TINGY944

Lovely colour and a very nice car

You know cars Ronnie.....

Nice job Rob, that's awesome

I have an 11 year old belt in my possession which still looks new and i have seen a 996 operate on the strings of a shredded belt, these belts are very strong, sure they have a limit but don't believe all the hype, like i said earlier the rollers are more likely to fail before a belt will

I nearly got one of these when they were at around $35k this one looks honest.

I guess it hasn't self destructed so all is ok, right? From what i have seen these belts will last a long time, maybe not the rollers etc. I will give the guy the benefit of the doubt, it may just be an old sticker left on, could be good buying if it checks out ok.

I have purchased 3 cars without ppi's, i have had no problems with any of the cars. Usual maintenance items on each car and each of the owners were upfront with anything that was needed in the next 6-12mths. Did all the homework and eyes wide open except for one which i made a decision on in a week and the car was off market, actually 2 cars off market, but that is another story. If i had a bad vibe from the owner i would walk away, i have my own rule of thumb, if i open the bonnet and it looks like a shitter, it probably is, so again, walk away. Sounds wierd i know but i ask lots of questions that the owner should know and if they pass my little test i buy their car

Why?

Did he mention he has spent thousand's? See, now back on track

Group buy anyone? @symsy https://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/Porsche-911-Carrera-1996/SSE-AD-4662118/?Cr=6

Back on topic, anyone rang, enquired about, driven, know who owns this car, why hasn't it sold? https://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/Porsche-911-Carrera-1995/SSE-AD-4884165/?Cr=22

We won't mention what the volcanoes spew out every day either. Think you're going to have pink lungs, keep dreaming fella

Not sure to be honest, the lap top was hooked in to the ECU and it was done on the street by the tuner and i didn't ask. We had been down there since early afternoon and all i wanted to do was get out of Sydney and away from the doof doof ricer scene, nothing wrong with that by the way if that is your thing. These young guys with seemingly endless amounts of cash paying tuner's immense amounts of money to build these cars for them so they look like 2 Fast 2 Furious. Late model GTR's with the running gear stripped out and replaced with better components and engine's rebuilt to make more power cost's an incredible amount of money and that was only at one shop. At Gas Racing they do the rotary's as well and they had 6 in the shop and four of them were over 30yrs old, i don't know how those little old chassis hold up with all that power because i don't think the bodies were strengthened too much.

So the car was dynoed again after some issues were sorted resulting in 1134rwhp @34psi and more than 1500nm torque. That was just to find out peak power output, the stall converter and custom built gearbox are said to be holding back 150hp but hey, who cares. The car was put back to a "street tune" running 20psi just to keep it manageable for the moment and the Motec ECU is a great bit of kit to help with engine management and switchable maps. I'm not really into drag cars but while the car was getting tuned at Gas Racing i had the chance the check out the drag cars they have there and the immense power they get out of the turboed 6cyl jap 2J engines is amazing, over 1800kw running over 150psi of boost and a 6.2 sec quarter mile, and a scary looking car to be inside of.

I have just come across this thread, my first question is, why would a 944 engine need to be rebuilt after just 230,000kms. I think Jason is pretty close to the mark......................although i hate to say it When you say a "rebuilt engine", is this total or top end, there is a big difference in rebuild price, unless it's a one owner concourse car with less than 100,000kms on it, i wouldn't be paying overs for it. Original paint? gearbox overhaul? Torque tube overhaul? A/C? new radiator hoses and associated bits, engine bay wirirng etc etc etc, if you want to know what this stuff really costs PM @Jason E