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[blueline]

Thank you to everyone who welcomed me on Page 160! I subscribed to this thread so I thought I would get updates, but I guess not. Sorry for being so late to respond! I have a few Porsche hobby projects I've been working on, and I hope it'll be ok to share them.

Absolutely yes to sharing Porsche projects. Pick the sub-forum that applies and start a new topic.

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[blueline]

Hi everyone, my name is Joe. Back in the 90s when I was 17 and looking for my first car, my Dad and I stopped in at a little used car dealership which happened to have a beautiful red 944. That car made such an impression on me. It was well out of my measly price range at the time, but we thought long and hard before ultimately deciding it wasn't the best idea for a 17 year old with no real income.

Well, I'm in my 40s now and just bought a red 1985.5 944 a couple of months ago and have loved every moment. Feels like it was always meant to be. Just needed the timing to be right. It's tucked away for the winter now, but I've got all sorts of little fixes and updates I plan to do over the winter (like replace my broken odometer gear!). I'm looking forward to learning tons from y'all.

Great to have you here Joe! Welcome to Carpokes!

[P_Coastal]

Hi everyone, my name is Joe. Back in the 90s when I was 17 and looking for my first car, my Dad and I stopped in at a little used car dealership which happened to have a beautiful red 944. That car made such an impression on me. It was well out of my measly price range at the time, but we thought long and hard before ultimately deciding it wasn't the best idea for a 17 year old with no real income.

Well, I'm in my 40s now and just bought a red 1985.5 944 a couple of months ago and have loved every moment. Feels like it was always meant to be. Just needed the timing to be right. It's tucked away for the winter now, but I've got all sorts of little fixes and updates I plan to do over the winter (like replace my broken odometer gear!). I'm looking forward to learning tons from y'all.

Welcome to Carpokes Joe, great story

[OneTimeCS]

Absolutely yes to sharing Porsche projects. Pick the sub-forum that applies and start a new topic.

Regarding not receiving thread notifications, maybe they are not correctly set for you? Check them via the drop-down menu at your user name near the top right of any page. Click on User Control Panel > Board Preferences tab > Edit notification options. Also, the other top and side bar tabs at the User Ctrl Panel have many settings you can adjust such as Manage Subscriptions.

Thank you! I just edited my email preferences so hopefully it works now. And I just made my first thread in the 3D printing area. Fingers crossed that I did it right.

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[blueline]

Absolutely yes to sharing Porsche projects. Pick the sub-forum that applies and start a new topic.

Regarding not receiving thread notifications, maybe they are not correctly set for you? Check them via the drop-down menu at your user name near the top right of any page. Click on User Control Panel > Board Preferences tab > Edit notification options. Also, the other top and side bar tabs at the User Ctrl Panel have many settings you can adjust such as Manage Subscriptions.

Thank you! I just edited my email preferences so hopefully it works now. And I just made my first thread in the 3D printing area. Fingers crossed that I did it right.


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You did the thread perfectly and it is a good one. I think your accelerator pedal enhancement here will be a great addition for 3-pedal track pack types!

PS- beautiful car too! Thanks for the pic!

[Turbo]

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[914PUTSCH]

Hi everyone, my name is Joe. Back in the 90s when I was 17 and looking for my first car, my Dad and I stopped in at a little used car dealership which happened to have a beautiful red 944. That car made such an impression on me. It was well out of my measly price range at the time, but we thought long and hard before ultimately deciding it wasn't the best idea for a 17 year old with no real income.

Well, I'm in my 40s now and just bought a red 1985.5 944 a couple of months ago and have loved every moment. Feels like it was always meant to be. Just needed the timing to be right. It's tucked away for the winter now, but I've got all sorts of little fixes and updates I plan to do over the winter (like replace my broken odometer gear!). I'm looking forward to learning tons from y'all.

Joe! Welcome to the "Good Ship LollyPorsche!" Your choice in P-cars is excellent. I've always had a closet-affinity for both the 944 and its design predecessor, the 924. Purity of design or some such underlying reason, I guess. I'm an old die-hard 914 man, myself, but if I were a collectors (with tons of money to do so), a bright red 944 would be in my stable and also a sunflower yellow 924! You story about your first (17-year-old) encounter with a 944 and a much later actual acquisition of (what sounds like) a great specimen is heart-warming (whoops! Let me quickly check the latest issue of 'The Guy Handbook' to see if such 'feminine' declarations are permitted!).

There seems to be a good, solid (and growing) 914/944 group in CARPOKES, so hopefully there will soon be some technical posts that may be helpful and informative! At any rate, you've got a great P-car. Look FWD to your further participation here!

[914PUTSCH]

Absolutely yes to sharing Porsche projects. Pick the sub-forum that applies and start a new topic.

Regarding not receiving thread notifications, maybe they are not correctly set for you? Check them via the drop-down menu at your user name near the top right of any page. Click on User Control Panel > Board Preferences tab > Edit notification options. Also, the other top and side bar tabs at the User Ctrl Panel have many settings you can adjust such as Manage Subscriptions.

Thank you! I just edited my email preferences so hopefully it works now. And I just made my first thread in the 3D printing area. Fingers crossed that I did it right.


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Wow! Porsche Racing Silver Cayman-S eye-candy, for sure! Nicely composed image of it, too!

[joe_morris]

Welcome aboard Joe! I bet a lot of us now own cars we pined after in our youth. I do! If you haven't seen it yet, we have a very detailed DIY guide for changing the odometer gear -- see link below. If you don't have the gear yet and want a free resin-printed printed version, PM me your address and I'll send you one as a welcome gift.

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Thanks for the very kind offer! A friend of mine is actually 3d printing me a new gear as I type this. But again, thank you for the warm welcome.

[Tom]

Welcome aboard Joe! I bet a lot of us now own cars we pined after in our youth. I do! If you haven't seen it yet, we have a very detailed DIY guide for changing the odometer gear -- see link below. If you don't have the gear yet and want a free resin-printed printed version, PM me your address and I'll send you one as a welcome gift.

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Thanks for the very kind offer! A friend of mine is actually 3d printing me a new gear as I type this. But again, thank you for the warm welcome.

Awesome, is he using the Carpokes STL? What material is he using? I have not tested anything myself other than the Formlabs Rigid 10k resin, which prints as hard as a rock. I do wonder if something like ABS on an FDM printer would suffice....