hello chaps
been a bit quite at work lately, like the rest of the planet :
and one of my pals who races a porshe 944 asked me if l would strip a 944 for him to get it acid dipped and then rebiult into a race car for next year, that bits not relervant except it explains why l have a 944 in the garage being stripped to a bare shell,
l have looked at the 944 before as a doner for a buggy, they are not as dear as you might think, there is some on ebay around the £100 -£200 mark
there are several things about the 944 that made me think about it as a buggy doner, the back axle is the same as the vw beetle but made from alliminium and fitted with disc brakes instead of drums, the beetle axle has been used millions of times in baja buggies and uva fugatives etc so nice and strong and able to take a beating offroad,
next the gearbox, its at the back probally simalar to a beetle box except the engine is in the front and thats the bit l like, 50 50 wieght distribution, the engine is connected to the gear box by means of a prop inside a tube ( torque tube ) clutch and flywheel is on the back of the engine as per normal, the way the torque tube bolts to the back of the engine is with 4 bolts and a flate plate, nice and easy to convert to another engine , nothing wrong with the porshe one except its very tall, some thing like a subaru would be easy to bolt up and would be very low allowing a very low bonnet line, essential in my view for a cool looking buggy ??
hers a few pics of the one in my garage at the moment, what do you think, has it got merrit ??
been a bit quite at work lately, like the rest of the planet :
and one of my pals who races a porshe 944 asked me if l would strip a 944 for him to get it acid dipped and then rebiult into a race car for next year, that bits not relervant except it explains why l have a 944 in the garage being stripped to a bare shell, l have looked at the 944 before as a doner for a buggy, they are not as dear as you might think, there is some on ebay around the £100 -£200 mark
there are several things about the 944 that made me think about it as a buggy doner, the back axle is the same as the vw beetle but made from alliminium and fitted with disc brakes instead of drums, the beetle axle has been used millions of times in baja buggies and uva fugatives etc so nice and strong and able to take a beating offroad,
next the gearbox, its at the back
probally simalar to a beetle box except the engine is in the front and thats the bit l like, 50 50 wieght distribution, the engine is connected to the gear box by means of a prop inside a tube ( torque tube ) clutch and flywheel is on the back of the engine as per normal, the way the torque tube bolts to the back of the engine is with 4 bolts and a flate plate, nice and easy to convert to another engine , nothing wrong with the porshe one except its very tall, some thing like a subaru would be easy to bolt up and would be very low allowing a very low bonnet line, essential in my view for a cool looking buggy ??hers a few pics of the one in my garage at the moment, what do you think, has it got merrit ??
