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Originally Posted by NoYouRelax
What is the relative difficulty of a clutch on an SC vs 944 belts? I said "if" a clutch is 8 of 10.
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I own both an SC as well as a 951 (and 6 other Porsches) and I do all my own work. So I think I am pretty qualified to tell you about working on the cars.
Doing a clutch on an SC is actually a nice job; I'd rate it a 5 out of 10. It is not hard, but as you know, lots of stuff needs to be dissasembled to get the clutch out. I guess the closest thing I would rate the 944 timing belt job to is doing a valve job on the SC - that is a much closer approximation.
- lots of poor access
- job takes 100 times longer because you either are doing it by feel or can't get into where you need to.
The 944 adds to this it's evil nested parts. A hundred things need to be removed in order to get to what you are doing, access is HORRIBLE, and the car in general is hugely unforgiving of mistakes, even small ones. I would like to beat the crap out of the idiots who designed the 951, that's how bad it is to work on
Out of all the cars I own , I hate working on the 951. Actually hate it. And i work on cars probably 6 hours per day, 6 days a week.
When it runs, it runs great and puts a smile on my face. The only thing I have that can out handle it is my '07 997 turbo. It drives that nice.
if you can do an SC clutch, you can do just about anything on a 951 but you will loathe working on it.