944 Turbo problems any help appreciated

[PHOENIXUK]

Hi;

Bought an old 87 plate car as a Lock down doup, its been stood a while but was told it worked fine when parked up.....That old story.. I took the bait :-(

To start the car at all you have to unplug the AFM, then it will start fine and tick over beautifully but you can not rev the car more than a couple 100 revs more..

Plug the AFM in and it will start but stop immediately, not after a few seconds or revving but as soon as it fires it stops.

I have de-capped the AFM and internally it looks perfect everything moving freely with no visible wear or water ingress, it looks
a very simple set up and all seems to be fine, so I am thinking do I have a DME unit fault?
Just wondered before I send it off for checking is there anything else, obvious to a 944 owner that I should check first?

Thanks for any pointers,

[IMI A]

This is why now they are all old I stick to aircooled. Far more reliable. I’d get her to a 944 specialist like Augment. Ask them to asses if money pit or not in first instance. If money pit sell her as I promise you’d have been better off getting a minter for £20k than spending good money on a car that may always be problematic

[guards red]

Check the rubber parts for an airleak. I suspect you have a hole in the air supply somewhere downstream of the AFM.

[PHOENIXUK]

Not there seems much interest but since one person was kind enough to offer his thoughts.. Update.

DME unit was buggered, 4 days & £250 later reconditioned and running as sweet as you like @ 167K Miles.

[IMI A]

Good cars. Very unreliable my own one owned 3 from new and expensive to run. S2 had far more sensible running costs but I was doing 15k miles a year in those days. Let’s see a pic

[supersport]

I had mine for about 11 years, bought at 187,000 miles and ran to 230,000 did track days and holidays in her. Always felt that nothing could break her.

In the end, rust did for her. Although she was bought by a local chap and I understand she is almost road worthy again. Hope to see her back on the roads soon.

Great little cars.

[IMI A]

Theres one on collecting cars with 7500 miles. Advertised with tight straight panel gaps. Front lights and bonnet don't sit correctly IMO bid up to £22k and in not the best colour. Be lovely for some to do a Singer type restoration on one of these. With pumped up Le Mans body work will look so mean

[PHOENIXUK]

IMI A said:

Good cars. Very unreliable my own one owned 3 from new and expensive to run. S2 had far more sensible running costs but I was doing 15k miles a year in those days. Let’s see a pic

This is my second 944 Turbo, first was the first car I spent money on when I was 20yrs young, a few moons ago.

This one was parked up under a tree 18 months ago when it stopped working (DME fault as we now know...) i offered some money and now its sat in dry storage with my other stuff. I've tidied it up somewhat, Its not pretty but it could be, it needs new sills (inner's OK) and front wing bottoms and a paint but other than that structurally its good, all jack points solid etc. Engine and gearbox as dry as a bone, revs clean, oil clear and no signs of any nasties at all in the engine drive train department. Took it down our lane and the turbo spools up and it even breaks in a fairly straight line, other than wear on drivers bolster the interior is very good, no cracks and nothing missing. With the exception of the central locking not unlocking everything now works even the electric roof and pop up head lights! Just going to put the seats back in and take it for a longer drive to see how good/bad it really is, if the wastegate operates and get the brakes bedded in then it needs a new home;

Edited by PHOENIXUK on Friday 1st May 15:25