FS: 1988 Modded Street/DE 951
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FS: 1988 Modded Street/DE 951
After almost 12 years of ownership, it's time to put my 951 on the market. While going thru engine rebuild pains two years ago, I picked up a modded 996tt that has become my DE car, and I just don't have the time or opportunity to drive the 951 much anymore, so I'm ready to sell it and let someone else enjoy the investment I put into it.
The engine was dry sleeved and rebuilt 3 years and 3000 miles ago, but after we discovered #1 cylinder sleeve was dropping we swapped out the old block with a known good one last year using Darton MID wet sleeves instead. The engine work was done by Ivan at IMA Motorsport. On his engine dyno it pulled 420 hp and 400 lb-ft on 1 bar of boost, and 460 hp/430 lb-ft at 1.3 bar. $10,900 or best reasonable offer; specs and photos below.
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The engine was dry sleeved and rebuilt 3 years and 3000 miles ago, but after we discovered #1 cylinder sleeve was dropping we swapped out the old block with a known good one last year using Darton MID wet sleeves instead. The engine work was done by Ivan at IMA Motorsport. On his engine dyno it pulled 420 hp and 400 lb-ft on 1 bar of boost, and 460 hp/430 lb-ft at 1.3 bar. $10,900 or best reasonable offer; specs and photos below.
Engine
- 2.6 L, Darton MID sleeved cylinders
- MOTEC M400 engine management system with data logging incl wide-band Lambda
- Electronic boost control
- Garrett 30-76 turbo
- Tial Blow-off valve
- Custom camshaft
- Upgraded valve springs
- Cross-drilled crankshaft
- 103 mm CP Racing pistons with Calico thermal coating and oil squirter cooling
- Pauter rods
- Ron Davis racing radiator
- KISS 2nd oil cooler
- Intercooler water sprayers
- Balance shaft delete
- #4 cylinder steam vent mod
- Bilstein custom valved coilovers; 500# fr springs and 600# rear spings
- Wrightwood Racing camber plates
- Wrightwood Racing castor blocks
- M030 rear anti-sway bar
- SPEC 3 clutch w/LW flywheel & pressure plate (approx 3000 miles on clutch)
- New clutch master & slave cylinders
- Limited Slip Differential
- Turbo S front calipers
- SS brake lines
- Front brake cooling ducts
- 3" Fabspeed SS with bolt-on hi-performance cat or test pipe spool piece
- Recaro SRD (OEM seats also available)
- Redline bolt-in rollbar w/IO Port camera mount
- Simpson 5 point Race Harnesses
- VDO boost gauge (in A pillar pod)
- AEM lamda AFR gauge (in A pillar pod)
- Oil temp gauge (on console)
- Toyo Proxes 4 AS tires (less than 1000 miles use)
- Original vehicle manuals
- Full set of 944T factory service manuals
- Vehicle service records to 1993
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Thanks Shawn! Dyno numbers are at the crank; Ivan used his engine dyno to set the initial tune of the engine. I have pics of the dyno computer screen that Ivan took during the runs; IIRC, his printer was down at the time. Green line is torque, white line is HP, blue line is boost, and red line is AFR. The 1 bar run is the first one below, and the 1.3 bar run is shown next. IIRC, pressure is shown in Pascals (absolute pressure) so 200 pascals = 1 bar above atmospheric pressure.
Ivan is an authorized MOTEC dealer with a lot of experience setting up ECU maps for 951's. After he set up the initial tune on the dyno, he spent a lot of time fine tuning it on the street for overall day to day drivability. He had installed the MOTEC system previously, but after we did all the other performance upgrades during the rebuild he made the appropriate adjustments to the ECU maps to optimize the performance. No doubt it could be tuned more aggressively, but I wanted to keep it fairly conservative for reliability.
Ivan is an authorized MOTEC dealer with a lot of experience setting up ECU maps for 951's. After he set up the initial tune on the dyno, he spent a lot of time fine tuning it on the street for overall day to day drivability. He had installed the MOTEC system previously, but after we did all the other performance upgrades during the rebuild he made the appropriate adjustments to the ECU maps to optimize the performance. No doubt it could be tuned more aggressively, but I wanted to keep it fairly conservative for reliability.
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I've run with John on the track for years and I can attest the car is freakin fast and well setup. I have to use my superior driving talent to keep up. ;-)
Good luck with the sale, John, but we'll be sad to see you leave the 951 fold...
Good luck with the sale, John, but we'll be sad to see you leave the 951 fold...
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It will be sad to leave the 951 fold after all these years, but at least the "Renn 951" stays with me forever on Rennlist!
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Yes, it's a GREAT deal at this price! I'm motivated to sell, so I'm not looking to hang on to every last dollar.
A/C system has not been removed, but it did stop working back in June. Might just need a recharge, or it could be the compressor has failed at this point. I didn't see any point in fixing it if the next owner might want to remove it all together.
With the light weight pistons and rods the engine is not rough like it would be if the balance shaft is deleted from a stock engine. No problem at all running it on the street like this.
With the light weight pistons and rods the engine is not rough like it would be if the balance shaft is deleted from a stock engine. No problem at all running it on the street like this.
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