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Paul · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 12:22 pm Post subject:

Have you checked with a Porsche dealer? I bought a rebuilt one with a 2 year warranty for less than $800 a few years ago.

J1NX3D · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 1333 Location: New Zealand

The places that im talking with are the top 3 Porsche workshops/ tuners/ dealers in NZ and they have their whole hand in the nz porsche community pie. im not holding any hope out for it. theres only 6 x 924 turbos i know of in the country and ones mine and ones John H's (from this forum), another 2 of them are also race cars owned by 2 brothers. At a sensible guess id say there would be no more than 10-11 of these cars on NZ roads, theres really no 2nd hand spares market for these cars here

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john h · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 4:35 pm Post subject:

You're slightly wrong on you estimatation of the number of turbo's in NZ - I've three in my garage (one in boxes) the other two as runners, In wellington where I live I know of at least 5 others including the corletts two.
As for the turbo rebuild who did you go to there's quite a few places to go to in Auckland other than Tiurbo Vehicles and th eliek, the agents do sometimes have spare units - my last unit was brought of Giltraps and a reasonable price.

Even if you have shagged the shaft you can still get parts the old KKK agent in NZ used to be diesel services Limited (in receivership) but teh current KKK agent is Turbochargers NZ Ltd http://www.turbochargersnz.com.

As for the the three tuners who are you talking to?

Drop me a line if you want more detaisl of who can do what. The turbo I race on one of the so called tuners reckoned was shagged and would shit itself first time it got hot cause it had a couple of cracks in the turbine housing 10 years later it's still developing heaps of boost so don't beleive all they say.
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J1NX3D · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 1333 Location: New Zealand

wow i didnt realise there was so many!! ur hogging them all john!
i talked with powerhaus in wgn, fastforward in akl, and steve at europacific.

the parts that i need are
- exhaust housing
- centre housing
- exhaust impellor
- inlet impellor

steve at europacific has been searching and is having to price the parts from the states. hes also going to price me a rebuilt unit from the states where the last one he got was $1800.00

turbochargersnz is where the turbo was taken to by my mechanic friend. theyre the ones that stripped and diagnosed it.

i might give giltraps and quadring a call this morning!
and yes, im staying with the k26
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Kenodog · Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 2669 Location: Vancouver,B.C.

J1NX3D-What year is your car?I have a guy here in Vancouver that has a 1981 931 he is parting out and I know the turbo is good.Probably get it for 3-4 hundred Canadian dollars.If I ship it to you in a box marked "gift",you shouldn't have to pay much,if any,duties.Let me know if I can help.

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78porsche924 · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 5:53 am Post subject:

From www.performanceproducts.com a rebuilt turbo is $1015.95 with a core charge of $300. That is for the 1980. For the 81-83 it is $921.95 with $300 core charge. All else fails, call them up.
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wdb · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 2024

came across this site ,they have a turbo for the 87 924 : (

http://www.actionsalvage.com/turboporsche.asp

CMXXXI · Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 1939 Location: Vicksburg, MS

Hmmm, a 931 all the way to 1987, and some for the 928 too?!?! News to me, though I've never claimed to be the most informed person on the planet. I wonder who the manufacturer "KC" is. I think I'll stick with OEM...
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Lizard · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 4:44 pm Post subject:

the 87 924 is for the 2.5L engine
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john h · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 2:41 pm Post subject:

anothe two places to try is Mike Healey at Turbo vehicle s- hes bloody good and Leonard Jones at Autostrasse in Kelston tell 09 818 1679 he used to a lot of work on my GT in the late 80's so he knows the turbo (he's ex Giltraps and has been really well trained)
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dwak · Joined: 03 Nov 2002 Posts: 839 Location: Eastern Ontario

J1NX3D · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 1333 Location: New Zealand

thanks everyone for your help. i'll see what can be done in-country before i look overseas. cheers john, i'll try turbo vehicles!
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J1NX3D · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 1333 Location: New Zealand

Mike from turbo vehicles couldnt help me, and suggested contacting europacific

Im asking for help from Aussie pelican board users now
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sandgroper · Joined: 07 Dec 2002 Posts: 108 Location: in limbo

wow,mike healy ex huntly,used to drag a turbo v6 anglia,with tilt front,small world

J1NX3D · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 1333 Location: New Zealand

YEAH!! Might have something solid. Paul Hanson from Autobahn is boxing up all his turbo bits and sending them up to me. he says theres enough for a complete turbo except for the seals. i just take what i need and he'll work out a reasonable price later! guddman im a happy man!
cheers
john for the ph no.

mike healy is really helpful, but jsut couldnt help me. he suggested a garrett conversion also!
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