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I'll take the red one, please.  Fuchs wheels make any porsche about 20% cooler.

The gray one has ABS and Airbags.  and the wheels are PC'd black.....looks pretty slick with the gray.

The red one is an 84 and the grey one is an 86...no airbags on either.  I don't know when ABS came around because mine didn't have it.

87 was the first year of ABS and Airbags and the one I'm getting is an 88.

As far as unmaintained engines and inconvenient marriages between pistons and valves the 944 IS an interference engine.  The preventative maintenance is very often not done and so belt breakage is not uncommon on these are older cars.  Even if the PO gives you the records showing it being done recently I strongly encourage you to pull the top half of the timing cover to do a visual, and look for any sign of wear.  Unless you know what to feel for you probably won't be able to tell if the tension is good, but that car has an auto-tensioner so the is less of an issue than earlier models.  The inspection should take < 2 hours and is very easy to do.  Once you do it you can probably do the second time in < 1/2 hour E2E.

Good Luck with it
Regards
Graham

I GOT IT!!!!  The timing belt was checked wednesday when the clutch master and slave were replaced so I think it'll be okay if I don't check it right away.  It needs a latch on the roof adjusted, but I looked and am pretty sure I can get it working.  It also needs one dent in the driver door pulled and a quicky paint job.  The seats aren't 100%, but they aren't beat to shaZam!.  Overall the interior is pretty damn nice.  I'm out, it's time to hit the gym.

Cool your car is the 2nd generation so you will have plastic gears in the sunroof mechanism that often go bad over time.  The gears are cheap and it is not a difficult job to replace them.  They will either strip out completely, or wear to the point where they jump teeth and cause one side to be higher than the other.  If you haven't already found it yet this will be your new BFF site http://www.clarks-garage.com/.    There is a LH Nav section called Garage Shop Manual.  It has tons of DIY procedures for the car (including those sunroof adjustment).  Some good forums are http://forums.pelicanparts.com/index.php  or Rennlist (more politics there, not my favorite)


Good Luck
Graham

I'm pretty sure it is the gears that are wrong with mine. I may just buy the latches and convert it to all manual operation. This car fuckn rocks!

Meh screw the manual thing...go with MKI or 924 gears.  Also go ahead and start looking for the ODO gears because they go out frequently.

I'd avoid Rennlist...it's lame.  The Pelican forum is sweet.  I built a full stainless exhaust for my 944, which included a genuine N1 muffler.  Sounded BADASS.  The dudes on Pelican thought it was slick or would comment "not what I would have done, but a great effort" type posts.  Some guy on rennlist actually threatened to shoot me over it.  It was fun.

Oh and until there are pics you're just lying to us.

Pics 2morow. The interior is pretty good aside from the seats and I have fitted covers ordered already. A local audioshop has a double din DVD/gps setup I think I'm going to put in it.

I'm still thinking about what I'm going to do about the sunroof but it's not a big deal until summer now that it's locked down.

Fitted car seats are ghetto...they'll look like garbage within a couple months.  Get a seat cover kit...I can't remember who mine came from but they're a BIG name amongst the Porschefiles.  Took an afternoon to install and looked stupendous...like stock.

Well fukzo, I think my drivers rear CV is crapping out.  Fortunately they're only like $75 at NAPA once you bring back the core.

Lol welcmoe to oldporschedom. been a while sicne ive ben there my 77 924 

I'm going to order two axle assemblies tomorrow.  Comes to a little over 200 shipped, haven't decided if I'll tackle the job myself or have my mechanic.  Time is the biggest factor.

f%$king things are fun to drive lol , hell im half tempted if my PI settlement is good enough ill get the duc. but im nowhere near calling dibs as of now

I don't think it's goin anywhere this time of year and I'm not really pushing to sell it so it could still be around when you get settled out.

This thing is a blast to drive other than babying it a bit so I don't completely destroy the axle until I get it replaced.

cool hting about my 924 was when i neded parts, i gaffed em froma volk rabbit, at the local junk yard

The axles are really easy to do, but can take some time as the bolts are almost always full of alot of crud.  You can usually get away with an Allen socket/wrench, BUT there is a 12point tool made specifically for this job that works very well.  If you can find a Snapon, or MAC tool truck buzzing around they will have it. Probably like $15 - $20 from them.  Also remember to torque them to spec, they have a habit of backing out if not torqued in properly.  The bolts against the Tranny can be gotten with a set of vise grips if you need to (stripped) , but the ones in the trailing  are too deep to get at without either an allen or the correct tool. 

Regards
Graham

Do I need to put it on jackstands or can I get away with just using ramps??  I'm thinking there's no reason the ramps won't work and it'll help keep the wheel in place.  CV should be here tomorrow, I'm hoping to do that and an oil change Sunday.........PO put 10-30 in last oil change and almost everyone I've asked suggested 20-50 probably pick up a set of plugs and clean out the air filter too.

SOMEONE BUY MY BIKE!!!!!

an cv axle shafts ive ever replaced you have to split the spindle from the up lower or both control arms to get the shaft out.  that means jackstands wheels off removing calipers removing disk its self removing spring then pullin the axle shafts.