Miami Vice - 951

[Julien]

944 are cool, but you should be happy you sold it. I was building a kit car using a 944S drivetrain, didnt pay too much on the drivetrain setup, but still lost my ass on it when I sold the stuff.

Yeah.. they can be a challenge


Ended up with this (again)

[2mAn]

944 are cool, but you should be happy you sold it. I was building a kit car using a 944S drivetrain, didnt pay too much on the drivetrain setup, but still lost my ass on it when I sold the stuff.

[efficient]

That was a sweet Porsche.

[Julien]

update??

sold to the guy in the picture two posts up :up:

[moving3e]

I also tried to pawn it off on the owner of my purple miata.. That didn't work so I bit the bullet and stuck a new turbo in her. 20 hours of labor later she's almost back on the road :stupidsign:

update??

[Julien]

Bye Felicia

[Coyote_ar]

damn that car is getting hotter and hotter. nice job.

[Julien]

Bit of an update.
I swapped the LSD transmission out of the parts car into my car:



And this is mine on the ground about an hour and a half later. Easiest transmission pull to date!

(insert thumb covering license plate)

Turns out the one I pulled out of my car had been swapped at some point because it had the "5R" stamp on it as well meaning it was also LSD... but it failed the wheel spinny test so I guess the clutch packs were dead *shrug*


anyways, also rolled my rear fenders. excuse how dirty I look.. I had just been rolling around under the car doing a transmission swap :)


Swapped front brake rotors to try an kill a shudder under braking.. but I think a slightly loose wheel bearing turned out to be the culprit (these have two piece "trailer style" wheel bearings up front)


Derping around town:

(I have that piece of door trim, i've just been very lazy about getting some double sided tape - lol)

annnnd now with the DP motorpsort wheels



Not sure what i'll end up doing with the fuchs *shrug*

[Shangsta]

951's are such fun cars.

[bostonvert]

This looks so cool with the fuchs!

And it looks really modern to me, like 10 years old or less

[Zacm829]

Awesome score on the 2nd 951. You had me contemplating trading that mt2 vert!

[Julien]

More work today.. Swapped the 4 new shocks/struts onto my car, also noticed the black car had a larger front sway bar.. and the fuchs!

[Julien]

In the quest for proper boost I found a very lazy wastegate. Even with it vented to the atmosphere I was only seeing 12-14PSI depending on load. Once I found that drawings for adapter plates where available online for a TIAL wastegate, I bought a TIAL wastegate because TIAL is baller.

Old Vs New (1 Bar spring)


Yay Boost! Since then I've also bought a new manual boost controller and dialed her in right at 16 PSI (Safe limit of the factory fueling)

And that ladies and gentleman was that.


That is until this friday when I saw this beast on craigslist for under 3kay:

I spotted with my little eye... FUCHS! SPORT SEATS! and later found out it had LSD!!!

I immediately .. to the owner since he was planning to go out of town and I knew this deal wouldn't last.


The car was wrecked in 2002 with 83k miles and parked until 2012. The magnificent PO bought her, replaced the fueling system, timing belt and got her running again. He then proceeded to fix everything wrong mechanically. The car has new struts ($$texas) and shocks, new radiator ($texas..) all new ignition components, etc. In other words, everything my car needs

I plan to keep her as a running car and eventually sell her.

Anyways, decided to ruin my apartment's parking lot yesterday:


Found this "relic"


Sport seats in! Still gotta do center console and door panels:


Today I'll hopefully do shocks/struts and more interior bits.


Check out his other 951 for sale.. Its a STEAL

[Julien]

More work:
Installed a boost gauge.. fits surprisingly nice without having to drill anything:


Did the necessary mods to the DME for the rogue-tuning a tune (adds a map sensor):


Car is not boosting as it should.. but it could be this pos. Going to replace it soon:


Other than that.. cleaned her up a bit and went out:




N2mye30: running 20 & 25mm spacers at the moment, I guess 25 & 35 would look best

[N2MYE30]

Looking good. Maybe some spacing in the rear?