Porsche 944 - kollected

[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]

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"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:

 

s-l300.jpg

 

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:

 

IMG_20181224_151409.jpg

 

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