drift a 944

Here is one of our recent projects at our shop in Athens GA. We did the LS swap but the rest of the car has been a race prepped chassis for decades. So much cool stuff in this car. Wish I had taken some photos of the underside.

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David Floyd

David Floyd

Factory Trickness, Thanks to Nicole for the link
http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/b...r-7944656.html

Dutch944

Damn..

Crazy Eddie

That's what heaven would look like, for some people on this board.

333pg333

So the Red one is 4wd? Does anyone know more about the Grey one??

FrenchToast

It is a shelved endurance record project.

Porsche Museum Secrets: Part 2 - YouTube

Lot's of fun stuff in there!

Take care,

PF

Interesting car! To me it seems that it has a rear mounted engine!?

Looks like 911 style headers at the back!

Regards
Peder

FrenchToast

Such as?

Yup, rear engine. AWD as well. Looks like they dumped cosmoline on it too!

I believe it's a flat-four. 911-esque headers maybe because they might also have heat exchangers?

Peedster

Engine of the greyish above:

http://www.granturismomagazine.se/wp...che_924_WR.jpg

Carlsbergas

I would probably sell my soul to work in that museum..

333pg333

Thanks F.T. :-)
Almost looks like the red one doesn't have a torque tube though? Perhaps angle. Perhaps just rwd?

FrenchToast

Hmm. Not sure. It may be RWD. I only said AWD as I read that some place.

However, I do see some sort of brace up front. If you zoom in you can see where the frame rail is, then where the tunnel starts to curve up, at which point the view is block by the metal ramp. So the tube could be there, just hidden.

But it would nice to have a clearer view of the underside, including the front!

Also looking at it zoomed in - I don't see a spring plate or torsion bar carrier. But maybe they are there.

Given the tire tread and wheels it looks like it could be an early car. Which is quite interesting, given it has AWD. The production 959 didn't come out for a few more years (but obviously in development at the time), and Audi had just released Quattro. Granted, Porsche had already made a prototype AWD SC convertible at the beginning of the decade. But still interesting.

Car behind it interestingly has American lighting, but a smoked or perhaps body-color reflector.

BTW, the car below it looks suspiciously like the 1985 Bauer convertible prototype. That car's unique brakelights would more or less confirm the theory

Take care,

David Floyd

Chris White's amazing 968 Cab