944 redeaux

[DaCabrioGuy]

Did you buy those OZ Velas from a guy in Myrtle Beach? If so I was the guy that sold them to him haha.

[projekt EPiK]

that gamecocks sticker is from the PO. I'm in myrtle beach..let me guess, you are around orangeburg..lol

[SouthCarolinaGuy]

When you were washing the car you forgot to wipe that Gamecock sticker off, jk. Where in SC are you?

[projekt EPiK]

Jason, when this car is done (finally).. my son will probably be driving it..lol you know, the 7 yr old..haha

Updates.. i have a set of manual sport seats from a 1983 944, i've stripped the black leather that was in decent condition with some split seams and a few tears (the skins are on ebay right now if anyone is interested in vintage 31yr old Porsche leather). the sports will be reskinned in champagne.

i also have Koni m030 spec front and rear shocks, adjustable front camber plates, and m030 front and rear sway bars.

the dash trim panels have been hydrodipped to match the rosewood Dino steering wheel.

the engine is completely torn down, and (still) on the stand in the garage, but ready to assemble.

Oh, and I've since picked up a 1994 Lexus GS300 na-t with blown rings. That will be getting my Aristo 2jzgte single turbo, and the Lexus is already sporting the stock 1988 Porsche 944 base power seats from this car. A set of 18" Volk GT7s are sitting in the closet for it too. Maybe I'll do a build thread on it ..later

never enough..always too much

[Withers]

I want this car when you're done with it, FYI.

[projekt EPiK]

More buying stuff that doesn't make the car run...but it's so damn cool I couldn't pass it up. Vintage Dino steering wheel that was pulled decades ago from an early 914 and set on a shelf. It's in great shape, very few nicks, and the proper amount of patina to glorify it's age.


And as of today my other items are on the way too..looks like I'll have 3 oem steering wheels to sell and offset this build...keeping the Dino, in fact it may change my whole idea of what I want to do in the interior..embrace the woodgrain? Maybe..









Scouring the net to find some low....

[projekt EPiK]

Thanks Yakuza...lmao at your sig phrase..

Back when I was drifting we used to have a saying.."lift throttle=vagina"

[Yakuza Racer]

That is some nice work you have done thus far..... keep it up!

[projekt EPiK]

The weather sucked on Saturday with off and on rain, so the ti didn't get any work. I hungout in the Porsche instead.

Good thing too..my engine parts that I stored in the car had leaked thru the dropcloth I put down and I had oil soaking into my backseat


On a more positive note I found another custom touch I wasn't aware of before..rear speaker pods to match the ones on the doors. Cant wait to get some good components in there and crank it while ripping thru some turns

[projekt EPiK]

me too man thanks.

tomorrow I'm going to try and slam out some work on my other 318ti so I can sell it..then it's Porsche time

anyways...
today was the first over freezing temps in a while and everything was melting. it hit almost 60* here so i cleaned off the 944 by throwing snowballs off the wing at my son across the yard, and we gave her a wash, blow dry and a rub down.

[Nick475]

this is incredible. i cant wait to see it done

[projekt EPiK]

thinking about fabbing this onto the 944, to avoid the issues with the factory oil cooler seals going out and taking the rod bearings with it.

Fluidyne, -8 AN in/out 11" wide x 4" high x 2" thick. It's actually a retired NASCAR part I bought cheap off Ebay
a few years ago. Been hanging in the garage since I got it.






just sold my auto transmission so I should be able to finish the engine rebuild now

[projekt EPiK]

So no real work on the car recently, but that hasn't stopped me from collecting more parts.

Currently this is what I see behind the wheel.


But I'm about to pick this up, pretty much mint condition and at a really good price from a 51k mile car.


But then I started poking around the garage, and found this. From the donor car that I pulled the engine,
transmission and all the 5 speed swap parts from. The wheel is not good condition at all, but it has the
optional 30mm spacer on the back. This was even listed on the option card in the trunk. And the AGLA leather
shift boot. Now they are a chocolate brown, and my interior is black and tan, but I'm considering using at least the
shift boot in my car. It would be a way to preserve a little more of the soul of the donor car. And I just saw this
same boot and knob on ebay the other day for $140.


some other goodies too
factory tool kit


retracting hatch cover



sunroof bag



and a set of OEM wheel locks..no pictures.

more to come

[projekt EPiK]

small update. found the pics tearing down the head.




This tool repaid the $153.00 I paid for it on the MAC Tools truck over 10 yrs ago..the first time I used it. Awesome.




unfortunately no other news for now. got plenty to do but I have been sick and it's cold out.

[projekt EPiK]

inlaws are in town and sleeping on the hideabed so no TV for me..may as well keep going

Just uploaded a few more pics.

The front doorpanels have some custom sound pods in them. Someone loved this car for sure. Can't wait to get a good component set and put in here





Pulling the rear panels I discovered some heavy duty speaker cable, so apparently there may have been an amp at one time. Always been older owners,
so was probably done well.. I'll be stripping the car to the bone for the swap to manual and a few other things so if it wasn't done right before, it will be now. Currently has a Pioneer deck in it. Probably will swap to a new Blaupunkt..since the car came delivered with one new, and this is a restore/update.

Few more underhood shots. The PO did take great care of the car, and it was garage kept. He just wasnt the greatest wrench turner apparently.





I have done literally nothing under this hood (except blow oil all over the place) It was all the PO. The nice red intake mani will have to go though, the auto and manual ones are different. mine will be nice and clean too though.

Few shots of the donor engine in teardown phases, learning a lot here. It is very empowering in a long term involved build to be able to tear apart an identical car
with no regard to putting it back together. Helps you answer all the questions of how something comes apart? What's behind here? etc






This engine will be fully rebuilt except the rings.. the cylinder bores have a special coating, and since the engine tested 175-180 psi across all 4 when ice cold, that's good enough for me. The 88 NA pistons have a bit of a compression bump too, so combined with the head shave it should get me about 10.6:1. The car will never be "fast" but
it won't slouch either.

Here is a very nice, perfect running condition 113k miles boat anchor. I'm sure it's needed by someone..hit me up. I have ALL automatic transmission parts avavilable. Silky smooth shifting and no leaks.



random..here's the build codes for the car



I did score some goodies to keep from the parts car, the OEM 30mm steering wheel spacer for instance. Also a spare hatch in case mine delams, plus a few other things. Sold the cookies and Coco cloth script seats plus a few other things and recouped half my money already. Not far to go until the car is paying me back and the fun continues.