944 S2 Repair

[pauly]

First instance I've heard of cracked 944 cranks. Was one of them from the cracked block you had? Makes me wonder if seizures ,blow ups, or harmonics from a missing balancer belt caused it.

[sgl1966]

Not from the cracked block paul but one had spun a bearing and the heat from that probably caused the damage .

Changed the ford mustang throttle body over to an RS2 one , much stronger spring for better pedal feel and the TPS is an exact fit as the audi one is very similar but had to turn the shaft 180 degrees . It also stops that damn whistle I had from the other throttle body that was driving me to distraction . Once fitted and road tested found another handy feature of the vems ecu I didnt know about and took a while to find and a bit of head scratching as I had accidently activated the safe mode/anti theft which disables the ignition . This feature can be activated from your mobile apparently instead of a fitted alarm , no good for me as I often lose my phone which would cause a headache .
Also started on another 16v intake using a 2jz casting (ebay special) which is perfect length for the 968 runners , on the previous 1jz intake I used , I had to cut and remove a couple of inches to get it to fit .

[pauly]

I've often wondered what the benefit of the big double plenum inlet manifolds is?

[944driver]

Wow. What a 8/9 year project!
Amazing amount of work, have you kept track of costs? Or is the wife listening? Lol

[pauly]

Wow. What a 8/9 year project!
Amazing amount of work, have you kept track of costs? Or is the wife listening? Lol

I've spent longer than that just collecting parts....

[sgl1966]

You will be on the "Antiques Road Show" with those parts soon paul .

Very tight on space with a double plenum intake and decent size turbo I would imagine . You going 16v now ?

As for cost , no idea but as you see its been spread over long period of time .

[pauly]

I bought a set of Wossners from Baz Hart, and I've moved to a place with a double garage now. So maybe I'll get some new motivation. 16V manifolds were a step too far for me though, otherwise I'd have bought everything Baz had. I wonder who scooped it all up?

[sgl1966]

Not sure on that Paul , but here's a couple of pics of latest intake ready for a 16v turbo . Just getting flange skimmed then powder coated . I have a Jenvey 70mm throttle body with an evo idle control vale attached which the vems will be able to operate .
Spent most of the day on my back fitting the rebuilt AOR box , all went well till the torque tube joint decided it didn't want to go back on but finally gave in . Now all ready for mot .

[sgl1966]

Couple more pics on making the intake . Bought 4 Ducatti 51mm trumpets (£25 ebay) which I cut down to fit and had them welded on (welder not happy as high nickel content in trumpets) . Then spent some time further porting out the trumpets before welding on plenum .

[pauly]

Nice job. The MOT man didn't like the busted spring on the back my A4, so I spent the morning changing that. I won't complain about working on my 944 again.

[sgl1966]

Talking of mot's Paul .

Vems is very useful to lean it out or "do a vw" I have learnt .

[pauly]

My 944 needs an MOT in a month, reckon the TPS is goosed. I've run with it disconnected for ages, may try one of the conversion kits for a BMW TPS.

[Waylander]

Volvo 440 turbo one fits

[sgl1966]

I have heard this waylander but I struggled to locate a volvo turbo tps when I searched before admittedly only at a couple of places .

Paul sounds like a good time to install that vems ecu you have then you can run whatever .

[pauly]

Volvo 440 turbo one fits

Like Simon I did look for one, but I don't think they were much cheaper?