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Here it is. My shitbox.
It's a 1983 Porsh 944 that I picked up from a pawn shop on an extremely hot day from a greasy looking guy in a turtle neck. That should say just about everything about what to expect from this car.
It has tires and some metal panels and an engine that, surprisingly, runs. It's the wonderful color of a peeled banana. What more do you need?
The first order of business was, of course, breaking the only thing it had going for it...
The water pump crapped out and fortunately didn't snap the timing belt (a death sentence for these cars). So no more running motor.
I figured since I was planning on swapping the engine out I should replace it with a part that could be used on the new engine as well. So in went a Davies Craig electric water pump.
The shifter was sloppier than a, uh... well, 30 year old shifter, so I fixed that up.
For anyone with a car that uses a shaft-in-tube connection on the shifter you can grind out the shaft and replace it with a bolt and needle bearings on either side to fix it right up. I took the opportunity to weld on a long stainless bolt to convert over to a pool ball as well.
Also installed a short shift kit on the transaxle. The slightly longer shift arm brings it closer to the wheel and the short shift tightens everything up. It's a night and day difference in shift speed and quality.
Gutted the interior and any unneeded weight including the water soaked carpet, carpet padding, interior panels, rear seats, AC, heater, window washer, headlight motor, wiring, etc. and started scraping the hardened glue out.
I'm going to take a moment to pause and commend the man in charge of glue distribution at the factory. I hope your career in glue, and subsequent career directing bukake porn, served you well. PS, I **** you, that shit is everywhere.
Scored an entire suspension system from the junk yard out of an '87 944 NA. The 87 and later NA cars had the strongest spindles of all the years and is made of aluminum and not the bendy noodle steel that the '83 has.
Snatched up this rare Zender 924 spoiler which I personally love but others don't really seem to get.
Just look at that sweet sweet factory rear stance! So spot on.
A guy in Guam sold me some old HRE 526 wheels that I promptly tore apart to refinish and haven't come back around to (more on why, later).
Even found the old catalog from the 90s.
Continued doing boring glue scraping and other mundane wiring tasks
PLOT TWIST !!!!!!
Got a screaming deal on a set of 968 GT2 fender flares...
This story just got more interesting...
Continuing on, I got an awesome Renown black 100 that I mounted on a NRG quick release and short hub adapter.
and started filling the holes in the old dash to make a buck to pull a fiberglass or carbon race dash.
It will hold the original gauge cluster but I replaced the 80s black and yellow 944 gauges with some beautiful black/white/red 924 gauges.
Also got a battery disconnect fabbed up. I may end up having to revise it a bit but it supports the hood mount pull as well as one that will be on the dash between the wheel and the driver window. The mount will be under the console of the dash when it's complete but still reachable inside the car. I've heard horror stories of racers at the track getting all strapped in and forgetting to throw it to the on position (it was mounted under the hood) and missing their grid because of it.
HOLY MOTHER OF SHIT!! PLOT TWIST #2!!!!
After much back and forth, a guy on a Facebook group sold me a set of 968 fenders that mount 993 headlights, as well as a 968 hood!
That might make the question marks in the thread title make a bit more sense, lol. What a frankenporsche this is becoming!
Anyway, I'm going to stop here for now. There are more parts I've horded and plans that I will share later but I'll keep some suspense going.
So ya... GT2 widebody 924/944/968/993 hybrid. Let the fun begin and the dollars fly out of my pocket!
It's a 1983 Porsh 944 that I picked up from a pawn shop on an extremely hot day from a greasy looking guy in a turtle neck. That should say just about everything about what to expect from this car.
It has tires and some metal panels and an engine that, surprisingly, runs. It's the wonderful color of a peeled banana. What more do you need?
The first order of business was, of course, breaking the only thing it had going for it...
The water pump crapped out and fortunately didn't snap the timing belt (a death sentence for these cars). So no more running motor.
I figured since I was planning on swapping the engine out I should replace it with a part that could be used on the new engine as well. So in went a Davies Craig electric water pump.
The shifter was sloppier than a, uh... well, 30 year old shifter, so I fixed that up.
For anyone with a car that uses a shaft-in-tube connection on the shifter you can grind out the shaft and replace it with a bolt and needle bearings on either side to fix it right up. I took the opportunity to weld on a long stainless bolt to convert over to a pool ball as well.
Also installed a short shift kit on the transaxle. The slightly longer shift arm brings it closer to the wheel and the short shift tightens everything up. It's a night and day difference in shift speed and quality.
Gutted the interior and any unneeded weight including the water soaked carpet, carpet padding, interior panels, rear seats, AC, heater, window washer, headlight motor, wiring, etc. and started scraping the hardened glue out.
I'm going to take a moment to pause and commend the man in charge of glue distribution at the factory. I hope your career in glue, and subsequent career directing bukake porn, served you well. PS, I **** you, that shit is everywhere.
Scored an entire suspension system from the junk yard out of an '87 944 NA. The 87 and later NA cars had the strongest spindles of all the years and is made of aluminum and not the bendy noodle steel that the '83 has.
Snatched up this rare Zender 924 spoiler which I personally love but others don't really seem to get.
Just look at that sweet sweet factory rear stance! So spot on.
A guy in Guam sold me some old HRE 526 wheels that I promptly tore apart to refinish and haven't come back around to (more on why, later).
Even found the old catalog from the 90s.
Continued doing boring glue scraping and other mundane wiring tasks
PLOT TWIST !!!!!!
Got a screaming deal on a set of 968 GT2 fender flares...
This story just got more interesting...
Continuing on, I got an awesome Renown black 100 that I mounted on a NRG quick release and short hub adapter.
and started filling the holes in the old dash to make a buck to pull a fiberglass or carbon race dash.
It will hold the original gauge cluster but I replaced the 80s black and yellow 944 gauges with some beautiful black/white/red 924 gauges.
Also got a battery disconnect fabbed up. I may end up having to revise it a bit but it supports the hood mount pull as well as one that will be on the dash between the wheel and the driver window. The mount will be under the console of the dash when it's complete but still reachable inside the car. I've heard horror stories of racers at the track getting all strapped in and forgetting to throw it to the on position (it was mounted under the hood) and missing their grid because of it.
HOLY MOTHER OF SHIT!! PLOT TWIST #2!!!!
After much back and forth, a guy on a Facebook group sold me a set of 968 fenders that mount 993 headlights, as well as a 968 hood!
That might make the question marks in the thread title make a bit more sense, lol. What a frankenporsche this is becoming!
Anyway, I'm going to stop here for now. There are more parts I've horded and plans that I will share later but I'll keep some suspense going.
So ya... GT2 widebody 924/944/968/993 hybrid. Let the fun begin and the dollars fly out of my pocket!
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