944na all upgrades possibles

[Sam Grant]

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[fast924S]

Yea, I recomend you get a wilk chip and when the MAF kit comes out get it. For A header get a B&B or SFR Both are very high quality. Lightweight pullies are good, they will help the engine spin a little faster and free up maybe 2-3hp. Spark plugs arent gonna get you any more HP, I would stick with a good set of copper plugs and gap them correctly. As for ignition Just check out the MSD web site. There is a ton that you can use it all depends on what your looking to do. Also a ignition system would give you much HP but it will make the throttle response better, If your looking to make alot of HP eather your gonna have to pop that engine open and do some big work or your gonna have to go with a supercharger or nitrous. Other then that all those small mads will make a small difference and change the attitude of the car

[Dantilla]

If your car is properly maintained, there is no better upgrade, at any price, than a good driving school.

Go to the track, get some quality instruction, and it will vastly improve every vehicle you drive for the rest of your life.

Amazing what a lowly 944 NA is capable of in the right hands. Geez- It's amazing what a pick-up truck is capable of in the right hands.

[pokey]

Steer clear of cone filters, they draw in hot air from inside the engine compartment. Header and exhaust won't do anything till the AFM restriction is removed, MAF conversion does that. Light pulleys might net you a couple (read 1 or 2) HP, but will allow your engine to rev up a little more quickly. You will probably get as much power freed up by pulling the balance shaft belt as you will from doing most aftermarket bolt ons.

[Usmellgass2?]

The best improvements I have made are the tires, Wilks chip, aluminum flywheel and lsd (in the diff, not blotter, window pane, 25, micro dot.....)

[Verruckt]

Removing weight is a lot eaiser and cheaper then adding hp. Light weight rims and tires; removing everything that isn't needed to include back seats, speakers and stereo including wire, light weight battery ect. A light weight flywheel will make help your engine spin up faster as well. And if the drive could loose a few lbs as well, you would know better then us...;-) Keep us posted, and add your car, mods and the last time you changed your timing belt to your sig.

[Britwrench]

All sounds great for a track car. For the street, the point would be why?

[fast924S]

Why not, Why buy a 500hp viper, Why buy a 300 hp 350Z, Why trick out a 951 to have 400HP. Do you really need the HP, No you dont. The reason why people do it is cus its fun. Its fun to tinker and its fun to see the real world results after moding a car. Yea its better/safer to do it for the track and if your gonna be racing it should only be at events. But hell isnt a guy allowed to do what he wants with what ever car he owns?

[Britwrench]

Sure anything is possible and it's already been done, more than a few times.
So if the basis is it would be better at the track because it's not usuable or not so good to drive on the street anymore, someone turns up in a WRX and drives past waving out the window, all that effort is wasted isn't it?
Engineering a car to be faster, better and more drivable does not mean going and buying what everyone else does without provable results. Bearing in mind, the most positive change you can make to the 944 is the suspension..because it was designed to go round corners that's the place to start. 944's were never outright quick cars, that was the 951s place in the line up.
They do handle and corner much better than most people think. Having been in the automotive business for street and race cars for way longer than I would care to admit, most of the aftermarket stuff doesn't do anything for me anymore.
Changing a car compromises what it was designed for, so more power = gear ratios are now not optimised and so on. At the end of the day, as Dantilla says, a good driver will be both quicker and smoother than a badly set-up modified car.

And when was the last time you actually drove your 924S?

[fast924S]

Good point and it been about a year since I had mt 924S back on the road

[butz]

Can somebody respond my other post about chip 700 rp or 6500rp /..thanx

[fast924S]

Im asuming you mean the chip with the 7,000rpm redline or the stock redline.

I would just stick with stock, Unless your autoX or trying to get your 0-60 times down or something, you dont really need the extra 500rpm

[butz]

everybody recomend the wilk chip i check his page he has option 6500 rp or 7000 rp ?my town there is not gasses test so dosen;t matter but want to see if the 7000rp is to hight for engine 944na?will reduce life of engine ?

[fast924S]

It wont hurt the engine to much just dont go driving around at 7000rpm all the time