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Just a picture that I took today and thought looked cool.
I may be picking up a turbo motor that blew it's balance shaft, this weekend. It sounds like the shafts journals are shot, but for $200, it will be money well spent for the head and internals. I originally wanted to swap the motor out for a VAG unit I already have built, but I am leaning towards sticking it out with Porsche now. It should be a fun turbo setup build over the winter.
I pushed the car aside for the winter and past few months, in order to build my TT into something a little wild...
I did convert the car to coilovers all around before calling it 'good'.
I have been happy with it, and it had seemed to be pretty reliable. I bought a set of wheels for it a while back, but ram into nothing but trouble trying to re-lip them to fit the car better. I finally sorted the issues out, and am currently waiting for a custom set of wheel halves to be made for the rear wheels. My interest it modding the car has started building again...
The goal was to mount the wheels, then start prepping it for paint, then this happened.
There was a rock in the road, and it had it's way with my pan. I did shut it off immediately, so there wasn't any damage caused. The new gasket showed up today, and I was planning to simply swap the pan out... Turns out it's a fairly involved process. I don't have any doubts about making it happen, but it has brought up the question of why.? Why unbolt the motor and the entire lower front end of the car to perform a repair on a motor that is far from fulfilling.?
I have another option just collecting dust in my garage. I built a 2.2 forged internal 16v VW motor years ago. It was for a project that disappeared with a past life. It's been sealed up since then. Just sitting without ever turning under is own power.
I have nearly everything needed to finish off the swap. I have the full support and encouragement from my wife. Believe it or not, it was with her push that the decision was made to get started on making it happen! Almost seems foolish to pass up the current opportunity to start making it happen.
I will start removing the Porsche motor tomorrow. With nearly everything sitting in my garage, I hope to make fast progress, and will post pictures as I go.
Matt, sorry to hear of your unintended encounter. Unfortunately, that is often times the by-product of running a 944 with 23" ground-to-fender clearance on the street.
Have you done anything to correct the ball joint geometry? Depending on how spiritedly you drive on the street/track, due to the current suspension geometry, those ball joints could bind and eventually fail over time. Do you have any issues with lack of suspension travel/front end hopping over less-than-smooth pavement?
Exactly why I won't do a coil over swap or lower my car. To me it not only ruins the look of the car but it ruins the balanced handling. Glad you were able to shut the engine down in time. Hope no debris got in there. Now is a good time to check and replace the rod and main bearings if necessary.
I disagree with your ruining the car when being lowered.
I couldn't be happier with the way it sits.
It doesn't scrape anywhere during my daily drives. This was an incident of debris on the roadway. The car feels better at this height that the factory ride height.
I do have balljoint extenders, for geometry correction. Yes minimal travel, but zero wheel hop.
It's ironic that I'm looking forward to moving from my Audi TT with it's shorter (factory) profile tires to the taller profile tires that came on 944s. I have had to have the wheels on my TT repaired twice due to road damage.
My 944 is lowered about 1" on Bilstein coilovers with Eibach springs... it's not as low as Forty-six but I've never had problems. Speed bumps, driveways, etc... never scraped.
I am thinking hockey pucks on the crossmember or Kevlar sport bike knee pucks for some spark action bolted up on each side near the front lca mount
I lost a pan on a sewer lid at the bottom of a dip on my first car...it happens. you could swap something in but I would get a used pan and go..the windage inset probably busted up
A friend and I took off the oil pan on his 86 without lifting up the motor. If I remember right, we dropped the control arms, crossmember, undid motor mounts, and a few other things. It was enough clearance. Some sketchy supports were used, would not recommend if you have access to a hoist but you do have options.
I year, 1300 miles, Koni dampers and double adjustable qa1 rear, 450 lb and 600 lb springs, Stock sway bars. I'm 100% satisfied with the setup, could use sway bar upgrades. I love the look and feel.
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