided to bring it back to live. Starting point

Cleaned and washed

Ready for sale.

Since Burgundy is not a color to go with we had to change carpet color as well. Some of the original carpets before the treatment.

Adding some carpet dye (Valeters Pride)

After two coats. Will need a third one. Burgundy is really difficult color to dye over with black.

 

[os951]

Before we can start bolt on under garriage parts, we just have to take care one cosmetic thing. Since we have a lot of red anodized parts (see color from pictures) our friend has made for us,

GAZ blue just won't fit. Because of that we put GAZ's to parts

and placed blue anodized parts to citric acid bath.

When anodized coating is removed, we will have parts re-anodized to same red as parts my friend have made for us. We also found out the original anodized blue was not that good, so we hope we can have also a better surface.

 

[944 man]

Id certainly travel to see it, but Id be even more interested in being able to buy some of the parts that Olli fitting here.