Just found these interesting pictures of Christian spoon's replica based upon Walter Röhrl's original 1981 924 Carrera GTS













More pictures can be found HERE

 

Wow, one more good reason to keep at least three tires on the ground at all times!

 

Looks like some expensive fun.

 

And some more nice pictures form the German mytransaxle.de forum







I hope some of these guy's speak english as we could do with a few new members over here and cars to talk about

 

agreed.

 

924 GTR Prototype:

 

Nice pictures !!!

I noticed something funny in this one, what's that circled in red and can you really lift a 944 from that point circled in blue?

 

I don't remember my transaxle having that same "access panel"... I'll have to fix that - anyone have a suitable set of railroad tracks?

 

Nice pics Mark!
I'm still trying to figure out why that motor seems to be sitting so low in the engine bay shots?

 

The thing circled in red is an air jack. When changing tires during a race, they attach an air hose to the cars jack system, and up it goes.
Being a full out race car, it's had a lot of chassis modifications. I wouldn't try those locations on the street version.

 

+1 on the air jack but shorly airm jack are mounted 2 either side for stability? or is this a tri setup to save some weight (never seen that before)

 

The lower the motor, the lower the center of gravity... maybe fab'd up some sort of crazyness to get it to sit that low? Hard to tell with full blown race cars because they're so highly modified and different from the norm.

 

Tri setup - that's the most common (because 3 points define a plane). 911s have two jacks in front of the rear wheels and one in the front trunk (think about the weight distribution). 944s have 2 behind the front wheels and one in the trunk. The spare tire well area is a popular place for the rear one, and the fronts are usually down in the foot-well connected to the front of the roll cage.

 

All my 944 series car have a jack point in the blue circled area. I use them for jack stands when I need more creeper room under the center of the car or when the rear suspension is being pulled. FWIW.

 

This is a replica from late Henri Toivonen's rally 911.






Owener of this car made also this very nice 951 S

from this:



to this:






Have you ever seen a 16" Fuchs with 951S caliper?