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Old 09-08-2015, 02:47 PM
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Maintenance on a 308 Ferrari makes a 944 Porsche seems like a chevy. Still love to have one. Even if it takes 40 hours just to do a timing belt.
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Originally Posted by marc abrams
Maintenance on a 308 Ferrari makes a 944 Porsche seems like a chevy. Still love to have one. Even if it takes 40 hours just to do a timing belt.
Actually that's not the case at all. 308 timing belt changes are done easily through the rear-passenger side wheel well. Ditto for the clutch on the other side. Get rid of the sodium-filled valves that came on the 2V models and the engine is much more robust than a 944 could ever be.
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Originally Posted by marc abrams
Maintenance on a 944 makes a Ferrari 308 seem like a MOPAR.
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and now that all's proper, are you on my friends list yet?
Old 09-08-2015, 06:23 PM
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You might own a 944 if you keep searching in other cars for the special way only a 944 can cause a gentle wind swirl at your left temple when the window is down.
You might own a 944 when you are forever amazed at what the car can do. After years of driving, on the track and street, it brakes and handles, can move a small apartment worth of belongings, get through snow storms, get good gas mileage and out run a most higher performance cars on the road but it doesnt have a speed limiter, at least my car didnt. Of course the BMW MZ3 pulled away from me but its like it hit wall at around 200kph, I just got out of 4th gear then.
On the track my slightly modified 951 was track champion for 3 years, earning some respect from the 930s.
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If you like Mopar, you are my friend!

That Daytona of mine is one of the easiest car's to work on. Parts are dirt cheap too, twenty bucks for a water pump.

A 308 owner told me the timing belt took 40 hours to change. I met him at a car meet. He was a real nice guy and I didn't think he was making stuff up.
Old 09-08-2015, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Dubai944
- you have to explain to a wheel alignment shop how to adjust the rear suspension
This.
Old 09-09-2015, 02:02 AM
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Should I? Should you?

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....or Guard's Red???

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You enjoy people asking you what year your 80's Ferrari is...
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The maintenance guy at my old apartment complex legitimately thought it was a Ferrari for almost 2 years. He would always drive past in his gator-cart and say hello whenever I was wrenching on it, and one day he said "man, I love that ferrari ***." It took me a minute, I don't think he ever read the badge...
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if you install a short stroke LS7 and you run out of fuel on the dyno at 4000 rpm....

https://rennlist.com/forums/968-foru...-968-a-31.html

how do we fix this prolllem?


Originally Posted by JDS968
I was actually considering putting it (jap LS400 engine) into the 968, once upon a time.

when you drive it..... like,

you see like these little spaces like 2, 3000 feet up the road......

and it goes right where you point it....

like you're playing a video game speeding straight to (as near as makes no difference) 200(mph).


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