After pulling the 997 out of the winter bubble on Thursday I had the pleasure of putting about 120 miles on it over the past 3 days.

I figured today was a good time to install the Rennline phone mount w/charger. Install video was perfect, it was easy to duplicate. The Uniden saved my bacon 3 times ...

Update 4/10/26:

Car has been at the shop this week and I spoke with them today. Overall, solid bill of health with a few things to address. Clearly we knew something was up with the cooling system and it looks like there was a leak at the heat valve, so they are taking care of that. The other ...

Thanks Tom

Tomorrow morning is another round of driving around the block to get it up to temp and making a mess with spurting coolant. I am also curious to see what the coolant level is in the reservoir after sitting all night as it was basically dry this morning.

One of the allures of the 924 ...

Hard to say from that alone if--

--You still have air pockets --most likely

--Your thermostat is stuck -- possible

--Or your gauge is lying - less likely, especially if it smoothly climbs from the bottom of the gauge until in the red.

How much coolant did you add? Did you add any after ...

Again, really appreciate the support here and my crash course in German engineered hydro-dynamics lol

I grabbed some premixed coolant this morning. I noticed when the car was cold (overnight) the expansion tank was pretty dry, below min line so I added some......worst case it blows out the overflow ...

Need a Gut Check:

So as I mentioned in previous posts I know there is something funky with the temp gauge/thermostat etc. The thermostat was replaced relatively recently prior to my purchase along with the water pump and radiator so I believe the core components of the cooling system are solid ...

Need a Gut Check:

So as I mentioned in previous posts I know there is something funky with the temp gauge/thermostat etc. The thermostat was replaced relatively recently prior to my purchase along with the water pump and radiator so I believe the core components of the cooling system are solid ...

I thought I'd share something I heard from Tom Barker, the guy who runs Augment Automotive and does some amazing things tuning and prepping 944's of all sorts. He has dyno'd dozens of 944's over ther years and he says that while stock turbos usually come in pulling the equivalent of factory spec ...

I think it is fair to say that for the normally aspirated cars there are some simple things that can be done to make it a little more responsive but if you want more impactful power gains there is a reason they made a 944 Turbo.

From what I can tell from reference material the primary difference between the 150HP 8V and the 163hp 8V was a bump in compression from 9:7:1 to 10:6:1. coupled with an update to DME, Bosche L-Tronic instead of K Jetronic