I envy the Anal clean types. Definately one of my character flaws. I can have my garage completely spic and span one day and a total mess for weeks. Luckily that can't cary over to my house or the Boss (wife) will have my ass.

I have a small printing company where I have to keep up apearances and can have someone else do the dirty work :) luckily theyv'e never seen my garage or they may not listen anymore. My older son has been bugging for exrta $$ and wants to clean the garage for it, and I am reminding myself of my grandpa and Eldorado's dad :)

I have actually tried to emulate people I have known and thier ways of doing things but it just doesn't stick. It's hard to say "no" to the kids when they get home and I'm in the middle of pulling the head gaket when they want to go ride :) so there is the first of many little messes .

I don't know about cups that doesn't seem to be the first or 20th :) thing to get hurt (ask my older son) he'broken so many bones it's ridiculous. The younger one (in pics) is very analitical and has seen very few injuries thankfully.

I don't have any car jumping photos but I do have some pretty good burnouts and wheels up launches. I'll have to scan them though they are developed photos. I am working on getting a bunch together of various cars and of the current stuff now. But those darn kids , just get in the way when I get home where everything is :)

You are extremely fortunate to have your kids "everywhere when you are home". You share common interests and aparantly give them the greatest thing a dad can possibly give them, your time. Ours are older,32 and 26, with my wife being 18 when our son was born. He is the oldest, she did not have one at 12. We might be corn fed here in Missouri but most of us wait a few years to breed. When they were really young we had no money but we did have time to spend with them As they got older we started to make a few bucks and put in a pool. After that our house was the neighborhood hangout. I am in the A/V business and I got them an old projector that could shine on the garage door and they could see the movies from the patio and pool. There were a lot of sleepovers here and we fortunately had no real issues. Most kids just want a place to hang out. It's the parents that don't spend the time that have problems. Our granddaughter is our obsession now. There will always be time for your projects later, the kids grow up fast. As soon as ours went to college we bought a smaller house and made the extra bedrooms more like hotel rooms. They visit now and then want to go back to their own houses, no basement dwellers here. Our son is a single dad w/ custody of a 2 1/2 year old and we try to help as much as possible. It's amazing how close he and Morgan are. I just need to get him laid so he relaxes a bit and starts to have a life also. Hopefully my wife doesn't read this, she thinks I'm "disgustiing".

Steve

Steve sounds like you provided a great life for them.

I grew up very poor and w/o a father around and I know exactly what you mean by having a place to hang. I had a couple of friends that had parents that provided what you did and it meant a lot to me. I actually used one of the fathers as a role model for myself for a long time and still do (he drove a pile, worked hard, had a nice house, wife, and he really went beyond the ordinary for his kids) He was similiar to the Sam Walton type read: could never judge a book by it's cover (or car driven) he is a very successful business man and honestly had a great impact on my life. Even when I had my powerstroke, 28' enclosed trailer, and a crazy street car. I drove a beater around :)

The car is now gone but I have a nice wife, house, lots of time for the kids and to be honest I have found that no matter whether it is tuning my auction bought Saab or Porsche I feel good to just be able to better the vehicle w/o spending a ton of $$. To sum it up I feel I've been there done that in regards to the faster, better more cool factor. Don't get me wrong I still appreciate anyones efforts but, I just don't feel the need to do it anymore. I am satisfied if I can make it better and be able to jump in it and have some fun. My old racer friends still don't quite get it unless they have kids then they do :)

No basement dwellers here either I have a daughter enrolled now at metro getting her core classes shes 18 and in her own apt. Against my advice. We have a his, hers, and ours situation 18y/o daughter, 14y/o son and 10 y/o son. I had custody of my daughter and yes I was very young I am 36 now so do the math :).

I really do love my life at this point.

I still am amazed by the net thing and this forum. I have gone from wanting to kill some hoser in Florida (those feelings are only supressed right now) to feeling all warm and fuzzy. I think it's great. Where else would you find people w/ similar interests in these weird little cars and also share some family values. My wife still insists that the internet is the devil but I definately think it's whatever you make it. I also feel I am pretty much past the having to drive the most expensive thing out there. It's all relative. Even after completing what I am going to do I will be about $10K under the new car average price and less than a new Hyundai, should be a lot more fun though. In 3 years I will be able to apply for historical plates in Missouri, no more inspections, I can only drive in parades (yeah right on that issue). Even the M3 was only $16.5K when I bought it w/ low mileage and it's almost perfect. I's also bad a... for a production car.

Steve

wow, I read up to about 7 or 8 full pages of comments and then scanned the rest for pictures... but all I have to say is wow, what a great collection of cars and what a great 944 project you have! I love the fiberwerks kit, especially the rear, I just have not come up with enough money to afford such things. Even though you can make more power out of the turbo kits, the supercharger kit is way cooler. There is a guy in my area that races autocross events that I attend who has a SC 944. He took the actual charger from an old Ford Thunderbird SC. I wish I had some pictures of it...

Anyway, good luck with all of your future projects and remember to continue updating with pictures!!

Hey Drift...if you get a chance to see that car again or if he has a web site or something, I would like to see what he did. I was thinking the same kind of thing would be perfect for a daily driver. IF I remember correctly, the SC had an electric clutch similar to an a/c compressor and the car ran w/o the SC until it needed some extra power, then the SC kicked in. This seems like a pretty cool design as the car would get good gas mileage until the SC kicked in and then you would have all the power without the spinup lag of a turbo. I haven't read anything yet on the new Shelby but I'm guessing they did a similar thing on it as it has a 330cid engine pulling 500 horses yet is still suppose to get 20mpg.

i tried looking up any website they might have but no luck. :( I'll have to ask him about it at the next event I see him, which might be November, granted he will be there...

the only picture I have of his car is from the outside, which doesnt really do much help, but it's a strange looking one:
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i know that he trailers it to all the events, and shares it with his his brother I think. I really only talked to him about the supercharger thing once, but it was a while back. Hopefully I'll be able to catch him before your project begins!

My 944 is for my 16 year old daughter...no supercharger for her. She drives way too fast already! Actually she doesn't drive fast but she will hold her foot on the floor until she reaches the speed limit. I call her on it constantly. She tells me that she really likes the feel of acceleration. I have no idea where she gets that! I would just like to see his setup, I think that's a pretty good setup for a supercharger on a daily driver if he used the Ford approach. Of course he may have bypassed that clutch providing it has a clutch but I'm pretty sure they did have.

If you do see him have him throw some stuff on here. If it is a clutch type setup more than likely it is a M62 off of a Mercedes. I saw a kid that did one on a subaru it was cool, the only thing was b/c 0f the size of the clutch type pulley, he had to machine a huge crank pulley to get any real boost. Myself I would have just went to the larger blower but he took it all the way with the little one. He used a boost control switch to add fuel at the same time then later even piggybacked a fuel controller to pulse an extra injector. If you get the time and the drive anything is possible.

Steve, so true " it's all relative" I imagine when I get done toting these boys all over the country I will not be driving...Oh I'm going to say it...MINIVAN anymore :)

What, you mean not everyone does that?


I have been involved in racing so long, and I'm just now getting semi-serious about it. I raced Karts as a kid, but ended up getting out of that before I went on have a go at any championships. It's one big regret that I didn't try moving up though different classes. Now in college I have my hands on Formula SAE cars, and after you have driven something like that, normal driving just seems like sitting still.

LOL...I suppose but I don't make their insurance payments! She actually drives pretty well...I just know that if I teach her to drive 20mph when I'm with her, then she'll drive 35 when I'm not.

Today was a great day
 

Today was awesome here in st Louis. Clear and a high around 50. I decided to clean the Garage attic for the first time since I built it 14 years ago. I was going to throw away or give away everything just to not be one of those weird f...... dudes that dies and everybody sees the bizarre stuff they accumulated in their life. I uncovered this box and opened it to find: my original sunroof top case for the car. The cool one w/ the zipper and ties downs in perfect condition sitting next to the thing that rolls out to hide the luggage. I made a kid that works in my office come over and get up there and hand stuff off to me. The way I put it to him (he is a Junior ME student) was I wanted his analysis of what he did. I think he was looking for effiiency, energy burned, or something. I informed him that the lesson was if he did not complete his degree he better get used to doing stuff like that for a living. I can't believe a fine young employee would flip me off. Kids these days have no respect.

Enjoy the fall driving everyone

Awesome find. I then had to tak a drive to the grocery. I managed to forget a couple things so I could drive back. I am finding myself looking for errands to run more than I did with any of the 911's. 40 degrees with the heater on and top off (zipped up in it's bag) flying around is great.

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Wow you have a beautifal car. I dont understand why cups a re so underrated, they are one of my favourites, and look awesome on your car. Good work Steve, you have a really cool car!

Thanks a lot. The wheels are actually Mille Miglia 17" from Tire Rack and are a great deal. They are deep offset and don't require spacers for the early cars. I got them w/ 235X45X17 and 255X40X17 mounted balanced delivered for $1300. I only really had a choice between twists and cups. It seems there are a ton of twists out there so I went the other way. It's lowered a bit and a lot of fun.

Steve

How much are just the wheels? They look fantastic.

Beautiful car!

They were'nt bad at all. I think around $800 (for 4). I bought 17" Mille Miglia Alpina knock offs for my 5 series BMW and they looked great and held up really well. Call Tire Rack, they are extremely helpful and knowledgable. I did not want any type of spacers and these were one of only a couple choices.

With the Ground Control springs, 951 sway bars, lowering the back w/ the concentric bolt, and Koni Yellows it makes a great package. I also replaced all the little BS stuff, ball joints, wheel bearings, bushings, rotors, etc. It was amazing what a difference it made doing everything at once rather than one at a time as they wore out. The car had 73K on it when I did the work. All the mileage was by me or 90% by my wife since new so it was never abused. I know most people don't like it but I love the Fiberwerks front and rear body kit. Karl is a cool dude and makes a first class product. It takes a little work to fit right but it's worth it when done. His stuff is definately geared more to the street than track. It actually looks like the fit and finish is right rather than the usual racer stuff that looks great from 10 feet.

I am now devoting my time to go fast stuff. It really is kind of crazy spending this much time and money to basicly get something that will run with a stock 951 but I really don't care. For around $20K (plus the $19K we spent for it new) when done I will have pretty cool car that is definately different from anybody elses. It also has tremendous sentimental value.

Steve

Who doesnt like your car? I love Fiberwerks stuff, looks great.

I love the look of the fiberwerks, especially from the side like in that pic. It just makes the car look so new and fresh, like it's a 2000-something model. I think the front end is somewhat rice-ish sometimes, but other times I absolutely love it. It's a hard thing to judge when you are so used to looking at the normal production run cars for so long.

I wish FW made some 924 parts. I have been looking into doing something like you have done with your car Steve- suspension all redone, little lowered, with new style front bumper and even some side rockers. AIR is the only place I know to get a good looking updated style 924 front end.

Once spring or summer rolls around again I will have to make a trip up there. If I were to ever get some body panel reworking or upgrading done, we would definately have to do a photo op.

50 Degrees up there? Walking to class today I swear it could have been 30. I'm just not a fan of the cold :-/