AznDrgn

Well my newly acquired Callaway 944 is now officially running on it's own. All I had to do was put the reference sensors back, swap the DME with another one I had, clean the DME relay and it fired right up. I haven't had a chance to drive the car yet so I have no idea how it really is or if the turbo is any good but with the fully open exhaust that motor sure does sound nasty. I don't currently have any place to post pictures so if anyone has space and can post for me that would be great or else I will be happy to send them to anyone who wants to see it. Incidently I was looking through some other Callaway documentation and there is an article in Car in Driver from the fall of '84 which pictures a car that looks identical to the one I now own. Out o fthe 38 produced I doubt that any 2 look alike so I'm pretty sure it's the same one from car and driver. Anyways I just thought I'd share my excitement.

Dean924s

Email them to me I can out them up on my site and / or so they can be viewed here.

Ohya my email is dsmith@radio.fm

Congrats on the car!!!!


Respectfully

Dean

AznDrgn

Here is the link the to Car and driver article, I'm 99% sure that the car pictured is the one sitting in my driveway right now.

Techno Duck

Send a letter to Car and Driver asking if they can verify it. Perhaps they can do a '20 year later followup' on it.

AznDrgn

That's a great idea but I think it'd have to wait a while since I'd be ashamed to show the car in it's current shape.

testarossa_td

Nice car.
Click to see article

Porsche-O-Phile

Good to hear man! I'll soon be putting mine under the knife as well. Actually there's an original one a guy out in Hemet has that I'll go check out probably this weekend. Might even buy it but I think his price is too high. Good job, can't wait to discuss further with you. . .

michaelathome

Here are a few of the pics of Danny's car.












Nice find Danny,

Michael

Campeck

why is the fuel rail tied into the intake?

Clint's 944

What's the scoop on the wheels...never seen them before?

AznDrgn

Campeck- 5th injector to keep from leaning out under boost.

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.

Campeck

whoa....can you say. "intake manifold not designed to carry gas and air"
lol! no wonder they were having problems with knock at 8psi.
pretty sweet car. cant wait to hear about it!

AznDrgn

Campeck can you explain your reasoning behind why you think the intake carrying fuel and air mix causes knock? I'm not really trying to defend the way Callaway compensated for fuel because with todays technology that is just a half *** way of doing it but back in the day it was pretty damn good.

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

Serge944

That car is quite a score. Very cool.

And wow, Ronal wheels that actually look great!