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Gish, you’re right, and they don’t even seem to be fulfilling orders placed and told customers to contact their card providers! That’s not good! Shame, I had a great service from them. I suspect ...

Cheers guys. Worth noting that these blank drums came from www.machine7.co.uk in the UK. They do a 5x130 Porsche PCD off the shelf, but these are drilled to 5x114.3 which is popular Jap car (Mitsubish ...

Hi. Yes, those are the ones. They do them in 5x130 for porsche wheels which would make life easier. They are way too in-board for standard wheels and brake discs etc. I have 9J rears (245 40 17 tyres) ...

I've made billet front hubs, and twinned them with Jaguar XK8R 300mm discs with 944S2 calipers. That was fairly straight forward, but the rears are a PITA because milling the driveshaft splines is tri ...

No exciting news yet I’m afraid! Engine is in the car and in the process of making the fuel, boost and coolant lines. The problem has been a very busy 4 months in work and my wife’s daily driver n ...

Thanks Morgen. I haven’t been providing many updates because all anyone really wants to know is whether it’s working or not! Once it is, I’ll post some progress pics. I hoped the assembly of the ...

Hi. Still steaming ahead! The engine running you saw was just a proof of concept using 924 pistons and had a compression of around 6:1!

I’ve since built up a new engine with Vw flat top pistons, ...

Ah, yes, my bad! Makes much more sense to install one new thicker bushing, than insert a bush within a bush!

Got me wondering now what my shop is planning/doing!

Good info! 27mm? I thought 924 were 24mm - apologies if ive got that wrong, makes my post above completely irrelevant!

My block and pistons are with the machinist now and should be ready i ...

Plenty of VW type 4 piston small end bushings listed on google which are 24mm OD and 22.4mm ID. These bushings are designed to be pressed in to the rod, then reamed to final size once fitted so could ...

Would be good to know if a place to buy bushings. I’ve asked my engine machine shop to make them for my 16v build when I dropped off the block, crank, rods and pistons yesterday. I didn’t tell the ...

Thanks, I see what you mean about the underside oiler and bolt access now!

There was discussion on here of another set of rods being commissioned but yet to hear back on the design specifics.

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Good to know. I’m in 2 minds what to do! Not a part I want to be modifying as the cost of failure is significant both in money and time off the road!

That said, with VW flat top pistons I need f ...

Thanks Safe.
Do you have a photo of your AliExpress rods? I looked for the xpeeding ones as they seem to be available for most models but none for our 924 2L.

I agree I don’t like the idea of ...

Do other forged rods have the small end oil supply Safe? Seems a shame to lose that if it is the case although I don’t know how many engines have them or the consequences of losing it.

The websi ...