I am not determined to get a Porshe, it was simply an idea. Yes, lots of people have said bad stuff about them, and thats coo, but it wouldn't change my mind if I was hooked on one! BUT I'M NOT! I've already got too damn many cars...
That said, if I was going to get a Porsche, it really would be a 928. I have a couple catalogs sitting here in front of me, and suprisingly, most of the replacement parts are very similarly priced to the old Bimmer parts. (I KNOW someone is going to argue this point...)
Alas, the point of this whole thread was NOT that I am dying to pour money into a piece of shit 944, because I'm not, it was that Porsche owners SEEM to be pansies, unlike BMW owners who seem much more ready and willing to jump in and fix / modify / change shit. It just shocks me that in the BMW community, someone would jump on a $900 E30, fix it up, and build a sweet motor for it, whereas in the Porsche community, the idea of turbocharging a non turbo motor is unheard of. I'm sure one or two people got that point.
And just for the record, everyone claims that Italian cars are money pits and unreliable piles of crap. I bought a 1987 Alfa Romeo as my second car... Everyone warned me and laughed. It was the most reliable car I ever had! Bosch electronics probably helped though. The only time it left me stranded in THREE years was when a voltage amplifier for the L-jet system went out. Replaced it for $45. Then I went on to install a 3.0 V6 and 4.10LSD transaxle, panasport 15x7s, konis and good springs. It was a riot!
I think some cars get horrible reputations for being money pits, like the Alfa, but what it really really really comes down to is who owns it, and what they are willing to do themself. Sure a car can be a money pit if you pay someone to fix it... But if you invest in a service manual and have your own tools then there are very few things that you can't do yourself, even on a 944.
That said, if I was going to get a Porsche, it really would be a 928. I have a couple catalogs sitting here in front of me, and suprisingly, most of the replacement parts are very similarly priced to the old Bimmer parts. (I KNOW someone is going to argue this point...)
Alas, the point of this whole thread was NOT that I am dying to pour money into a piece of shit 944, because I'm not, it was that Porsche owners SEEM to be pansies, unlike BMW owners who seem much more ready and willing to jump in and fix / modify / change shit. It just shocks me that in the BMW community, someone would jump on a $900 E30, fix it up, and build a sweet motor for it, whereas in the Porsche community, the idea of turbocharging a non turbo motor is unheard of. I'm sure one or two people got that point.
And just for the record, everyone claims that Italian cars are money pits and unreliable piles of crap. I bought a 1987 Alfa Romeo as my second car... Everyone warned me and laughed. It was the most reliable car I ever had! Bosch electronics probably helped though. The only time it left me stranded in THREE years was when a voltage amplifier for the L-jet system went out. Replaced it for $45. Then I went on to install a 3.0 V6 and 4.10LSD transaxle, panasport 15x7s, konis and good springs. It was a riot!
I think some cars get horrible reputations for being money pits, like the Alfa, but what it really really really comes down to is who owns it, and what they are willing to do themself. Sure a car can be a money pit if you pay someone to fix it... But if you invest in a service manual and have your own tools then there are very few things that you can't do yourself, even on a 944.
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