944 Turbo Final drive
03-16-2003, 11:10 PM
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944 Turbo Final drive
Has anyone tryed to put eighter a 944 Turbo final drive on a 928, or just the gears in a 928 final drive?
The 3.9 (aprox.) ratio would make the car much more of the stop light King. Expecaly my 83, with it's 2.2. ;-)
Anyways, just curious.
The 3.9 (aprox.) ratio would make the car much more of the stop light King. Expecaly my 83, with it's 2.2. ;-)
Anyways, just curious.
03-17-2003, 12:22 AM
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There's no commonality; the parts won't fit.
-It is easy to think of the 944 as a 928 with half the cylinders; this is not the case. This car is based on the 924, which was actually developed for VW and was to be sold under the name "Scirocco". Management changed, and the new folks decided the Scirocco should be front-wheel-drive, so the development contract with Porsche was dropped. Stuttgart decided to continue developing the car as their own product...voila.
The early 924 used VW Golf front suspension, VW type 4/914 rear suspension, and a VW delivery van engine mated to a front-wheel-drive Audi transmission mounted at the rear via torque tube. The 924 turbo's used a Porsche transmission, but I think the 944's reverted to a version of the Audi unit.
You'd have just as much luck swapping a lowly VW Fox ring and pinion into your 928 as you would with 944 parts, since the Brazilian-built Fox also had a version of Audi's "quill shaft" transmission.
I think Devek had some tall-geared ring and pinion setup built for top speed runs...contact them, but I think this was custom made in a machine shop and it would cost thousands to make your own~
Good luck!
Normy!
'85 S2 5 Speed
-It is easy to think of the 944 as a 928 with half the cylinders; this is not the case. This car is based on the 924, which was actually developed for VW and was to be sold under the name "Scirocco". Management changed, and the new folks decided the Scirocco should be front-wheel-drive, so the development contract with Porsche was dropped. Stuttgart decided to continue developing the car as their own product...voila.
The early 924 used VW Golf front suspension, VW type 4/914 rear suspension, and a VW delivery van engine mated to a front-wheel-drive Audi transmission mounted at the rear via torque tube. The 924 turbo's used a Porsche transmission, but I think the 944's reverted to a version of the Audi unit.
You'd have just as much luck swapping a lowly VW Fox ring and pinion into your 928 as you would with 944 parts, since the Brazilian-built Fox also had a version of Audi's "quill shaft" transmission.
I think Devek had some tall-geared ring and pinion setup built for top speed runs...contact them, but I think this was custom made in a machine shop and it would cost thousands to make your own~
Good luck!
Normy!
'85 S2 5 Speed
