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More 948 nonsense...

The oil filter remote kit and cooler are now fitted, i have mounted the cooler behind the badge panel, and the plan is to vent the panel so that cold air hits directly in this area...



One of these designs will work well, anyone know who sells them? I can make one myself easily though.



Filter relocated here...



Radiator hoses connected....

Is anyone here actually following this?



On with the show, tonight i got the heater lines done, usually on any engine swap they are a simple matter of connecting A to B with rubber hose, but my 944 always suffered badly with faulty heater controls, to the point where i was getting fed up fixing it, you name it my 944 had that heater fault, i even thought about replacing the whole thing and i'm a mechanic!

Anyway as luck would have it i have no space under the bonnet for the stock control valve etc so with my car always blowing hot i can take this opportunity to ditch the Porsche way of controlling the heaters and use my own system, so i've used the complete heater valve and pipework from a Lexus Rx300 here which just happens to marry up very nicely with both the 1uz and 944 heater pipes.... so i'll run a cable from this and mount it under the dash binnacle somewhere.



No more heater problems for me ever again.

im following, love the colour and the work is going well

I'm following too

All of the 944 lurkers coming out now

Same people lurk here as PCGB I suspect.

It's a god damn lurk-a-thon!

Lurking and in awe! Can't wait to see this finished. Amazing work.

brilliant work - looking forward to seeing it!

Cheers all, glad you're enjoying the build.

I've started mocking up the intake on this, very difficult to find space to route a 3" pipe from the throttle body to a suitable cold air location. One thing that has to go is the factory washer bottle, it just takes up too much vital space for this conversion, so i will fit a much smaller bottle somewhere else.

For now the intake navigates the strut tower, between the inner wing and headlight motor, and it will end up with the filter low down at the front where the washer bottle base used to be, it will need shielding from road crap down there but it's the best place for it.

Incidentally you can order nice new expansion tanks via an OPC - it'll tidy up your lovely engine bay even more. I know cos I did it to mine

Oh right, that's good to know, the yellow tank is annoying me, is there a specific place to order them from?

Yup any Official Porsche Centre (OPC) some are better with older cars than others. Exeter, Tonbridge have a good rep in the south, not sure of the midlands or northern ones. Also you'll get a discount if you're a TIPEC member.

The standard one is 944-106-125-06 the turbo one is 951-106-025-02

And they are £190-200