up grading early 944

[Jason White]

can you up grade the early 944 suspension with the late alloy pieces? And I am looking for a roller 944 to rebuild anybody know of one?

JRW

[adrian jaye]

dont think there is a problem with that !

[Porsche944]

You can "upgrade" the front suspension, but you loose the mechanical speedometer drive from the left front wheel. To get around that you need to have a machine shop drill the spindle.

[bertman]

Why would you want to do this "upgrade?"

[Porsche944]

One thing I forgot: If you "upgrade" the front suspension, you loose the ability to chage the ball joints.

the early steel A arms use replaceable (VW/Audi) ball joints, while the later aluminum A arms do not.

However, you can rebuild the later ball joints. It's just a lot more work and about 3 times the expense of replacing early ball joints.

[Jason White]

I have all the parts sitting in my garage spindles, hubs, control arms, swingarms, brakes ect. And I heard the later A arms are stiffer and have a better offset or something. I may be wrong.

[1.2gees]

You will need wheels to do this "upgrade". I would just sell what you have. The late arms are indeed stiffer, and the parts end up reducing unsprung weight too, but not by a very significant amount. The calipers from the turbo/s2 help a great deal but you wouldn't have those unless the suspension came out of a turbo or an s2 obviously. Changing the wheelbearings is much harder in the rear, and a good bit harder in the front as well, details depending on exactly what you have. Like I said, I'd just leave your car alone. +You can sell parts of the suspension you do have now. Infact, do you have the caster bushings? (these go to the back of the front control arms).
Ahmet

[Jason White]

I think I will keep what parts I have until I purchase a car. And I do have the wheels, brakes everything. Thanks for your comments.

JRW