... when this project started.
First post on this side of the Pelican house. I've found myself inheriting a decade-old 944 project from my brother. It was last touched/worked on in maybe 2004 and has since become an object of constant companion in my folks garage and they've all had enough. Long story short, my brother bought the car on ebay for what we thought was cheap from a guy in Connecticut (probably a member here) who said it needed a timing belt job. When we got the car home (the head was already pulled the heck off) we found a foreign object had destroyed a piston, cylinder wall and the cylinder head... we then sourced a donor car that was in rough shape to collect an engine and some body parts from. That's about where the project stalled - I moved west and my brother moved on to other interests. It's hard to stay excited about a 150hp sports car I guess.
I was visiting my parents for dinner and they mentioned I was welcome to the car in the garage otherwise it was going for scrap. I've run out of car projects of my own at this point in time as luck would have it. This isn't my first rodeo and I enjoy car projects during the long winter nights so I began inspecting the car and filling out a project plan. I'll share my project here if anyone cares to follow.
High-level overview of goals: Swap in Audi/VW AEB (big port) 1.8L 20v turbo power plant with big turbo and stand-alone engine management while maintaining function of all OEM Porsche instruments. Target HP: ~450 wheel. Square up body panels and basic re-spray. Budget: $4,000.
Here are day 1 pictures from the weekend. I live nearby and will be working on the car during evenings this winter as time allows until complete. If I'm able to complete the project with relative ease then hopefully this will inspire others to give it a crack.
All cozy at the farm where it's been perched for 10yrs:
Lots of spare 944 engine parts that will be unloaded cheap (PM me if you need ANYTHING - I have a spare tall-block in good condition)
Gross...
Old Momo, not bad actually...
All coming out...
Needing cleaning:
A decade of New England farm dust:
Updates will be slow coming until the snow flies - questions, comments and heckling welcomed.
