Awsome engine. Tarhell IMHO asking for the answer to a questoin you do not know is not ignorent its smart, not knowing somthing and never askin/finding the answer is true ignorence

 

Michelle that looks awesome, just one this did you wrap the headers with the heat shields on?

 

Where is the pic of the side with the turbo?

It looks like she wrapped it with heat shields on.

 

I did. Is that wrong? The engine is going in sans the headers. I'll put them in later (forgot to get the thermal coating spray - will do it today).

Thanx for the support guys!

 

No problem to wrap the shields.

It is much much much quicker to install with the headers and cross-over installed than to put them on after engine is in the car.

 

Cool. Thanx

 

ok...WTF is a catch can.......?

 

This is from the Lindsey site:

"Crank Breather Tank Kits for 944 / 944T
Another first from Lindsey Racing for the 944's. A remote bolt on crank case breather kit for stock machines to race cars.

Venting your crank case back into the engine is great for emmissions, but not for optimum performance. All serious race cars have seperate catch cans for oil vapor. Why?

1) Oil vapor does not burn. When your engine is pumping or inhaling oil vapor, it is displacing a certain percentage of air/fuel mixture. The more blow-by you have, the more air/fuel your displacing. This means your not getting 100% air/fuel into the cylinders. Removing the crank case breather from the intake system will eliminate this problem.

2) Oil vapor reduces the octane rating of your fuel. Oil vapor causes problems in a naturally aspirated engine, but is twice as bad on a turbo chaged one, where octane rating is critical. If your running 93 octane pump gas and injecting oil/air vapor into your combustion chamber along with your fuel, then you no longer have 93 octane fuel. How much is un-certain, but it may mean the difference between detonation and no detonation. Better safe then sorry.

3) When you suck all that oil into your turbo, and into your engine, you can clog your cat, coke up the turbo, and even knock the ring lands out of your pistons as it did on the turbo Mustang and Pontiac.

Does this mean that a remote crank case breather can make HP? Does this mean that a remote crank case breather can help keep from blowing a head gasket? The answer to both questions is "YES"!

We studied the engine compartment for a good installation location. There is not much room anywhere when you have all the stock systems such as cruise control, washer fluid tank and all the other goodies Porsche packed under the hood. We also wanted to make the hose a short run to the connection at the oil separator. We felt the best location is where you see it. It interferes with nothing and makes for a very clean appearance for those who like the a tidy engine compartment along with function."