I'm getting close to driving the old car again after a big restoration and modification. The project started with a leaky stock engine with high miles that was going to come out for a re-seal and ended up with a 3.0L 16v engine, new internals, and every stupid expensive part under the sun to make it go together. Right now it's driving, but I'm having a little trouble with sync losses from the crank sensor above 4500RPM, so that is my next project. It runs on MS3X megasquirt stand alone and I rewired it with the MS wiring harness. I'm not super happy with the way the wires look because I had to redo a few things in situ and my nice heatshrink job had to be adjusted a few times. Here are some pictures as it sits today after a little blast on some country roads dialing in the tune and troubleshooting. If you guys have questions, fire away and I'll try to answer if I can remember how I did something!
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Great build Justin! So nice to see one staying Porsche and not being ruined with an 07K, 1.8T or Gods forbid an LS!

 

Staying Porsche was supposed to make it easier. HA!

 

Did you already work on a 944 before this build?

Mike G.

 

Great looking build Justin! Is your sync issue trigger related? Btw, the new washer bottle and coolant tank really brightens up the engine bay!

 

Haha yeah I've been chipping away on this car for over a decade. Going "big" with everything was a challenge I hadn't anticipated, nor was part of the original plan. I got peer pressured into a giant turbo (precision 6062) and nothing after that fit!

I originally planned on trying to use MS3X to use the factory triggers, but changed direction to use a front mount hall sensor. I forgot to reset some of the settings I had set for a VR sensor (the pots on the board and the noise filtering) when I switched to the hall sensor. I'm hoping that clears it up, but if not I will try a DIYautotune sensor that has a better track record.

 

How'd you mate the exhaust and crossover pipe together?

 

That is a sweet looking car!
What wheels are those?

 

It's a stage 2 321SS from SFR that included the crossover and terminated with a T4 flange at the turbo.

Thanks! The wheels are from a few years ago when tire rack contracted out some forged wheels to Enkei I suspect, as the wheels are manufactured in Japan. They are called TR motorsports F2. They are a forged 18X10 all around.

 

That’s one serious reseal job. I’ve yet to have any reseal job I’ve done make my engine turn into a 3.0L 16v turbo. What kinda seals did you use? Did you get them from “Jack the Bean Stalk”? Do you have any more of those seals? Super nice!

 

Nice car. The inlet plenum is unusual ....

 

Great looking car

 

I replaced the littelfuse/hamlin sensor with a cherry/ZF one from DIYautotune.com and no more sync losses. I was able to get out and do some low boost tuning to get a decent base map dialed in. There's still a ton of work to do on the warm-up and higher boost levels. I ran into an overheating condition and took my radiator for cleaning and rerouted/simplified some more lines to delete the old throttle heater lines and that seems to have cleared up that issue. At least I can get it out for a drive every once and a while now though and Chrenan and I went for the first mini cars and coffee last night.

 

Great to see it back out last night, sounded amazing from my perspective!

 

Very subtle but cool work on the DRL's!!!!

More, please!