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Old 08-16-2005, 09:56 PM
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Campeck--- Starions/Conquests lean out at cylinders 1 & 4 becasue of that reason. I think they call it a "wet intake manifold" and thats cause those POS are TBI. Oh well
Old 08-16-2005, 10:33 PM
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really? conquests use TBI as well? cool...kinda...

yeah. the intakes werent designed to carry a "wet" mixtures so fuel distribution goes down the drain.

those ronals DO look schnazzy. cept for the words ronal on em. that could be machined off. and painted to match car. woo....do you have four of them?
Old 08-16-2005, 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by AznDrgn
Clint- This is the first set of these I've seen as well. They are 2 piece Ronal wheels and that is about all I know about them. Not really sure if I like them or not but I guess I'll figure that out once I get it all done and get ready to drive the car.
I assume you have the 4th right? If so, heck...I'd polish the outside lip and paint the centers to match the car! It would look great.

They remind me of a car that had similar wheels but I just ...cannot..... remember the name!

Do you have more pictures of the interior? The center console interesting....

Nice Car...I love it!
Old 08-16-2005, 11:17 PM
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That thing is incredibly cool! How many of those are around? How did you get ahold of that one?
Old 08-16-2005, 11:20 PM
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I remember seeing a pic of someone's slant nose 911 (don't remember which gen it was, sorry) with those wheels...
Old 08-16-2005, 11:26 PM
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i want some....trade for my ronals?
Old 08-16-2005, 11:32 PM
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...160402355&rd=1

If you check out this link ( I posted a thread about this a while back)....I think this is what you have!

Good luck...neat find!

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Old 08-16-2005, 11:37 PM
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Originally Posted by shmucklebuckle
I remember seeing a pic of someone's slant nose 911 (don't remember which gen it was, sorry) with those wheels...
here you go
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Old 08-16-2005, 11:56 PM
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Very nice Porsche! It's a GTL (with the optional Callaway turbo kit!!!!) built with Porsches approval buy Kurrus Motor Works. Interestingly, it looks like you've got the uber rare and super light Ronal racing rims that came on Callaway's and optional on this. The dash guages have been upgraded, well modified some... Since this is fully optioned out, it could well have had those guages too. The original GTL had a 911 tach in there!

Here is the GTL press release info on it from way back when - enjoy and keep us posted to everything you do with it! Majorly kewl historical find !! >>
http://www.thompsonsmithdesign.com/i...s/GTL/GTL.html

Also, here are photos I took of a 944 Callaway turbo about four or five years ago in Williston, VT. I had these posted to my old website or posted them to rennlist digest way back when. This turbo was for sale on a local (now out of business) high end car dealership called Auto Motives. They were asking around $10k for it.>> http://www.thompsonsmithdesign.com/i.../Callaway.html

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Old 08-17-2005, 12:07 AM
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Ronel has been making similar style wheels for a long time

http://www.ronalusa.com/wheels/r10.html



Hey Campeck, your R9 wheel is listed as discontinued.

http://www.ronalusa.com/wheels/r9.html



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Old 08-17-2005, 12:14 AM
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thats not my rim at all!

its like ....a look a like with all the edges less prominent and flat. freaky.
Old 08-17-2005, 12:29 AM
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Since the Pix got hosted before I could get to it I put this page together with the photos. (Click the photos for Bigger Images)

http://www.marx7.org/%7Edsmith/944gtr.htm

If you want to email me updates and any comments I can post them as I get the time.

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Old 08-17-2005, 12:50 AM
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Sweet find man, good luck getting it sorted out.
Old 08-17-2005, 01:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Campeck
oh. i know. thats exactly what i meant!

what it might do is get more gas to one cylinder that some of the others. so another cylinder might run less rich that the others. like. it the weight of the gas might all go back to cylinder 4 and leave cylinder one with a lean mixture at boost.

they said in the article knock was a problem and thats why they cut the compression down. it could have been a contributing factor i guess.

still an effin cool car though
conversely, wouldn't fuel, which has a high vapor pressure, being injected into the manifold cause a cooling effect, therefore meaning a denser charge?
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Yeah, the fuel creates a considerable cooling effect. The main issue is being too lean, not neccesarily too hot and creating knock. It's hard to tell what they did to deal with turbocharging. By todays standards anything they did, was half ***. For then it was all new tech and the best they could do. Hell, the world is just now learning how to work with The Motronic system, Bosch kills anyone that knows anything about it from what I'm told. Back then I'm sure it was like pulling teeth to get anything out of them for remapping, dealing with boost, tuning etc. There are newer, better designed and advance piggyback systems to deal with such things as knock, auxilliary fuel and ignition. I'm not sure what your plan is as far as keep it as it was built or update it. Either way it's cool as hell. I'd almost have to go back to what it was built as. Bet you'd never think to hear ME say that, lol.
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