Triple_T

Just wondering... were in Alberta when this happened?
I saw the 110km speed limit and thought "geez they only post highway speeds of 90kmh in B.C. cause you have to drive around mountains!"

Butters944

KYB shocks all around + paragon $265 coilovers up front with #200 springs is what I have, perfect for street driving, feels very confident in turns too. And not to mention good on the budget. Replace bushings with poly graphite too

Yummybud924

lol, not alberta, I was coming from kamloops to vancouver.

Gawernator

I pulled off KYB some PO had installed... they were so **** and made the Koni feel like a dream afterwards (half firm)

Yummybud924

I think i'm going to order some bilsteins and replace the front swaybar bushings and see how it drives. i'm also on a budge, I have law school dept i need to be paying off, so I think i'm going to leave the stock springs. i'll check the other bushings when the car is lifted.

Triple_T

Ha! Ha! The Kokahala. Nice highway. Went from the turn off at No.1 to Merrit in 15min once upon a time
This was just after the toll gates were abandoned. So you know how long ago that was!

Yummybud924

yup lol. I go to school down in kamloops i'll be back in september. it is a nice drive.

Butters944

I always laugh at Canadian town names

TexasRider

These are great handling cars. But you also have to keep in mind the.... uuhhh ..... vintage ...... of these cars . That they are nearly 30 years old. Kind of like my Datsun Z at 40 years old. It was great in its day and still good today.

A suspension refresh and tires can make a difference. A couple of extra ponies in the front can help too. Or for bigger money you can push it up a lot more. I have had my 951 hold a 350-400 hp new Z at bay for a long while .

They are still not like driving a new $50,000 or 100,000 car though . But close and built at a different time.

Yummybud924

haha I know, my car is an 85.5 and the same age as me. my car also probably has over 300k kms on it now (odo broken at 265).

mine is an na and power on the highway sucks too but I can't fix that. on some parts of the highway going uphill it wouldn't go faster than 120km/h.

i'm not complaining though it's an old 80s car I don't expect it to perform like a new car.

hopefully with new shocks and struts and sway bar bushings it'll drive better.

morghen

Tim...you're still an idiot...you know that...right?
Above that....youre driving a POS beater....120km/h? lol ! (the clutch is probably slipping)...thats 3rd gear speed for the 944. My 16years old diesel golf can go 180...
Someone PLEASE sell a decent car to this guy so he stops being...well like he is.

Fintro11

Vancouver Island has a great stretch of 110 km highway :P though most of the time its 180 smooth sailing

BikePilot

I could imagine that some steep passes in the rockies (long steep grade + very thin air) might bog a stock N/A 944 down to 120kph (~75mph IIRC). Certainly should do better than that on the flats or normal hills.

For bushings, I wouldn't limit it to sway bar bushings. At least give the wheel a good wiggle and replace anything that flops around. If you can spare the cash go ahead and replace the castor blocks (rubber bits on the lower rear of the front lower control arm) and the front lower control arm bushings. Neither are particularly expensive. Check ball joints for play and replace as needed. Dito for upper strut mounts.

VirginiaF1

Yummy,
At 258,000 miles on the original shocks, my '88 944 still "handled" securely... although it was a rather punishing ride. The new struts & shocks made bumps and broken pavement wholly tolerable.
If your 85.5 is a speedboat at 70mph, immediately get a shop to diagnose why.
Ball joints, caster blocks, oily sway bushes and tie rods are likely culprits.
Does Canada not require annual safety inspections like Virginia does mate?

ZR8ED

Nope. Only during ownership transfers. No emissions tests either for these cars even at ownership transfers.