Porsche 944 turbo

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The Porsche 944 Turbo below has been my car for the past eight years. Its been the best car anyone could ask for. It never goes wrong and apart from a head gasket replacement in 1998,  up until this year has only ever needed routine servicing, tyres, and brakes.  This year I was going to sell it and move on, but I couldn't find anything that I could replace it with. So I decided to spend a bit of money on it and keep it for a while longer.  First came a Huntley Racing Chipset from the States, together with an Adjusta-boost valve. Now wound up and producing 300BHP I thought it was time for a clutch, a new torque tube bearing that had been irritating me in the background  for a while and a new KKK Turbocharger.  As it happened I had all the belts changed and a few tensioners and pulleys at the same time.

Check out my Porsche review at Parker's - 944 Review

The work was carried out by a former Porsche Trained Mechanic called Andrew Kirk in Argyle St Ind Estate, Birkenhead.  The turbo was rebuilt by The Turbo Clinic in Eastham on the Wirral.

Time for a little bit of good old-fashioned maintenance here

Chinese breather with 10mm outlets	No space for down there	Clear front indicator lenses	Cylinder No4
Cylinder No3	Cylinder No2	Cylinder No1	Closer look at the scratches on No4
Cleaned mating faces	Widefire gasket in place	Failure across water jacket on standard gasket	The other side view
Nice and clean		Inlet valves look clean	Exhausts coked up as normal
Widefire comparison	More evident this side	Cam lobes are ok	Followers are a bit worn
No visible problem there
Manifold wrapped in heat shield blanket	balnket fixed with s/s tiewraps
Done as per diagram from www.cannell.co.uk		Manifold back in position	Almost impossible to get these bolts back in
I cut a slot in the bracket in the end	There's the little bugger
Need to somhow join to the pipe coming off the breather		The suction is from here casuin me to burn oil	The Air Con saint
		Hard at work	Free plug:- The best Air Con man in town