Porsche 924 - My First Car 10 months on
Discussion
Just renewed my insurance for £585! A mere £50 voluntary excess and mods declared. I must be getting old!
Not this weekend but the next it will be having the Koni adjustables fitted along with the suspension lowering. Here's a photoshop mock-up:
Nothing too drastic as I want to enjoy driving it everyday, however the Koni's should improve upon the old shocks!
But I am having naughty ideas about some banded steels:
Not this weekend but the next it will be having the Koni adjustables fitted along with the suspension lowering. Here's a photoshop mock-up:
Nothing too drastic as I want to enjoy driving it everyday, however the Koni's should improve upon the old shocks!
But I am having naughty ideas about some banded steels:
It's a standard policy since I park it on the street and don't have another car.
It's not that original, the photographs are quite flattering too! I've fitted a 924 Turbo bonnet and the larger 944 rear spoiler. The decals are repro, it's had a respray in Zanussi white and the herringbone tweed interior is from an early car. I suppose I've cherry picked the best bits for it!
It's not that original, the photographs are quite flattering too! I've fitted a 924 Turbo bonnet and the larger 944 rear spoiler. The decals are repro, it's had a respray in Zanussi white and the herringbone tweed interior is from an early car. I suppose I've cherry picked the best bits for it!
FelixP said:
It's a standard policy since I park it on the street and don't have another car.
It's not that original, the photographs are quite flattering too! I've fitted a 924 Turbo bonnet and the larger 944 rear spoiler. The decals are repro, it's had a respray in Zanussi white and the herringbone tweed interior is from an early car. I suppose I've cherry picked the best bits for it!
Who do you insure with?It's not that original, the photographs are quite flattering too! I've fitted a 924 Turbo bonnet and the larger 944 rear spoiler. The decals are repro, it's had a respray in Zanussi white and the herringbone tweed interior is from an early car. I suppose I've cherry picked the best bits for it!
A lovely car and great to read about the road trips. I must do some more soon.
Ignore me if you've already seen these, but there are some decent quality stickers for your 924 here:
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/flystickers/Replacement-S...
I've ordered a fair few from him in the past and he's a top seller.
Car looks great as ever.
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/flystickers/Replacement-S...
I've ordered a fair few from him in the past and he's a top seller.
Car looks great as ever.
I'll definitely be down a breakfast meet soon!
Amusingly, my insurance is with Good Girl. It's part of Sabre and was the best deal.
Alex - I might have to look into those decals, mine are cheap repros which aren't on perfectly straight either.
Yesterday I visited a well known ride height altering establishment.
It started with these amazing cakes, and it was down from there, particularly for my car...
Got the car on the ground, with the lowering springs achieving a great drop to start with.
Initial plan was to drop the rear beam to reindex it or cut the sills and smash it out. Decided it was very cold and I wanted a driveable car, so had adjusted the eccentric bolt instead.
I said something about the exhaust being a weird angle...
Result:
For the first 5 minutes I thought I'd messed it up, but having driven back from Bristol and been for a good drive today, I'd never go back. It'll get a full alignment this week which should finish it off. I might get spacers for the rear in the meantime, or just get wheels?
The Koni's are old school, you have to fully compress the damper to engage the adjustment mechanism. They're set at 75% hard and I don't think I'll take them off to readjust.
A few purists in the 924 Club were crying themselves to sleep yesterday but If I was driving Luxembourg to Cardiff again, I'd have a lot more fun!
Amusingly, my insurance is with Good Girl. It's part of Sabre and was the best deal.
Alex - I might have to look into those decals, mine are cheap repros which aren't on perfectly straight either.
Yesterday I visited a well known ride height altering establishment.
It started with these amazing cakes, and it was down from there, particularly for my car...
Got the car on the ground, with the lowering springs achieving a great drop to start with.
Initial plan was to drop the rear beam to reindex it or cut the sills and smash it out. Decided it was very cold and I wanted a driveable car, so had adjusted the eccentric bolt instead.
I said something about the exhaust being a weird angle...
Result:
For the first 5 minutes I thought I'd messed it up, but having driven back from Bristol and been for a good drive today, I'd never go back. It'll get a full alignment this week which should finish it off. I might get spacers for the rear in the meantime, or just get wheels?
The Koni's are old school, you have to fully compress the damper to engage the adjustment mechanism. They're set at 75% hard and I don't think I'll take them off to readjust.
A few purists in the 924 Club were crying themselves to sleep yesterday but If I was driving Luxembourg to Cardiff again, I'd have a lot more fun!
Thanks all!
I'll probably do at least another Euro trip this year...
I took the car for full alignment today and after compliments on how clean it is underneath, they told me the rear camber on one of the wheels is way off. Because we lowered the rear on the eccentric bolts on the torsion bar, there is no adjustment left. I'm tempted to now get the rear torsion bars reindexed (I know a specialist who will do it for £200) and then it will match the front and it can be setup properly. The handling is the cars trump card thanks to it's lack of HP, it has been improved dramatically with the Koni shocks and I feel like it's worth now just getting this done and having it 100%.
Big Raff - These are 16x9 all round:
Lowered with Photoshop:
I could get 8's for the front and 9's for the rear.
Also edited to add:
I love the look of the deep dish wheels but I do wonder about keeping the standard ones (or some big minilites?) I seem to have a theme of subtle changes going on, with the 944 spoiler, turbo bonnet, early tweed seats, slight lowering etc and perhaps it would be best to continue down this path, having a sort of factory looking 924 which commands a second look to see the changes. Big dishy split rims could be an expensive and passing phase. I spend too much time thinking about it and my ideas do seem to change daily however!
I'll probably do at least another Euro trip this year...
I took the car for full alignment today and after compliments on how clean it is underneath, they told me the rear camber on one of the wheels is way off. Because we lowered the rear on the eccentric bolts on the torsion bar, there is no adjustment left. I'm tempted to now get the rear torsion bars reindexed (I know a specialist who will do it for £200) and then it will match the front and it can be setup properly. The handling is the cars trump card thanks to it's lack of HP, it has been improved dramatically with the Koni shocks and I feel like it's worth now just getting this done and having it 100%.
Big Raff - These are 16x9 all round:
Lowered with Photoshop:
I could get 8's for the front and 9's for the rear.
Also edited to add:
I love the look of the deep dish wheels but I do wonder about keeping the standard ones (or some big minilites?) I seem to have a theme of subtle changes going on, with the 944 spoiler, turbo bonnet, early tweed seats, slight lowering etc and perhaps it would be best to continue down this path, having a sort of factory looking 924 which commands a second look to see the changes. Big dishy split rims could be an expensive and passing phase. I spend too much time thinking about it and my ideas do seem to change daily however!
Edited by FelixP on Monday 21st January 17:39
FelixP said:
Thanks all!
I'll probably do at least another Euro trip this year...
I took the car for full alignment today and after compliments on how clean it is underneath, they told me the rear camber on one of the wheels is way off. Because we lowered the rear on the eccentric bolts on the torsion bar, there is no adjustment left. I'm tempted to now get the rear torsion bars reindexed (I know a specialist who will do it for £200) and then it will match the front and it can be setup properly. The handling is the cars trump card thanks to it's lack of HP, it has been improved dramatically with the Koni shocks and I feel like it's worth now just getting this done and having it 100%.
Big Raff - These are 16x9 all round:
Lowered with Photoshop:
I could get 8's for the front and 9's for the rear.
Also edited to add:
I love the look of the deep dish wheels but I do wonder about keeping the standard ones (or some big minilites?) I seem to have a theme of subtle changes going on, with the 944 spoiler, turbo bonnet, early tweed seats, slight lowering etc and perhaps it would be best to continue down this path, having a sort of factory looking 924 which commands a second look to see the changes. Big dishy split rims could be an expensive and passing phase. I spend too much time thinking about it and my ideas do seem to change daily however!
Keep with the standard ones I'll probably do at least another Euro trip this year...
I took the car for full alignment today and after compliments on how clean it is underneath, they told me the rear camber on one of the wheels is way off. Because we lowered the rear on the eccentric bolts on the torsion bar, there is no adjustment left. I'm tempted to now get the rear torsion bars reindexed (I know a specialist who will do it for £200) and then it will match the front and it can be setup properly. The handling is the cars trump card thanks to it's lack of HP, it has been improved dramatically with the Koni shocks and I feel like it's worth now just getting this done and having it 100%.
Big Raff - These are 16x9 all round:
Lowered with Photoshop:
I could get 8's for the front and 9's for the rear.
Also edited to add:
I love the look of the deep dish wheels but I do wonder about keeping the standard ones (or some big minilites?) I seem to have a theme of subtle changes going on, with the 944 spoiler, turbo bonnet, early tweed seats, slight lowering etc and perhaps it would be best to continue down this path, having a sort of factory looking 924 which commands a second look to see the changes. Big dishy split rims could be an expensive and passing phase. I spend too much time thinking about it and my ideas do seem to change daily however!
Edited by FelixP on Monday 21st January 17:39
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