JayRogers

Ok so I'm not sure if it's called a bellhousing or not, but I was removing the engine from a spare 87 944na and while unbolting the starter I noticed there was a man made chunk taken out of the flywheel assembly housing... bellhouse? (Whatever) It was almost directly before the starter on the bottom. I would guess it was cut out with a small circular saw, there are still marks where it cut but didn't cut through the metal - rather sloppy.

Is there any reason this would be there or that someone would intentionally cut a hole in at area?

Thanks

V2Rocket

someone might have dropped a bolt into the inspection hole next to the reference sensors and cut the hole there to get it out

KuHL 951

Must be 968 bellhousing envy. Doesn't sound like a good thing though having debris getting in that hole.

JayRogers

Thanks! It's raining now so when it stops and I go back out to work on it I'll take a picture an show you so you can all scratch your heads with me and say WTF!

Mighty Shilling

I'll say WTF anyway.

WTF?!

V2Rocket

maybe you could put some duct tape over the hole while u drive around and it would catch dirt n stuff in the BH lol

FRporscheman

Just change the bellhousing, it's super easy.........................................................

cokeloop

probably looks something like this?:



I'm looking to get this done within a few weeks too, on this pic a member of Porsche Club Norway did this for the same reason I'm going to, to access the "referance-screw" on the flywheel, wich in my case is missing, without having to lift the engine out..

JayRogers

That's pretty much what mine looks like except imagine Freddy Kruger hacked it to death. Goes right to the edge of the housing.