Porsche 944 - kollected again

[HillmanImp]

Tipec 

 

The Impoverished Porsche Enthusiasts Club? I'll fit right in.

[HillmanImp]

I retrofitted remote locking to mine, was a fairly easy think to do and will save you from frozen doorlocks

 

I once wired up a stereo in a car to the indicators so that it would only work when it was going round corners.

 

How easy is 'fairly easy'

[Ohdearme]

I once wired up a stereo in a car to the indicators so that it would only work when it was going round corners.

 

How easy is 'fairly easy'

Is it easier than, say, getting the rear lecture windows of a Jag to work independently of each other?

[paulplom]

I once wired up a stereo in a car to the indicators so that it would only work when it was going round corners.

 

How easy is 'fairly easy'

Hahahaha

(It wouldn't work at all in a bmw.)

[spike60]

Plumbers silicone grease lightly smeared all over the seals helps stop the doors sticking in frost and helps with sealing as well. Doesn't seem to mark clothing either which may reduce the chance of you getting punched in the face.

[barefoot]

 

On a different note, it it worth joining the Porsche Club or owt with these? I'm just worried that as I'm neither powerfully built or a company director that I might not fit in, although I would appreciate increased parts availability so could put this as my profile picture and hope that nobody notices that it's not me.

No, find and make friends with a decent breaker/specialist.

I was in Porsche club GB, because it was free with some insurance deal. I went to one club meeting where we were 'honoured' I kid you not, by a visit from the club president. An old git who kept telling tales along the lines of,

'So I dropped it down a cog and hit the corner at 550 mph...'

I went to a single club show and chucked the sticker away rather than put it on my car.

A bigger bunch of pretentious wankers I have yet to meet.

[John F]

No, find and make friends with a decent breaker/specialist.

 

I mentioned there was a good specialist breaker in Leeds earlier in the thread, Scotty:

 

https://prestigesalvage.co.uk/

[inconsistant]

A bigger bunch of pretentious wankers I have yet to meet.

 

This, unless you are solvent and have a recent 911 in which case they'll love you. PCGB is almost exclusively recent 911s, Boxsters and big expensive Cayennes things. A wealth parade basically, masquerading as an owners club. My experience is that they are the polar opposite of what Autoshite is all about. 

 

TIPEC seem to attract a much more interesting, diverse range of people with a genuine interest in ALL Porsches. I think historically they started as an offshoot of PCGB because of infighting or disillusionment or something. I took my 924 at it's rattiest to one of their local events and there was interest in the fact that I was doing it up, and getting stuck in myself. Plenty of advice available, but also plenty of people who looked like they wouldn't know how to pop the bonnet too. There were 944, 928, 914 and all sorts there. 

 

924oc are obvs model specific and on the whole are not your stereotypical Porsche owner bunch. There are a number of 944 owners involved in the 924oc too, but I'd say mainly earlier models where there's more of a mechanical overlap with the 924S. 

Frazerpart are good for, er, parts, and Max who runs it is brilliantly helpful. Mostly service items.

https://www.porsche.com/uk/accessoriesandservice/classic/ Porsche OPCs, (Official Porsche Centre) or 'dealers' as the rest of the world call them, are often the cheapest for spares, which surprises everybody. Try them first before eBay. They'll usually post stuff out to you or you can pop in and get free Porsche coffee.

Woolies Workshop often break 924s and 944s so a good source of spares. He's near Warwick I think.

 

Don't overlook the wealth of knowledge of 924 and 944s on here, there's lots of it slopping about as you've probably seen from this thread so far. 

[tooSavvy]

......

 

"A bigger bunch of pretentious wankers I have yet to meet."

 

Not done Capri Owners Club obvz.

[HillmanImp]

Actual FTP today due to lack of electric in the battery.

 

Jump started and its been fine the rest of the day.

 

Probably the immobiliser plus a slightly shit battery and the fact its cold as fook.

 

Have got one of those old skool car security devices on it like this:

 

 

So have removed the twisty bit and hopefully stopped any drain for now.

 

In other news I finally spent some time on the Visa. Got it running nice but am confuzzled about this pipe:

 

 

Whats meant to attach to it. I can't see owt thats fallen off, or should I get a rocker breather filter or something?

 

It might've always been like that and I've not noticed.

[HillmanImp]

What a pain. It seems that I can't open the boot without power, so whilst I can remove the isolator bit from the boot, I have to go in the car and clamber over the seats to refit it and get the battery back on.

 

Best lay off those pork pies as its a bit tight in this car if I need to do this all the time.

[spike60]

Mine's garaged up at the moment but I'd thought of this a possible while it's unused. Unlike BM's etc they don't have jump points under the bonnet the bonnet that I know of. A jump to the starter is probably a no go as well as it's mounted on top of the bell housing. Could supply to the locking fuse under the bonnet be enough to power that circuit?

 

Edit. Just read yours properly, I didn't realise you had removed the battery. Ignore me.....

[mrbenn]

Actual FTP today due to lack of electric in the battery.

 

Jump started and its been fine the rest of the day.

 

Probably the immobiliser plus a slightly shit battery and the fact its cold as fook.

 

Have got one of those old skool car security devices on it like this:

 

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So have removed the twisty bit and hopefully stopped any drain for now.

 

In other news I finally spent some time on the Visa. Got it running nice but am confuzzled about this pipe:

 

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Whats meant to attach to it. I can't see owt thats fallen off, or should I get a rocker breather filter or something?

 

It might've always been like that and I've not noticed.

 

Does it connect to the pipe I've arrowed in red here:

[HillmanImp]

Does it connect to the pipe I've arrowed in red here:

Thats the plug lead. I had to look twice though, the perspective is a bit confuzzling.

 

I'm going to get one of these tomorrow I think in the absence of anything I can see to fit to it.

 

 

If its what I think it is, it should just stick on the end. Although it might be massive but I'll wait and see.

[mrbenn]

Oh, whoops! So it is. Soz.

[gm]

Mine's garaged up at the moment but I'd thought of this a possible while it's unused. Unlike BM's etc they don't have jump points under the bonnet the bonnet that I know of. A jump to the starter is probably a no go as well as it's mounted on top of the bell housing. Could supply to the locking fuse under the bonnet be enough to power that circuit?

 

Edit. Just read yours properly, I didn't realise you had removed the battery. Ignore me.....

 

 

there is a positive terminal under the bonnet of the 944, handy to hook up a charger / spare battery to get enough juice to open the electrically operated boot lock. I doubt it's rated for starting the car with but once you've got the boot open, you can access the battery anyway.

 

looks like this with the little blue hat (obviously someone has been messing with electrics in this pic)

 

[gm]

the mx5 has one in a similar place, handy for powering the timing light too

 

[HillmanImp]

Thread resurrection.

After this failed it's mot in October 2020 because the sills were fucking shit, it sat on my drive for a bit whilst I couldn't find the time to work on it, and when I did have the time, I just couldn't face it.

In stepped Northern Monkey who kindly offered to look after it for a few months.

3 years later he needed the space and I had to take it back. 

I'm determined not to let it sit there. I'm in a better place now and do occasionally have more time. 

The cars not got any better whilst its been away however I took it down to a local garage and popped it up on the ramp and its really not terrible under there. 

I can't afford to pay someone else to do it as none of you cunts have bought my Volvo, so I'm going to have to fudge it like its 1974 using my copy of The AA book of the car. 

The weather was okay yesterday but it was far too windy to weld. It wasn't too windy to take it apart though so that it was ready to weld when its better, so ImpJr and I got to work striping away the interior to try and avoid an welding inferno. 

He was over the moon with his 'new gaming chair'. 

I've reminded him its only temporary, although knowing me and my projects people may think he could have it for a while. 

Today wasn't windy though so I could start. 

The sills looked like shit. I knew there was a bit of wob on there but was surprised to find out how much. 

Look how thicccck that is. I don't think the cars been wholloped there, I think its just about a cm wider there than a normal 944 after someone's kindly hidden the rot.

The inner sill (is it still the inner sill this far back?) where it joins the floor was non existent though, which is a bigger problem than the outer sill. 

With that done, I moved to the outer sill/rear wing/sill end or whatever you call this bit. 

Where it was joining the bit above at the end, the welding was fairly easy as the metal was good, even considering how out of practice I am. On the other bit though the metal I was welding to was waaaffffffer thin and ended up being more slag than anything else as it had blown more than Lilly Phillips.

Look at this shit! 

and afterward grinding back, looked like this:

Fucking crap innit. I should've just quit when I knew it was shit but had been at this for a few hours and had summit fever and a sore back. 

So an extra section needed cutting out until I could get to better metal. 

Bit better. Still some blowing but nothing terrible, more user error than a problem with the metal. So I ground it back again with more success and gave it a lick of paint in a sort of similar colour. 

Looks okay from 20ft and you're not wearing your glasses 😂 

Will be okay with a bit of filler to shape it (or maybe 6kg of it like before) but whats important is that its now metal and hopefully an MOT pass on that side, unless anyone can spot any obvious errors. 

So will move onto the other side next time I get a chance. It doesn't look anywhere near as bad but I bet its still hiding some horrors. 

[Wibble]

Fair play, the AA book of the car, would have had it filled with chicken wire and wob, not metal. Proper job being done now.

[colino]

I had a couple of 944s back in the day: Weren't they galvanized?

[HillmanImp]

14 minutes ago, colino said:

I had a couple of 944s back in the day: Weren't they galvanized?

I think they were but I think it only puts off the inevitable doesn't it. 

The sills and wing bottoms on these are just expected to be rotten I think. 

[HillmanImp]

1 hour ago, Wibble said:

Fair play, the AA book of the car, would have had it filled with chicken wire and wob, not metal. Proper job being done now.

I wouldn't say its a proper job but its a better one, which will hopefully tide me over until I can get it done properly. 

[N Dentressangle]

Looks OK to me. I blame the twats with the P38 in the first place - wouldn't have taken much longer to weld it properly.

[HillmanImp]

Tonight on a short ride with ImpJr, he was saying how excited he is to have the Porsche back. When we got home he insisted that we do some more work on it. 

So I got him to jack up the car, take off the wheel and we both fixed the power steering (the belt adjuster had snapped). 

He's proper enthusiastic about coming out and helping me do stuff on this car, its ace. When he was little, he used to always run out to help on the cars but these days its all huffing and puffing when he's asked to leave the xbox or whatever he's on but he's well up for all things Porsche.

Long may the enthusiasm continue. I was just going to take it to the garage to get it serviced and change all the fluids but am going to get him to do it with me now if his interest continues. 

Tomorrow, we're going to get the near side of the car ready to weld up by refitting the drivers side seat and carpets and taking them out of the other side, so he'll still have his gaming chair. 

On a less positive note, the replacement bolt for the power steering was over £50 with postage. Mental. 

[stuboy]

great work dude