h011yw00d

Way to go, man! Makes me miss my old 928. Always something else on the list to do. I think I have an extra shifter **** (PO pulled it with the boot) that came with my car if you want it for shipping. Just PM me the deets. Good luck, man!

Brent '85 944/1

Thanks! I'm really falling in love with this car, it's such a great machine. I PM'd you for the shift ****. Makes my life way easier, and the perfectionist in me very satisfied... I'm a graphic designer and animator by day, so the small details are extra important to me.

Tiger03447

Dear Brent: I'm glad that you're on the list and welcome! I have been rebuilding a1983 944 from a non-running hulk. I made a mistake when I first started the rebuild...what I did was that I put the rebuild (mostly ) on credit cards gouging me a lot of $$ on interest fees. When I first started I thought it wouldn't take as long as it did, thinking I would be done with it in a year or so. It's been 8 years now...and it is still not running. Long story short. Go to the bank, get a personal note for about 20K. That will set your budget. AND if you have good credit, you can get the $$ for maybe 5-10 percent. This will save you lots of headaches and interest fees. I finally did this, paid off a whole bunch of $$ in credit cards. After the car is running, perhaps you can get a car loan and pay off the personal note. I'm sure that you've possibly looked at this aspect of owning/restoring a Porsche. Just trying to save you additional headaches/heartaches and many dollars...Hopefully this tale of woe will be to your advantage.

Brent '85 944/1

Haha thanks for the advice @Tiger03447 . Luckily I bought it running, and it's a second car for me, so I'm only doing things as I have the $ for it, and I paid in cash upfront for this one...I also learned this the hard way on my other car, a rustbucket of a HJ-61 Land cruiser that I'm currently doing a brake job on so I can drive it down I-70 where labor is (way) cheaper than Denver, and get about $5k of rust repair and paint done.

Jmag21

Good looking car. I just moved to Denver and I have been working on my 944 for a couple years. IM me if you want to get together sometime.

Tiger03447

Glad you got one that was still running. Great looking car. Good luck with it.We're al;ways here to help.

16again2009

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...-diagrams.html

Here is a good post for the electrical part of your sunroof. They is also a link in it showing how to repair the mechanical parts.
Clarke's garage also has a good write up.

16again2009

White is not my favorite color either, but if I had one I would put a set of martini racing decals on it.

Brent '85 944/1

That's a great resource @16again2009, I hadn't ran across that one yet. I had run across the mechanical link, but unfortunately a ton of parts are broken – I think all 3 cables are snapped, probably due to the drive dog being broken off/missing from the main cable, which (I'm guessing) caused the motor to not shut off at some point and strip/snap the cables. I can find the main cable/drive dog, but haven't found a good source for the lifting arms/cables.

I know for certain that the main cable going to the motor is snapped, and I'm pretty sure both cables to the individual lifting arms are snapped – at least there's nothing to engage with the exposed coil in the white transfer box. When I pulled the lifting arm assemblies apart, there was only ~3-4 inches of cable attached and I'm guessing the rest of this is stuck inside the rails, and I didn't have anything on hand to try to push them out.