A couple weeks ago I bought a nice 944S locally off Craigslist. It was listed with no picture, and it was short money ($2200) but I got in touch with the owner minutes after it was posted and was the first guy to see it in person the next morning. I bought it on the spot and had it on the trailer less than 12 hours after it was listed.
That ’87 S is my 4th 944.. but my first 16V so I was surfing around different forums after I got it looking for 16V specific info and getting help with a no heat issue.. Well I happened to be on a 944 forum last Sunday night (the 16th) when a new user made his first post.. looking for advice on what to do with his car, he wanted a new owner to take over the upkeep and enjoy it.
Sooo, Monday night after work, I met the owner at a foreign auto repair shop just outside Boston and trailered home this beauty. It's a Zermatt silver 1986 944 turbo... one of the few that was built up by Chris Cervelli at Technodyne as a street legal 400 HP monster.. I have all the receipts from the build.. just over $27,000 in total. That’s just the modifications… engine work, brakes, suspension etc.. and this was in Dec 2000.
The motor was built up when it had 65,000 miles on it, and now it has 105,000 but it has been well maintained over the years. It is unbelievable fast.. The 2 dyno sheets from the build have it at 401.8 and 403.5 horsepower at the rear wheels with 433 ft pounds of torque. It will spin the rear wheels under boost at 60 MPH.. Not for the faint of heart LOL
It does have a cold start issue I’m going to tackle once I get the tune up and chain tensioner finished on the S.. On cold start, it fires right up but sounds like its only running on 3 cylinders.. and it smokes a bit (light grey). If I bring the revs up to about 2000 the motor smooths right out, the smoking clears up and once the car is warmed up, everything is great. Once I’m ready to jump in to that I’ll make a video and give a better description.. The car has bigger fuel injectors and I suspect one might be leaking down overnight.
Here are a few pictures of it..
3 weeks ago it had been 5 years since my last Porsche.. Now I've got 2 great ones. Unreal...