It has been a very long time since I updated the blog, so long so that I forgot the password! Anyway, after years of driving the 924 S as hard and fast as I could I figured I either needed to cha...
This isn’t a repost, I’ve been meddling again… In January 2012 I removed the 924’s engine and spent some very cold evenings replacing the seals. It was, without a doubt, the biggest mecha...
The end of it? Well… Having done all of the hard work piecing the engine back together I simply needed pop it back in. It all sounds so easy, in those terms. Sadly, it never really is. Once I h...
https://project924.co.uk/2013/07/12/engine-work-part-5-refitting/
Putting the new bits on. Having stripped the engine down, the problem parts removed, it was time for the fun part, putting the new bits on and getting the engine back together. With the top dead ...
https://project924.co.uk/2013/05/23/engine-work-part-4-repair/
That’s problems with the work, not the engine as such. I accept my 924 S for what it is, a cheap project, bit of fun, but a good car underneath. Well, it was once. I had also hoped that people ...
https://project924.co.uk/2013/04/16/engine-work-part-3-problems/
With the engine out it was time to get my hands dirty. Taking the engine out of the car, that was something I expected to take a little while. What I hadn’t allowed a lot of time far was removi...
https://project924.co.uk/2013/02/26/engine-work-part-2-strip-down/
It was my moment to enter the big time. Mechanically speaking. Taking the engine out would be by far my biggest job to date. Why was I undertaking this? Well, following an inspection by JMG Porsc...
https://project924.co.uk/2013/02/22/engine-work-part-1-removal/
The biggest change I could make to the car is… Changing the engine mounts. Mine were apparently shot, according to the guys at JMG Porsche. I had suspected there was something amiss in that dep...
Would there me any sharp intakes of breath? So, I had done my own assessment of the car, detailed in the appropriately titled, 924 S Road Test Assessment. Time had come to take it to the profess...
It happened for the second time today… For a while now the car has been running really well. Excepting that “really well” is a relative term. Once I got over the non-runner bump in this pro...