944S - First drive
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I had my first proper drive of the 944 this morning. After almost 2 years of Porsche ownership, I finally got a chance to drive it :)
You wouldn't believe it is a 17 year old car, everything is so solid. No rattles or squeaks. Everything works. I was very impressed. Ok, the engine should have been good, because it's brand new, but the rest of the car is still as sound as when it left the factory. The benefit of buying a one owner from new car I suppose.
I have a few cosmetic jobs to do on it to get it 100%, but they're really small things.
:)
James
You wouldn't believe it is a 17 year old car, everything is so solid. No rattles or squeaks. Everything works. I was very impressed. Ok, the engine should have been good, because it's brand new, but the rest of the car is still as sound as when it left the factory. The benefit of buying a one owner from new car I suppose.
I have a few cosmetic jobs to do on it to get it 100%, but they're really small things.
:)
James
It worked out ok. I made good progress when I first got the car. Dropped the engine out, then sourced almost everything that I needed for the new engine.
Then work got busy.
Then we had a baby.
Then my wife offered to have it put back together for me as a birthday present.
Kevin from EMC in Birmingham came and we wheeled it onto his trailer and shovelled the bits into his van.
2 weeks later (on Sunday actually) he drove it off his trailler and onto my drive. He's done an excellent job, and the car drives like new.
Very happy chap
Then work got busy.
Then we had a baby.
Then my wife offered to have it put back together for me as a birthday present.
Kevin from EMC in Birmingham came and we wheeled it onto his trailer and shovelled the bits into his van.
2 weeks later (on Sunday actually) he drove it off his trailler and onto my drive. He's done an excellent job, and the car drives like new.
Very happy chap
Congrats,
Ive had my 944s for around a month now and I havent driven my everyday car since buying it, although its a newer much more creature comforty I always go out in the morning wet or dry sunny or cloudy driving the Porsche out of the garage!.
Im made up with it and I wish all my next Porsche's (993 in the pipeline) are as good as this one is.
Happy Porsche driving I wish you years of major enjoyment.
Ive had my 944s for around a month now and I havent driven my everyday car since buying it, although its a newer much more creature comforty I always go out in the morning wet or dry sunny or cloudy driving the Porsche out of the garage!.
Im made up with it and I wish all my next Porsche's (993 in the pipeline) are as good as this one is.
Happy Porsche driving I wish you years of major enjoyment.
I put nearly 100,00 miles on an 86 944 turbo, a considerable amount of that on the track, and prior to that tracked a normally aspirated 944 for two years. The handling on that car was superb. on the turbo, I added turbo-S brakes and suspension, and with an Autothority chip, I could run with most turbo S's. BTW, the chip makes the car much nicer to drive on the street. The low-compression turbo is a slug until the boost comes in. The chip lowers the boost threshold by about 800 rpm. making the car much more responsive.
Yep, I never let the engine labour, even when I'm not running in. It means an awful lot of gear changes for that first 1,000 miles, as you've got to keep the revs in quite a narrow band.
I should have the miles done in a couple of weeks or so, and then I'll get the belt checked and the oil changed and off for a track day for a shakedown
I should have the miles done in a couple of weeks or so, and then I'll get the belt checked and the oil changed and off for a track day for a shakedown
Did you have the "normal" rebuild or one of his race engines?
He did mine at the beginning of the year and i had to run it in in 5 days to give me time to get the oil changed in it before heading of to the ring...
I've had 10K trouble free miles and its only been driven to tracks and around tracks!
He did mine at the beginning of the year and i had to run it in in 5 days to give me time to get the oil changed in it before heading of to the ring...
I've had 10K trouble free miles and its only been driven to tracks and around tracks!
I just had a normal rebuild. There was no point in getting a race tuned engine, as it's a road car that I'll take on the odd track day, not a track car. I want something that will be nice to drive on the road.
Track day driving for me is just a bit of fun. I'm not really that worried that my car isn't the fastest thing out there, as unless I spend some serious money, it won't be. When I go racing, it's a different matter though
The current plan is to get a 944 race car at some point and go racing again. However, I'll need to wait a while until my little lad is a bit less little, and I have some spare time (and he can be my unpaid pit crew). Of course, by that time, I may have decided to race something completely different.
Track day driving for me is just a bit of fun. I'm not really that worried that my car isn't the fastest thing out there, as unless I spend some serious money, it won't be. When I go racing, it's a different matter though
The current plan is to get a 944 race car at some point and go racing again. However, I'll need to wait a while until my little lad is a bit less little, and I have some spare time (and he can be my unpaid pit crew
). Of course, by that time, I may have decided to race something completely different.When I was talking to him a couple of weeks ago, he had 3 good spec second hand racers in. All up for about 5k each (although 2 of them sold pretty quickly). That's the cheapest way into it. Get somebody else to spend the cash, then reap the benefits.
When I started racing, a friend and I converted a road car into a racer. It took a season of running near the back to get the car competative, and we spent twice what it would have done to buy a ready made car of a similar spec. We did the work ourselves, so we were only paying for parts (labour cost would have doubled it again). My next car I bought secondhand (although I completely rebuilt it and did actually spend quite a bit of cash on it in the process).
It's definitely the cheapest way to go. The one advantage of converting the car yourself is that you know exactly what you're getting.
James
When I started racing, a friend and I converted a road car into a racer. It took a season of running near the back to get the car competative, and we spent twice what it would have done to buy a ready made car of a similar spec. We did the work ourselves, so we were only paying for parts (labour cost would have doubled it again). My next car I bought secondhand (although I completely rebuilt it and did actually spend quite a bit of cash on it in the process).
It's definitely the cheapest way to go. The one advantage of converting the car yourself is that you know exactly what you're getting.
James
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