What did you do to your 924/944 today
04-25-2020, 03:09 PM
#9241
Thank you Spencer - I live down in Franklin. My sons and I have been looking for a project car and found this 944 out in McMinnville for $1,000 so I brought it home and we are diving in. We had it started and running briefly but found DME Relay issues right away and the connectors to the reference sensors were disintegrated. Replacing them began a journey, but we're having a blast. Diving into brakes as well and we ripped out the interior. Going for a track car setup - I may hit you up for some parts along the way. I appreciate the offer - cheers!
04-25-2020, 10:03 PM
#9243
04-25-2020, 10:44 PM
#9244
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Finally had a nice day to give her a good detail. Went for two long drives afterwards. I've gotta get hatch pin seats to fix the rattling hatch, and figure out why the car likes to stall when turning left in U-Turns.
Quick Edit: Hahaha, post #9244 at 9:44PM
Last edited by Karl_W944; 04-25-2020 at 11:06 PM.
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04-26-2020, 03:24 PM
#9248
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From there it's recommended but not required to prime the bath with free zinc by adding 100g or so of Zinc Sulfate which can be found online. Otherwise you can let the solution naturally accumulate dissolved zinc as you use it, but adding the zinc sulfate is equivalent to throwing a pad of butter in your frying pan before cooking eggs.
For the anodes I use zinc roofing strips from the hardware store, 99.9% pure, and cut to length as needed to fit. I use an ancient Harrison 6203B power supply and try and keep 140 mA current going, per square inch of steel. That's the rule of thumb but really it will be a trial and error process to find what works best. Not much value in trying to measure your surface area and use a calculated value.... you can just visually fine tune as you go based on the deposition rate and color as well as bubbling.
If there is interest I suppose I could write a thread on the process, but a lot of this can also be found on other forums already from folks with a lot more experience doing it... this is just my DIY approximation.
Hi Rich, hope all is well! Can't PM on here, my inbox is full and it would take me ages to delete stuff to get it back down. Feel free to write me anytime over email or Facebook. Haven't been on here much as cars have taken a back seat recently to other stuff going on.
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04-27-2020, 12:25 AM
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04-28-2020, 03:25 PM
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Drove my '86 NA for the first time since finishing everything on the list. Wow... it's amazing how these cars can take such a mundane task as driving and make it FARFEGNUGEN!!! 
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04-28-2020, 07:04 PM
#9254
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Hi Steve, it's a pretty basic recipe that I adopted years ago from online searching. What I normally do is mix about 4.5 liters of clean water with 200ml of white vinegar in a plastic container. To that, add 300g of epsom salts (do not get the scented ones aimed at bath time, you want the most basic ones possible i.e. just the raw salt itself). You'll also want a brightener for cosmetic parts, the most effective option I've found outside of proprietary products is to add around 20 packets of artificial coffee sweeter, you want to find stuff with Sacharide.
From there it's recommended but not required to prime the bath with free zinc by adding 100g or so of Zinc Sulfate which can be found online. Otherwise you can let the solution naturally accumulate dissolved zinc as you use it, but adding the zinc sulfate is equivalent to throwing a pad of butter in your frying pan before cooking eggs.
For the anodes I use zinc roofing strips from the hardware store, 99.9% pure, and cut to length as needed to fit. I use an ancient Harrison 6203B power supply and try and keep 140 mA current going, per square inch of steel. That's the rule of thumb but really it will be a trial and error process to find what works best. Not much value in trying to measure your surface area and use a calculated value.... you can just visually fine tune as you go based on the deposition rate and color as well as bubbling.
If there is interest I suppose I could write a thread on the process, but a lot of this can also be found on other forums already from folks with a lot more experience doing it... this is just my DIY approximation.
Hi Rich, hope all is well! Can't PM on here, my inbox is full and it would take me ages to delete stuff to get it back down. Feel free to write me anytime over email or Facebook. Haven't been on here much as cars have taken a back seat recently to other stuff going on.
From there it's recommended but not required to prime the bath with free zinc by adding 100g or so of Zinc Sulfate which can be found online. Otherwise you can let the solution naturally accumulate dissolved zinc as you use it, but adding the zinc sulfate is equivalent to throwing a pad of butter in your frying pan before cooking eggs.
For the anodes I use zinc roofing strips from the hardware store, 99.9% pure, and cut to length as needed to fit. I use an ancient Harrison 6203B power supply and try and keep 140 mA current going, per square inch of steel. That's the rule of thumb but really it will be a trial and error process to find what works best. Not much value in trying to measure your surface area and use a calculated value.... you can just visually fine tune as you go based on the deposition rate and color as well as bubbling.
If there is interest I suppose I could write a thread on the process, but a lot of this can also be found on other forums already from folks with a lot more experience doing it... this is just my DIY approximation.
Hi Rich, hope all is well! Can't PM on here, my inbox is full and it would take me ages to delete stuff to get it back down. Feel free to write me anytime over email or Facebook. Haven't been on here much as cars have taken a back seat recently to other stuff going on.
Steve