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Ah the joys of track days
You always come home changed.
I had a Dolly Sprint which I used on track days for about 16 years and most were fun but getting hot was always a problem.

My daughter was tracking a black MR2 at Bedford on Mon..........was that where you were?

No I was at Teesside, its only 25 mile away from were I live so nice and local also cheap £50 for the full day, open pit lane.

Half the fun is building upgrading the cars to cope with being on track.

Oh I agree totally you start with a car that handles okay and gradually hone it to perform.
In the end our Sprint was doing Castle Combe in a regular 1min 30 and passed a lot of so called faster cars.
The Porsche 944 has a wonderful balanced feel and I know it would make a great track car even if the standard 160 bhp engine is left alone because its the speed carried through the corners that maketh the car, any idiot can point and squirt.
However I am just this evening fitting an oil cooler to my special sevenesque car for reliability for the purpose of track days next year............so many toys so many jobs

Thought I recognised that car. . . . I drive past it to my friends Land Rover garage all the time, sometimes in my red lux. . . .. small world eh..
Dave

Yes have seen the red 944 a few times, the blasting business is my mates. Were usually in on a Sat "playing" with the cars have a pop over sometime.

Piggy - I know where you coming form, carrying the speed into and out of the corners then carrying that extra speed onto the straight, for me that's the satisfying bit of driving.

Came to a decision this weekend to break the 2.7

The reason for not putting any more effort into the 2.7 is I have gotten out of it what I required, YES 944’s are incredibly entertain cars on the track, and not too bad on the road, and the view out the drivers mirror over the rear wheel arch, love flares!!!!!

I also stripped the damaged 87 Turbo this weekend, that I have had tucked away and have decided to concentrate my efforts into building a light weight track focussed 944 turbo, which was always the intention. Not going to be a show car that I will be scared of damaging, but a tidy well handling, reliable turbo’d 944.

At the star of this thread I stated I had purchased an early (Series 1) non sunroof car with no rust in the vulnerable areas and the plan was to use this to build my light weight turbo, after stripping the Turbo and the time scale I want to be back doing track days the series one is going to require to many alterations. I know a few said using a series one was the wrong way to go, and for the timescale I have set they are right.

I have therefore purchased another rust free non sunroof donor, this time a series two, should be arriving back end of this week.

If anyone wants Parts from the 2.7 let me know, engine is very strong pulls well to the red line, could do with the head gasket replacing which I can do if required, oil is amazingly clean, would make a good base for a large bore turbo (not the route I want to go down), Gearbox is good, torque tube noisy, all electrics work, front wings shot, box sill covers(dread to think what’s behind), brake calliper’s all been cleaned and sliders greased etc.

Over the past 12 month I have also purchased several 944’s with an eye to acquiring parts for the car I want to build, so alongside breaking the 2.7, I have x2 series ones, a series 2 lux, minor parts from the turbo.

I can also get parts blasted and coated if required, as my mate owns a blasting company, torque tubes, cross members, lower arms etc

Located in the north east, and would prefer pickup and cash for parts, that way u can see what your buying, send me a PM if you want parts.

RIP 2.7…..Roll on the TURBO…..