Lousailor

The Final result next to the OEM. Bought the original 944S/Turbo struts and the 250 lb Weltmiester Springs on Ebay, Koni 1414S inserts from R&D (shox.com?), and snubbers and dust covers from Paragon. Paragon had good directions especially compared to the Ikea-like picture drawings that came with the Konis. The top nut was a real pit without a zip gun. Spent some time filing rough edges, cleaning and prepping, then used a rust inhibitor white primer followed by the School Bus Yellow Plasticote. Afew more parts to combine and then I'll put the whole front end back together.

Mike B

Looks good... looks real good!

Ag951

My paint job wasn't anywhere near that good. But then the only time I see them is when I change the oil.

Skip

What car are these going on? The 85? If so, are you changing the front spindles as well? Those will not fit the 85 944 spindles without serious modification.

Lousailor

Skip, amazing attention to detail. These will be going on my 924S rebuild. Yep I've got Turbo spindles and calipers, still need to buy rotors, I'm leaning towards crossdrilled Zs, and I'll be using Weltmiester poly bushings on new control arms, as well as a turbo antisway bar. Some one else had commented that since these new strut housings have a rubber dampner that comes out at an angle it may not line up correctly with steel A-arms. From what I can tell the distance of the strut bolt holes from the spindle face is the same, but the larger diameter strut housings put their holes about 1/8 inch further from center. The OEM struts came out of the top mounting point straight. The new ones are angled a bit. If I angle them in will it help make up for the 1/8 inch offset towards center, so there won't be some kind of pre-load tension?

Manning

You mean upper strut bearing not strut housing. The late (87 on) upper strut bearing has built in angle to accommodate the 20 degrees versus 16 degrees angle for the earlier strut. This is due to the fact that the late offset 944's have longer lower control arms.

Whether that makes a difference in if you should or should not use later upper strut bearings on earlier cars I am not sure, but I have read here and other places that you should not.

jpapanas

Nice paint job - are those new Koni stickers? If so, where did you get them?

Regards,
Jim

Lousailor

Stickers came in the box with the Strut inserts. Cool

Ag951

I put my Koni stickers on my tool chest and air tank, since you can't see them on the strut, once the car's back together.

Skip

Lou, looks like Manning got your question. My line is "it works fine, but is not ideal". With camber plates, there's no worry at all.