Tom M'Guinn

Anyone know of any quality kits to convert a 944/951 body to a 968 body?

User 41221

I can't remember if its GT Racing or AIR that offers it, but I know that one of them does. HTH

Regards,

944J

http://www.albertweb.de/Porsche/Karo...erHecklook.htm

http://clubautosport.co.uk/latest_944_conversion.htm

Bones944

Any other source for the skirts?

Cass944

they have them on albertweb.

http://clubautosport.co.uk/the_shop/...all_models.htm

por944trs

Just to warn you Albert has great products , but doen't seem to care to do business with us here in the US. GTracing and AIR both have discontinued production of their kits. Tried to go down this road last year and got nowhere. Hope you fair better.

Bones944

I have a friend in London, maybe he could buy a set and ship them to me. I'll check with him.

TonD

www.v-zweeden.com has plenty of fiberglass/carbonfiber stuff, he's in The Netherlands (where I live :P ) but he'll ship anywhere, even to Mars, dunno rates though (shipping from Holland to US would be WAY expensive...)

Under Pressure Performance

Or, you can do the conversion with mostly factory 968 parts. We have lots of fenders, front and rear bumper covers, tail lights, bumper cover supports and so on.

I am currently converting a 951 to a 968 using this method and things will come together quite easily. To make the conversion a LOT easier, I am using the front most chassis section of a 968. This allows you to bolt the front fender on as if the car were a factory 968. Everything lines up perfectly.

I know of another person doing a conversion using just sheet aluminum and some tubing to fabricate all the pickup/fastening points.

Again, we have a few pairs of fenders, several front and rear bumper covers, rear lights, and so on.

Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

Tom M'Guinn

Scott, what is involved in installing the "front most chassis section" of a 968? Is that a cut and weld with an empty engine bay kind of thing?

Under Pressure Performance

It is relatively simple and straigtforward - Imagine on a turbo car, the front coolant manifold, under the coolant manifold mounting plates is a small locating hole on each side - You can use that hole to measure from. It works best to cut the frame rail extensions just before, or just after (depending how you look at it) that hole and use it as a point of reference. The simply weld the 968 front extension in its place.

The job is MUCH easier with the engine out as you can grind the welds and repaint the welded areas with relative ease, but it can be done with the engine in place, you just need to be sure you cover everything from all the metal filings and you will make the cut a bit more forward, but otherwise the process is the same.

Hope that helps - Please feel free to let me know if you need any body parts, and remember that NOTHING fits like the factory parts. Oh, and just food for thought, the 968 fenders, though much larger than the 944 fenders, are actually lighter.

951and944S

I had a friend in the UK check out CAS for me about a year ago. He said he called several times per day before anyone even answered the phone and when he did get someone the person he talked to "didn't instill much confidence" according to him, whom I'd call a knowledgeable car enthusiast.

As an extra measure he check with some British Porsche Club members and got a few stories from disgruntled customers. The president of the club suggested that I source the parts from somewhere else.

Now things change, this was a year ago, just a heads up.

Van Zweeden themselves told me that they virtually have to hand deliver parts to the harbor for shipping and it cost as much to ship a bumper cover as the price of the part itself.

I also heard from Konstantin that the parts look way better on the website than in person...but don't they always....?

I've yet to get a Whopper like the one BK shows on TV.....

TS

Scootin159

Trust me...you don't want that whopper you see on TV. Those generally aren't cooked but rather just painted to look cooked, and other tricks like that. Ice cream on TV is normally Crisco and stuff like that.

porshhhh951

lol....ewwwww

944J

also the 968 rear on the albert web isnt a real 968. just look at the top seam.... and for the logo... and how it mates to the fenders...