Nate:

Rather than refering to it by it's generic term of automotive ADD I normally use the proper medical term of "Automotive Dorkinson's Syndrom" or ADS. The symptoms of the diseae normally begin with a single old car, in my cae a 69 Triumph Spitfire, that I was going to fix and "keep forever". It progressively got worse with various Fiats, 2002 BMWs, lots of old motorcycles, a Toyota off-road phase, followed by the Porsches. I have explained it to my wife that it's better than having a girlfriend (in my case), and as long as it financially does not force us to eat the pets or children, it's all good. There are 12 step programs available to cure you of any love of cars. These are found @ GM dealers and various other bland, POS (and by that I mean Piece of s...) overpriced vehicle sales floors. Personally I'll just stay sick. Take care and try to explain it to your girlfriend in medical terms so that she can appreciate the fact that you cannot help yourself and that rather than give you grief she should be supportive, maybe take a second or even third job to help you pay for your medication which in this case is another car.

Steve

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Nate:

I forgot to mention that unfortunately the diseae is hereditary, in this case skipping a generation and showing initial signs in my granddaughter. I pity her poor boyfriend / husband.

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Her first restoration


Steve

that's GREAT news! 'cause her dad does the exact same thing! LOL so now ALL future generations are cooked!

Other good news: The silver lining to her having to drive down to NC for a family issue on short notice meant that she had to take the '44. She told me over the phone last night that it has to be the nicest driving car she's ever driven, and how much would it cost to get one for herself? (keep in mind that this is my old, thrashed, ex-daily driver...)

Of course, that means that I still have a disassembled Corrado in my garage that she apparently now no longer wants, and that space could me much better used for my '55 Stude...

nate

...reconsidering having kids, I could use a couple little tool fetchers...

Nate:

Congradulations on getting her to have a bonding experience w/ the 944. It's the first step in the car craze. I surprised my wife w/ our 944 for her birthday about 12-13 years ago. It literally came home on a flat bed as it had sat for 6 years. We spent her birthday in the garage w/ a bottle of tequilla (another tradition she and I have whenever we get a car, boat, whatever) and detailed it. It took another month to get it running but she loved that car. After she started with fibro-myalgia symptoms and could no longer comfortably work a stick I bought her the M3 auto and started doing the stuff in this thread. I am going to find a super clean 964 tiptronic so that we can both drive it. I keep threatning to sell the 944 but I just can't do it. I had it on a short road trip in southern Missouri not too long ago and stopped fo gas. The old boy at the station literally said: "Woohie, is that one of them there feeraris?" I love it.

Now I don't know if you can help with this or not, but is there any way that you know of to teach the lesson that "a 50 year old car is not old if it's got all new parts" :) She still doesn't understand my attraction to the Stude, and she refused to drive my previous one (a '62 hardtop) after her first attempt resulted in her sitting in the driveway with the hood open and the handbrake still on :/

nate

...life is too short to drive slow, boring cars...

Nate:

Equate the car with a human.
I'm 53 and I have lots of new parts, most of them due to my ability to create accidents ie: a couple screws in my fibula, multiple stiches over the years, etc. My wife still insists that I am "a child". I just came home with another car Thursday. I sold the C4 and picked up what I have been looking over 6 months for, a low mileage ML55AMG. I know it's only 6 years old, but it is bad ass. Jeannie did not say a word, it only got an eye roll. I convinced her we needed something "practical". Everybody needs a 350HP (at the wheels) SUV that gets 12 MPG.

The best thing I ever did was when my wife came out to the Garage around midnight one time and started complaining about the time and money I spend there. My only response was to ask her if she would prefer that I keep a young girl somewhere in an apartment and live out my second childhood there. It stopped the complaining right there.

You just have to train them over a period of time. The only concession I have made as far as vehicles is seiiling my motorcycles. I got rid of a 71 Norton, 63 BMW w/ Steib side car, and a really cool Kawasaki 750 two stroke. She decided that I should get rid of them so that I would get old enough to see our granddaughter grow up. I did keep the little Aprillia Scarabeo 50, it's a lot of fun.

Steve

Steve,

Maybe you were better off not ever getting that supercharger:

http://www.924board.org/viewtopic.php?t=22326

Seems ESC944 has struck again. This poor guy in the UK actually got his supercharger from ESC944, installed it, and after one short drive it melted solid. It seems that ESC944 advised him with the wrong pulley sizes and the supercharger may have been spinning at turbocharger speeds! Either that or there was some inherint design flaw with the unit to begin with. Probably requires more investigation before anyone will know what caused the melt down.

Later,

Chrenan

On a side note, Steve any chance you dropped by the St. Louis European auto show last sunday? I was there along with some Ferrari friends. There were 2 944's in the Porsche category, one was an early '44 and one was a pristine 22,000 mile Guards red original everything car, every original tires.

Also got to see a '94 911 Turbo Flachbau slantnose, one of 64 ever made. It was the real deal, a 930 911 with 964 bumpers and 968 headlights. The owner had two other porsches there, one was a late 80's factory slantnose 930 and the other was a 95 993 biturbo.

I need to enter next year. I would have been the only 924. It was a good time leaving the show two rolling along Lindberg with a 930, a 996 C2, a Ferrari 308 and a brand new Lambo Murcialago.

I will have to post pictures later!

Mike:

I stopped by and did a quick walk through. My car was not well received. I had a couple guys w/' their heads jammed up their ... who decided it was bastardized and obviously not original. I was standing next to them just kind of taking it in. Oh well, I like it. One of them had a total cockroach 928 and the other one had an old 325e. I guess to each his own. Call me next time you are in town. I live 10 minutes from Plaza Frontenac. I have a totally cool wife and a garage refridgerator that is always well stocked. It's always nice to talk to another car guy / engineer.

Steve

Almost everyone I talked to sans 1 ferrari guy was pretty nice. I sat in some bloke's F430. And one Porsche guy actually cared that I had a 924S in the parking lot.

The 928, I saw two, a red S4 in the show and a black S4 at a restaurant across the lot.

I was about to sell my car to a guy in Fenton when he calls me today and says he has found a red beauty 944 in Ballwin that he's buying supposedly. Turns out it was the car that I was going to look at tomorrow. Isn't that something. So now my 944 is getting away and my 924S's buyer is gone.

I guess I will just keep the 24S again this summer and wait till money rolls in next summer to sell and pick up a cherry S2 cab or turbo.

Heres just a few photos. I took over 140 in all. I may put them all on flickr later.

My 24S and a boxster:

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The cleanest 944 engine bay you will ever see. This car had original everything and only 22,000 miles or so:

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A real Turbo flacthbau, one of 64 ever produced by the factory...

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And this gem was sitting in the parking lot, not even in the show. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1181151945.jpg

What did i miss? Are you keeping the '44? You sold the C4!!??

indeed he did!

I just could not sell the 944. I have had it way too long. A stock 911 is pretty easy to replace on down the road (I have done it 6 times). I have never seen another 44 set up this way.

Steve

Hello All:

It's been a year since I last posted on this thread. The car is running great, the A/C is not. It'sthe first problem I have had since redoing the old girl. The O rings are shot on the pipes coming out of the compressor. It's already converted to 134 and the guy that did that is fixing the problem for $200. He is good and does the jobs I have no desire to do. Stay cool. I never did get my money back from Hausbrauen, hopefully this a-hole has not resurfaced under a different name to troll for more idiots like me.

Steve

Hey Steve, Ive read all 33 pages of your trials and tribulations with your 944... I have an 84 944 and was diving into some mods myself iv done throttle cam, cone intake, cat delete, and its got an autothority chip and adapter board. I wasn't sure if you knew anything about changing the afm and dme to a later model say 85.5 and higher and throwing a different chip in? also you will probably call me crazy for this one but Ive always been a Nitrous Oxide fan and done correctly they can be a really great bang for the buck upgrade, you cannot come near he HP increase for the money If your interested Ill post pics of how I'm running my wet kit
-Jarred

I would definately like to see pictures of what you are running. As for mine I think I have thrown the last amount of cash besides maintainence at it. I do have a MAF conversion sitting in a box that I will probably go ahead with. A buddy of mine here in St Louis has a dyno shop and he will tune it for me. I also just redid the A/C into134, shorter A/C belt, and a 90 degree fitting on the compressor that I can get at due to the shorter belt. I also had to replace the o-rings on the pipes coming off the compressor, they were shot and not holding freon. I have gotten wrapped up in doing some things to an ML55 AMG. It's fast, big, and pulls the boat. We pulled 365 RWHP and 410 lbs of torque on a dyno. I also get right @ 12 MPG w/ premium when not really getting into it. 0-60 is right at 5.5seconds. Unfortunately I am pulling close to 5000 lbs.

Good luck with what you are doing, it sounds like you have researched the project and done the things that are cost effective and functional, kudos!! The 944 is a cool car, I will never let mine go. I seriously thought about selling it a while back and got offers in the $5K range. For that I will just keep it, expand the garage, and wait for my granddaughter to be old enough to drive. It's lasted this long, what's another 12 years?

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There is still no replacement for displacement!!

Renntech ECU and tranny software upgrades, vented rotors, ceramic pads, lowered w/ H&R springs and Bilsteins, LS1 small block exhaust (seriously) and it works and sounds great.

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Pioneer Divac D3 I modded to allow front seat video. I used a couple small buffer pre-amps to get the 1.5V p/p output up to 4 V p/p to interface w/ the Bose amps and speakers. I used a Lanzar 200 Watt sub amp and a Bose subwoofer out of a 98 ML that fits under the passenger seat. I stuck a JL Audio 8" 4 ohm in the back in a small fiberglass enclosure I made. I found a 10" LCD for $199 and installed it where the factory 7" monitor was and use 2 video sources (the Pioneer and a small DVD player in the glove box). My granddaughter can watch a movie w/ RF headphones while we listen to whatever we want.

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The stock louvered piece still fits to conceal it.

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Steve

Steve,


You are not selling your 944???

Jim:

Nobody made me an offer at all. Guess I'll just keep it. I just fixed the A/C so I am just going to enjoy it.

Steve

I say, Keep building, YOu have already done the hard part and have a amazing looking 944, Why not finish the last step for the old girl and give her a little more kick? You got all the supporting mods and friends to help you. Why not go nitrous, or why try a SC again from another company, I think your 944 wants you to. I think its calling you.