Porsche 924 Scheiße - hit and run

22,771 · February 15

20 hours ago, N Dentressangle said:

Next puzzle - should there be this small hole in my throttle butterfly?

Yes.

I did some mods to my Puma throttle body and the butterfly had a little hole like that.

Unfortunately in knife-edging my butterfly I removed enough material that the idle rose to around 2500rpm.

I tried soldering that hole to block airflow/reduce idle speed, but no dice.

Then I gave up and refitted the standard one.

7,061 · February 15

According to the 924 OC the hole is non-standard and:

People drill holes in throttle body butterfly valves primarily to increase airflow at idle. This modification is usually done to fix idle issues in engines with aftermarket performance camshafts (which need more air to idle correctly) or to prevent stalling on engines that cannot get enough air through the Idle Air Control (IAC) valve.

TBH I doubt if my car has a hot cam in it or anything similar. It goes well, but the idle isn't lumpy and there's no big rush of top-end power like I'd expect.

I might have another throttle body I could swap the butterfly from, or potentially fill the hole with a rivet...

2,837 · February 15

Doing some more reading about this and it seems to be more of a hangover from carbs, where you couldn’t get the throttle plates open enough to get a good idle without exposing the transition ports and therefore moving off the idle circuit. With a standard cam and standard throttle body the air control valve should be able to cope.

I’d be nervous of a rivet, I know it almost certainly wouldn’t but I’d have the fear of it ending up in a cylinder - either something softer (braze/solder/jb weld) or a new plate would possibly be less risky? Or just leave it if it works, as I assume you’d just turn the bypass up to compensate for the lack of air now going through the hole….

7,061 · February 15

Yes, it could probably be left. My rationale for a rivet would be that it would be far less likely to become loose and ingested than a screw and nut.

JB Weld might be a goer.

7,061 · February 15

Small rivet fitted:

I don't see that coming loose tbh

Hard to set a correct idle otherwise

13,951 · February 15

13 hours ago, Forty45 said:

The other end of the spectrum 🙄

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202511037615505

Or for less than half that, £20k, you could have this really good CGT replica:

or for £2k the brown one in the background, a rare but no one cares ‘dabloon’ limited edition with a sexy brown interior.

Both currently only for sale on the 924oc

5,023 · February 15

12 hours ago, motorpunk said:

Who was that? I loved writing for that magazine. They had a rat-infested unit in Corby. There was always something daft going on there.

924 = cool.

I swapped it with Ed Hall for my old Lexus LS400 which then cost him a fortune. I felt kinda bad for that to be honest, I bought the Lexus from a guy in Stamford and got it all up and running and it was absolutely trouble free for me, but really seemed to bite Ed in the arse.

3,418 · February 19

I’m very tempted to knock on the owners door, you can only see it during the winter months from the train and I’ve worked out the house number.

During the summer it disappears under brambles, it’s got to be worth buying as it’s guards red, but I’ve also sent it over to Harry Dewhurst as he’s the man when it comes to crusty 924’s.

7,061 · February 19

Unlike most neglected old cars, the galvanised bodywork means they do stand a chance of being OK. Not to say they never rot, but nothing like as much as contemporaries.

The mechanicals are 95% basic VW, and cheap to fix. The interiors aren't, and age really badly so can be tricky - depends how perfectionistic you are.

Worth a knock if you fancy a go with one, I'd say.

7,061 · April 21

So, some total shithead crashed into the Porsche today whilst it was parked in Bristol and drove off. No note left, obvs.

Luckily someone saw them do it, stuck around and gave me their details. The perp is a white Peugeot Partner van, reg NV21 MSO. I've told the police and am going to have to go through the insurance.

Any sleuthing anyone can do on NV21MSO most welcome...

10,394 · April 21

What an arsehole! Thank goodness someone saw it. Hope you get is sorted without too much grief.

14,313 · April 21

Nooooooo!

That’s really fucked up. I hope that the old bill throw the book at him.

Matching your weathered metallic blue paint is going to be tough.

3,128 · April 21

25 minutes ago, N Dentressangle said:

Any sleuthing anyone can do on NV21MSO most welcome...

Only what is publicly available.

But not had it long

7,538 · April 21

7,061 · April 21

2 hours ago, Peter C said:

Nooooooo!

That’s really fucked up. I hope that the old bill throw the book at him.

Matching your weathered metallic blue paint is going to be tough.

It will need the side and bonnet doing to blend in.

The car is a write off.

14,099 · April 21

Awful news. I hope his cock turns black and falls off. Bastard.

18,724 · April 21

^^ what he said, even if it was a woman driver.

Buy it off the insurance, use the pay out to get it sorted.

30,970 · April 21

Whatever you do, do NOT let them take it away "for assessment" or any nonsense like that.

Moment it leaves your hands it's almost definitely never going to be seen again other than at a Copart auction.

13,951 · April 21

Twat.

Good wings are getting hard to find now. John on 924oc is stripping a couple of 924s, he might have a drivers wing going?

https://porsche924.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39025

Or try Rareporscheparts, they carry a good stock of body parts. :

https://rareporscheparts.co.uk/collections/924-body-parts?srsltid=AfmBOorWv8U5iBEeopyYfLaGMYMG3Ycuy0XPKv7BB8WYfrk4lK3XV8-W

Is everything else ok, that looks like quite a whack.

7,061 · April 22

Drives straight and there's no damage to the inner wing.

I'll have to decide what to do from here I guess.

18,864 · April 22

Surely this is a case of the police locating the driver and you making a claim against them directly? The other vehicle has committed criminal offences and it should be the easiest thing in the world for the police to follow up on this.

Telling you to just "go through insurance" is an absolute cop-out. Pun fully intended.

5,023 · April 22

17 hours ago, N Dentressangle said:

It will need the side and bonnet doing to blend in.

The car is a write off.

The value has nothing to do with it. They should be giving it back to you in pre-accident condition.

5,023 · April 22

Remember you were parked up, the insured driver hit a car, left the scene of the accident, and you're effectively a third party.

April 22

Get some legal advice .

5,385 · April 22

I have always prefered to deal with such incidents through a solicitor, just remember to notify your insurance company of your intentions.

They can't hammer your no claims if you haven't made a claim off them.

23,495 · April 22

57 minutes ago, DaveDorson said:

The value has nothing to do with it. They should be giving it back to you in pre-accident condition.

Insurance is to put you back into the same position financially as before the crash.

If the cost of repairing the vehicle outweighs the vehicle value they can absolutely just pay out the vehicle value and write it off. You've been given recompense equal to the value of the vehicle, therefore the case is settled.

Otherwise you could say "a new front wing is no longer avaliable for my £2000 1953 Singer, so you'll have to pay for somebody to make one from scratch for £5k".

Mostly this'll be a case of trying to get the other guy's insurance info. Which will depend on police arsedness.

13,483 · April 22

A fair few years ago I had a customers car (old T reg Celica) reversed into by a twat trying to buy fuel who promptly did a runner. We got his reg number and rang the police who sent out the local Bobby that had known me since I was a kid (he once sent me home to put the baffles back in my DT50's exhaust).

He came into the workshop and said sorry it's not a police matter you need to contact your insurance company but before he left he said can I use your toilet which was in the rest room.

Later on I went to the rest room and found all the details of the hit and run driver had been mysteriously written onto our jotting pad by the phone.

7,061 · April 22

Pathetic

14,099 · April 22

12 minutes ago, N Dentressangle said:

Pathetic

True. And i live with one of them. The police is on its arse.

April 22

54 minutes ago, N Dentressangle said:

Pathetic

Really not surprised, totally useless 🙁

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