Hi guys,

A friend of mine is racing with a genuine 944 Turbo Cup, 18" wheels and slicks (235 front, 265 rear) and broke his motor twice... and still because of a lack of lubrification on the #2 cylinder apparently..

Can you give him some advices for avoiding this when i will rebuild the engine. Is there some modifications to do to be sure there won't be any other lubrification problem ?
Maybe modifications on the oil sump and/or the crankcase but what to do ?

Thanks

 

Perp drill the crank. Oil gets held in the galley of the crank and in hard turns it's worse on the #2.

 

You mean... like on these pictures ?
Are there any downside effects to do that ?

 

Hmmmm,,,,not a 944 part....what is it?

Chris White

 

As far as i know, it is a 944 part (951 crankcase if i'm not wrong) modified for a better lubrification

 

No, that's a 928 32V engine the guy was showing us.

Anyway it's way too large for being a 944's.

The side effect is that you won't need to replace bearings preventively every ~120k miles anymore.

 

Oops, my fault sorry (i didn't understand anything with the german speaking)

 

Wenn man ein Porsche fährt soll man ein bisschen Deutsch verstehen und sprechen

 

No; the crank, not the girdle.

 

Do you have some pictures of what to do ?

 

At 90 degrees on each side from the oil galley you see, you should have a machine shop drill a hole. The added galleys allow the oil out of the crank to better supplt the rod bearings.

 

I found this pic - it shows two of the galleys at 90 degrees in the far left cylinder (#1) :

 

People seems to try:

cross-drilling the crank
installing baffles in the oil pan
running oil level a bit higher than full
using an Accusump

 

Asarus:
Is it the cyl. that is not getting enough lubrication or the rod seizing on #2 journal? There are different solutions for each.

 

i am going to:
Install a baffle
Install an accusump