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right my son is splitting up a 1987 944...........
2.7ltr
auto
white
half leather/pinstripe interior
87k miles
teledials
private reg - AAZ 7134

all parts available, engine is a good runner and being an auto didnt have much abuse!!
car is complete so will strip parts off as and when needed, the car is mint and everything works

e-mail him- partylegend@hotmail.com
or phone- 07815942380

Hi & welcome

What colour is th interior?

all black

Thanks but not what I'm looking for.

Hi PM sent

Sad when they're worth more in bits than in one piece.

I'd be interested to know why it had to be broken , I.E what was gone especially as the 2.7 is quite a popular model ? Im not one of these foklk who say oh no don't break them, I'm just interested as to what went on it

Cheers

the rubber doughnut has broken by the flywheel and the part is £800 and the labour to do it is around £1500 at a porsche specialist and the owner cant afford this, so he just wants to get as much moeny for the car as possible, im just helping him out breaking it, a shame i know but if the funds arnt there you cant help it,

Common problem & well known much cheaper fix using a clutch plate (I think) to link it all up again. Clutch on a 944 should be about £600 (labour) or so depending on who is doing it & labour rate, so is fixable for a fraction of the above figures.
Either someone is winding him up or he actually wants to break it as he thinks it is worth more.
A shame as it is a rare car in good nick.

It hard work making money out of breaking a 924 or 944, the only parts sell-able are the engine, trim, electrics. front wings and breaks
Nobody wants the rest of it, doors and bonnets do not rust, rear screens are a fortune new, but worth nothing used (£25)

It would be better repairing it and then selling

but its an auto

Yes & the rubber doughnut is a driveplate. Quite right the driveplate is circa £800 from OPC but can be replaced with a clutch plate (old one as it is not used as a clutch) the rest of it gearbox out etc. is the same as a manual 944 (as I can't be ar5ed to look up the 944 auto gearbox out labour numbers) so the labour rate would be pretty much the same, hence my example. I reckon overall fix for £750 or so.
SIMPLES !

the rubber doughnut is rubber to dampen the engine vibration so it doesnt damged the torque tube surely? i cant see how a clutch plate can be used instead, this is surely a bodge and wont serve the purpose of the origional part, ....... also isnt the doughnut bolted to the flywheel?? so how can a friction plate be bolted on when the only contact it should have is the spline in the centre using the friction surface to grip the flywheel and pressure plate to create drive??

basically lads, this bloke wants as much money as possible for this car, there worth £3-5k all day long in this condition, (theres even a red one on ebay with slightely more miles for a little under £5k) so if you can fix it for £750 PM me a good offer and make yourself some money or have a cheap car!!!!

Yup look at a clutch plate it has springs in it, that dampens the driveline. The original 944 non-turbo clutch had a rubber centre & they breakup & get replaced with a clutch with springs in it
So yes it is a bodge but a perfectly acceptable one. I'm sorry when you are running £25K cars with a value of £5K then you have to think out of the box especially given some of Porsches spares prices. Lots of the real 944 specialists know about the above, have a chat to Jon Mitchell etc.
[Sermon mode on] No I don't want it, yes I could repair it but I'd end up in the divorce courts. If he genuinely doesn't want it then get it fixed & sold as a whole but don't break it for a reason which doesn't stand up. [/Sermon mode off]