944/951 Fast?
10-17-2004, 05:13 PM
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I love "Office Space"
Taylor or one of you guys shopping for a 951 should really consider my brother's '86. He contributes to this board, and others, as JFrahm. I test-drove this car with him this spring, and it is a sweet car and a great deal. It felt fast, tight, and was clean. No dash cracks even. Leather nearly perfect. Clearly garaged. I would have advised him to ask 1k more, but I know he wants to move it to fund his winter vehicle in Colo.
Someone, I think Taylor, asked me about exhaust. When I bought it, it had cat only, no muffler. Kinda loud, but not objectionable, even to my wife. 2.5 pipes otherwise. Before the race, I had the cat "serviced". We don't have emission testing here in South Texas, thank God. So, when you saw it, it didn't have, er, any exhaust. Pretty loud. 40 lbs. lighter (remember, weight "race" 1).
I think it sounds cool, but I spent a lot of time in nightclubs, on both sides of the bar, so I think I am down a few dbs. Anyway, I am going the Supertrapp route. It has a cool B&B rolled tip on it, 2.5" in to 3" at rolled lip that someone can probably have. During my brief off-road bike experience, I had one and liked it. There is a red 951 driving around Padre Island here with s Supertrapp, and it looks cool. I can open it up for racing with 4 allen bolts, or subtract and add disks as needed to keep the wife happy running to the store.
Will need help/thoughts from you guys before next spring to bring the 2.8 back to life. It has been downgraded back to a k26/8, stock chips, no other mods than exhaust. Too fast for autocross for p.o., so he sold the k27, chips, etc., and de-tuned it. The 2.8 is not even working for me at this point.
That said, 951's are fast. My S4 is a fast car, with Sparcos, Ott X-pipe (no cats), 5-speed, no air pump, no rear muffler, no rear air or rear wiper, other weight-loss diet stuff, bottom pan, and lowered ride height. It is healthy, tight, and ran perfectly. I thought it would stomp my 951 by 10mph. or so. Uh-uh. Same speed on Sun. at 147.6. 951's are fast cars.
Next year, I'll take charge in April of providing tent/base camp stuff. Goliad is only 90 mins. from Corpus, so it's easy for me. It isn't far, though, from Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and not really bad from Dallas. Thanks again guys!
Jeff
1986 2.8 951 (++)
1987 928S4 (+)
1992 968 cab. (Expensive B&B--could have done it a lot cheaper with straight pipes & Supertrapp)
Taylor or one of you guys shopping for a 951 should really consider my brother's '86. He contributes to this board, and others, as JFrahm. I test-drove this car with him this spring, and it is a sweet car and a great deal. It felt fast, tight, and was clean. No dash cracks even. Leather nearly perfect. Clearly garaged. I would have advised him to ask 1k more, but I know he wants to move it to fund his winter vehicle in Colo.
Someone, I think Taylor, asked me about exhaust. When I bought it, it had cat only, no muffler. Kinda loud, but not objectionable, even to my wife. 2.5 pipes otherwise. Before the race, I had the cat "serviced". We don't have emission testing here in South Texas, thank God. So, when you saw it, it didn't have, er, any exhaust. Pretty loud. 40 lbs. lighter (remember, weight "race" 1).
I think it sounds cool, but I spent a lot of time in nightclubs, on both sides of the bar, so I think I am down a few dbs. Anyway, I am going the Supertrapp route. It has a cool B&B rolled tip on it, 2.5" in to 3" at rolled lip that someone can probably have. During my brief off-road bike experience, I had one and liked it. There is a red 951 driving around Padre Island here with s Supertrapp, and it looks cool. I can open it up for racing with 4 allen bolts, or subtract and add disks as needed to keep the wife happy running to the store.
Will need help/thoughts from you guys before next spring to bring the 2.8 back to life. It has been downgraded back to a k26/8, stock chips, no other mods than exhaust. Too fast for autocross for p.o., so he sold the k27, chips, etc., and de-tuned it. The 2.8 is not even working for me at this point.
That said, 951's are fast. My S4 is a fast car, with Sparcos, Ott X-pipe (no cats), 5-speed, no air pump, no rear muffler, no rear air or rear wiper, other weight-loss diet stuff, bottom pan, and lowered ride height. It is healthy, tight, and ran perfectly. I thought it would stomp my 951 by 10mph. or so. Uh-uh. Same speed on Sun. at 147.6. 951's are fast cars.
Next year, I'll take charge in April of providing tent/base camp stuff. Goliad is only 90 mins. from Corpus, so it's easy for me. It isn't far, though, from Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and not really bad from Dallas. Thanks again guys!
Jeff
1986 2.8 951 (++)
1987 928S4 (+)
1992 968 cab. (Expensive B&B--could have done it a lot cheaper with straight pipes & Supertrapp)
10-17-2004, 06:18 PM
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Officer - do you know how fast you were going?
Driver - um no
Officer - well I was doing 100 mph and you were pulling away from me
Thought bubble above driver's head - hmm 150 mph will do that
Names have been changed to protect the sort of innocent.
Driver - um no
Officer - well I was doing 100 mph and you were pulling away from me
Thought bubble above driver's head - hmm 150 mph will do that
Names have been changed to protect the sort of innocent.
10-17-2004, 06:49 PM
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Jesus Asarus, drop the camera and shift already. (The third gear pic - whew!)
Jeff, my friends never miss the Mile. They sell all the T-shirts. I'm planning on being there. I've got a 3'x5' Porsche flag, we just need some sort of collapsible pole for it. Gotta represent.
My friend with the 422 T/A will run again, but I don't know when exactly. Since he can get over 180, they only let him go once. He has to have a cage for those speeds.
I think I'll be near the 155 mark when I go again. That's the goal anyway.
Jeff, my friends never miss the Mile. They sell all the T-shirts. I'm planning on being there. I've got a 3'x5' Porsche flag, we just need some sort of collapsible pole for it. Gotta represent.
My friend with the 422 T/A will run again, but I don't know when exactly. Since he can get over 180, they only let him go once. He has to have a cage for those speeds.
I think I'll be near the 155 mark when I go again. That's the goal anyway.
10-17-2004, 07:48 PM
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Brian, we gotta get Matt to send some Greaseslinger shirts down and let Jeff and Jason sell some. Maybe turn a little profit so's the old boy can recoup expenses?
10-18-2004, 11:04 AM
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I'm waiting for a new wastegate and an accuboost to solve the problem. However, my boost is not so bad (16/17 psi and drops to 13 psi at redline), on the picture it's low just because i'm hitting the rev limiter just when i take the picture ! 
10-18-2004, 11:24 AM
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That's a great picture Asarus!
270+kph in a car with 250,000+ kms on it. Amazing!
Edit: Hey, check out that ghost like SOS sign in the first one. I think your cheating death
270+kph in a car with 250,000+ kms on it. Amazing!
Edit: Hey, check out that ghost like SOS sign in the first one. I think your cheating death
10-18-2004, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Asarus
Pictures made yesterday..
I had to slow down but i have 1000 rpm left to go upper than 300 kph on the speedo
And a picture on 3rd gear...
I had to slow down but i have 1000 rpm left to go upper than 300 kph on the speedo
And a picture on 3rd gear...
Keep an eye on that temp guage - I failed to do so...
10-18-2004, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by UK952
Is that a 205 rallye?
weber carb (s)?
Nice very rare over here - guess there aren't that many there either!
Tony
weber carb (s)?
Nice very rare over here - guess there aren't that many there either!
Tony
Two double body carburetor : Weber 40 DCOM
7100 rpm and 1294 cm3 NA for 103 bhp
The Porsche has 250 000 kms but we just rebuilt the motor 7000 kms ago
http://www.asarus.com/projet951
18-psi guru chips, metal head gasket, 968 M030 chassis, etc...
10-18-2004, 06:22 PM
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I am new here but I will put my two cents in too. I am still getting up the nerve and looking for the right moment to (at least) excede 140 or so. In preparation I have checked my Garmin GPS against the speedo on three occasions by carefully going up to 80, 90 and 100, checking the Vmax reading on the GPS in between. There is no pattern to establish if the speedo is optomistic or pessimistic but the GPS has always been within three MPH of the indicated speed. I have an '89 951 with Weltmeister chips and elevated fuel pressure. As near as I can tell, it should reach 172 at 6500 rpm, if it will pull it. In other words if it is RPM limited, not HP limited. I don't know for sure where the RPM limit is with the chip set I have. Not sure I have what it takes to find out either, at least not in 5th gear.