If have been slowly rebuilding the engine to my '83 944 and am looking at the Porsche Factory Repair Manuals offered from Automotion and Tweeks for around $300. Those of you who have used these manuals, are they worth the $, and if so, have you seen them for cheaper?

 

For some things they are great. I have only seen them for slightly less (e-bay). the bids get crazy. The wiring diagrams arent wonderful but are OK.

If you can part with the scratch, do it. I have a couple random books but not a complete set. I allways seem to put the 300$ toward something else each time I was about to take the plunge.

Good luck with the motor.

 

You can get them for $250 at Zim's

 

Paragon Products has the 944 set for $225. I think that they are worth it.

 

They are much more detailed than the Haynes manual, but... I've gone to look up 3 things since I got mine and come up empty each time. In other words, they aren't a magic bullet. I feel pretty confident that I can get any question answered with the manuals AND this message board, the people here are terrific.

YMMV

Thaddeus

 

What Thad and Tabor have said is consistent with everything I have heard and seen myself. Everyone here has the same interest even when we get OT a bit.

Sometimes you want to re-write the manuals and/or smack the author up side the head.
But what can you do?

 

I bought the fiche for something like $50 for both the 944 and the turbo supplement. Then, I bought a reader off ebay for about $10. Works fairly well, but rough handling will damage them fairly quick.

I also bought the parts fiche, but it became difficult to read, so yesterday I bought the parts manual. This is much better and includes the technical service bulletins.

'86 951
-Steve

 

Got my manuals on CD, somebody copied the 944 manuals (all of them and the turbo too) to PDF files and sells them on e-bay from time to time for 20 bucks.

 

I have to agree with Thaddeus. At times you will be confused by the stuff Porsche decided to put in the workshop manual.