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[Adie]

I could be self ritious and say i still say bonnet not hood, aluminium not aluminum, chips not french fries, wing not fender, cm not cubits, sweede not turnip, but the simple truth is my keyboard is a UK one and the $ is no.4 and the £ is no.3 and I'm crap at typing, I actually meant $1000 but thanks for making me look stupid Oh and I've been her for 2 1/2 years now and I still am yet to find Quebec on my French maps
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924 zero cylinder race car,

[Chrenan]

Just teasing

My Dad's from Liverpool, came over in 78 and he still uses lots of "Britishisms"
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1987 951 - M193 Version for Japan

[Khal]

I'm so glad this "Engine Transplants" forum exists.

Now if we can just get a sticky in the "General" forum along the lines of: If you wanna piss'n moan that your car is slow, click here -> Engine Transplants

Ah, that'd be sweet...

BTW, have you ever driven a Turbo, Lord Fester? Apparently they're the quickest of all the 924's.

As Adie says, they were never intended to be Traffic Light Grand Prix cars. But when that Turbo starts huffin', they sure do git along...

Of course, you could always buy a WRX STi or Lancer Evo. I've seen blokes in 996 Turbo's look away nervously when a mod'd one of them rolls up!
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'80 924 Turbo

[dean924s]

Lord Fester,

Have you done any diagnostics to the car? When it cranks does the tack move? From your description I am guessing that you may have a bad or out of adjustment speed and reference sensors. Another item to look at is the DME relay. There is a very good writeup on Clark's Garage http://www.clarks-garage.com/ about testing and diagnosing no start conditions. The problem you are describing is quite common. I have never driven a auto version of these cars but my 87 924s is quite peppy.
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Respectfully

Dean

"WAR - It doesn’t matter who is right only who is left."
"Physics - A silent killer."

Car Specs & Mods http://clarks-garage.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2937

[Adie]

trust me, the auto's are a very different car, once you get them going there..............still really slow, the manual you can keep the engine spinning but the auto is poor, it also has a high stall convertor so unless your lucky enough to have a lot of torque your SOL. as a commuter car is has all the problems assoaciated with a porsche but the go of 924s with 2 plug leads removed. If you are very comfortable with working on 924/944's then it is a good little car, as an entry into the world of 'sports' cars it's a poor substitute, however I love mine but I have very little invested in it.
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924 zero cylinder race car,

[Adie]

if this has worked you will see a roughed out plate bolted to an engine, the standaed rover v8 flex plate was spun down to the same size as the Porsche coupling holder, it was then tiged on the out side and miged on the inside and every 4th bolt was bolted from the other side, the rover has a spacer behind the flex plate which was turned down to 13mm thick, this allowed the porsche starter motor to be used along with the porsche bellhousing, the second picture is the finished plate with the bellhousing attached, from here it's just a simple matter of bolting it all back in to the car and making some engine mounts.

The manual conversion is a little different but along the same lines, but the alu flywheel looks real sexy on those (not enough space to upload that image)
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924 zero cylinder race car,

[ESC944]

Beautiful... got to love it. Thanks Adie. Love seeing those pics, going to email you I want the rest of the pics... to drool over hahaha.

Thanks again for posting!

[Lord Fester]