My 944 restoration picture thread

kongsodoken · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:38 pm

Well things moving along nicely

can not wait to get this home

Waylander · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2015 11:57 pm

Shame you have to fill it with oil and run it

Looks like it should be in a display case

Carrera RSR · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2015 8:01 am

Waylander wrote:

Shame you have to fill it with oil and run it

Looks like it should be in a display case

Can never be driven. It's too clean :wink:

PaulSmith · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2015 3:50 pm

Looking schweeeeet

Simon sure knows how to build clean looking engines, it will fit right in with the rest of your car

MichaelW944 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2015 7:15 pm

I'd love to do this but I'd guarantee i'll find a car which has a duff engine, spend all the time rebuilding it and find it's knackered and I didn't have the knowledge to notice while i was following the guides to the letter. I'd hate to think how much all the parts have cost too.

Waylander · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2015 8:03 pm

The answer to the cost question is Don't Ask!!!!

kongsodoken · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2015 8:50 pm

Digi944 wrote:

I'd love to do this but I'd guarantee i'll find a car which has a duff engine, spend all the time rebuilding it and find it's knackered and I didn't have the knowledge to notice while i was following the guides to the letter. I'd hate to think how much all the parts have cost too.

Well when I started thus I had no automotive knowledge, I have never serviced a car never changed the oil and had no tools and no garage, but there are so many good guides on the Internet and loads of helpfull people on here that give good advise it was really quite easy, I still have very limited knowledge but most of the work I do is cleaning painting and repairing.

Yes I've spent ££££££ way more than the cars worth but I've had fun doing it and the car is only going to go up in valve, I could have brought a Cayman but that would be going down in value at some point in the next 5 years I recon I will better off

MichaelW944 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2015 8:52 pm

kongsodoken wrote:

Digi944 wrote:

I'd love to do this but I'd guarantee i'll find a car which has a duff engine, spend all the time rebuilding it and find it's knackered and I didn't have the knowledge to notice while i was following the guides to the letter. I'd hate to think how much all the parts have cost too.

Well when I started thus I had no automotive knowledge, I have never serviced a car never changed the oil and had no tools and no garage, but there are so many good guides on the Internet and loads of helpfull people on here that give good advise it was really quite easy, I still have very limited knowledge but most of the work I do is cleaning painting and repairing.

Yes I've spent ££££££ way more than the cars worth but I've had fun doing it and the car is only going to go up in valve, I could have brought a Cayman but that would be going down in value at some point in the next 5 years I recon I will better off

How did you get the engine parts so sparkling clean? Did you take the parts somewhere eg the engine block/head to be checked over before you spent the time putting it all back together?

kongsodoken · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2015 9:06 pm

Engine work all done by Simon Peckham .....everything else by me

kongsodoken · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:59 pm

Well as Simon is getting on well with the engine I thought I should do a bit ....so picked up some nice new engine mounts from OPC and popped them in

and the other side

kongsodoken · **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:48 pm

Exciting times new bits arriving all the time, this is a standard build so I thought I better get a new one of these

if you look around amazing what you can get this was less than the cost of some used ones on Ebay

pilch · **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:17 pm

Can I ask where you sourced the air flow meter from?

kongsodoken · **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:40 pm

Germany

Search on eBay.de. £250

Endoman · **Posted:** Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:25 pm

Love this thread, very inspirational. Trouble is its rubbing off and I've already been down one slippery slope ref. Jackals Forge and his 993.

kongsodoken · **Posted:** Sun Sep 13, 2015 5:15 pm

Started to fit the front bumper but lots of repair work to do first I quite enjoy fixing bits that can not be fixed so started with the broken bumper tab

with a bit of moulding I ended up with

needs to harden overnight then I'll trim and tidy

The indicators were looking a bit sorry with the silvering coming off and lots of corrosion

So set about adding Aluminium foil to the reflector

half way there

The final result after some cleaning

I'm going back to the amber indicators so gave the lenses a polish and were go to go

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