ian89C4

Gents,

First time posting on the water cooled side of the forum for my own purposes, so here it goes.

I am going pick up a recent purchase I made a while ago this weekend in the form of a 1981 924 Weissach edition (don't know the production number yet). I am getting the car pretty cheap, so it is with some issues. Everything is sound, but two PO's prior had tried to put weber's on in place of the injection system - needless to say he could not get it to work. The guy I bought it from just didn't have time to work on it and decided to sell it. I can't resist a old sports car, and the price was right.

He has the injection system for it, which I will put back on. The one thing that he did sell off of the old girl was the exhaust system. Here is my question -

Does anyone here either have, or know where I can get, a reasonably priced exhaust manifold?? (I have other plans for the rest of the exhaust)

No laughing at her as she is without her front bumper (present, just not on the car) but here is the obligatory picture with the first post.

Thanks in advance!!!

ernie9468

Welcome to rennlist , help will come from those guys www.924board.org if you own an early 924 it's a must.Also google (garage.ideola.com) they are the experts when it come to early 924.Ideola specialize in 924/931 has both new & use hard to find parts for them.GL with your project.

ian89C4

Awesome, thank you!!!

I am usually over on the 964 side, so this water cooled stuff is new to me. The Most under appreciated Porsche's I think!!

Cheers

ernie9468

Lol I should had said (welcome to the pond) , Ideola had an exhaust manifold for sale not long ago for a 2.0 ltr migth still have it ,price was $65.00.You can give him a call or pm.Don't know if is back from Florida bougth himself a 924 GTS I beleive & is driving her up .

thirdgenbird

did this car have a cracked manifold? if so, i believe i nearly bought it last time it was for sale...

i still have some pictures that may identify it. if it is the same car, a portion of its life is documented over on 924board.org and i can get you in touch with the prior owner.

ian89C4

thirdgenbird -

That would be awesome! The car does not have any of the exhaust components, PO said they were sold, so I can't say what actually happened to them.

I have not been up to see the car, but the price point was a win win situation even if the car has too many issues. I will have more info after this weekend.

Did the engine look like this - talking about the red header.....

moorepower

Wow, that is the most beautiful car I have ever seen!! You are obviously getting an awesome deal. The guy who is selling it to you must be the greatest man who ever lived!!






See you Saturday.

ideola

Just made it back from Florida, and I do still have that stock 924 NA manifold available. Shoot me an email or PM if you have any questions!

ian89C4

Dan,

I figured you were on here somewhere......

Thought I would go fishing


See you Saturday

thirdgenbird

looks like it was a diferent ride or someone has changed a lot since last june. here is the carbed 81 WSE i looked at. if i recall, it ran but needed tuned and had a cracked manifold (i never saw it in person)

V2Rocket

bird, i am in love with the interior of that car..do you know what cars came with the cloth seats/doors? a WSE thing?

thirdgenbird

ive only ever seen them on a WSE but i am not a 924 expert. Dan (ideola) can probably field the question.


i really regret not buying that car...

ideola

Yeah, as far as I know, that was the standard interior for the WSE cars. I've seen similar material in other cars, but the only ones I've ever seen with the two-tone like that were the WSEs.

moorepower

Sadly, that is the same car. The guy who sold it to me used the top picture you posted, along with several other very nice pictures, to advertise the car. Since I was a few states away, I largely based my decision to purchase it on those pictures. But, it turned out that those pictures were about 5 years old, and the condition of the car had gone downhill quite a bit in those 5 years. I was less than amused.

......and the "tuning" that it needed turned out to be a head gasket.

Oh well, lesson learned about long distance vehicle purchase.

moorepower

Dude, you dodged a bullet.