944S in Canada - long in the tooth project

[gruhsy]

If you decide to do custom exhaust.

https://www.unobtainium.ca/

Located 20 minutes from my house.

I’m in Calgary they are In Strathmore.

[500]

I checked out their site. Definitely looks like impressive quality!

Not sure what I will do in the future... Right now I am hoping to get things going nicely with the stock exhaust parts, but it is certainly good to know of a Canadian source that can do custom work. There is not a ton of aftermarket available for the 2.5 S exhaust it seems.

[gruhsy]

I checked out their site. Definitely looks like impressive quality!

Not sure what I will do in the future... Right now I am hoping to get things going nicely with the stock exhaust parts, but it is certainly good to know of a Canadian source that can do custom work. There is not a ton of aftermarket available for the 2.5 S exhaust it seems.

By the time you are ready I will have something for a turbo done by them

[NCGermerican]

I checked out their site. Definitely looks like impressive quality!

Not sure what I will do in the future... Right now I am hoping to get things going nicely with the stock exhaust parts, but it is certainly good to know of a Canadian source that can do custom work. There is not a ton of aftermarket available for the 2.5 S exhaust it seems.

MSDS offers a header for the 16V cars. I have one on my 87 S. Very nice but without a coating it rusts pretty quickly. It also has a 2.5" collector so you need some creative adapting to the factory cat pipe. Honestly it's probably not worth the price.

https://www.lindseyracing.com/LR/Parts/944HEADERS.html

[500]

A long gap... basically I have not done anything on the car since June of last year. In the meantime I did MAJOR rust repair on my brother-in-law's Buick Regal (took every weekend of the summer and fall, pretty much) and also got the Subaru project back on the road:

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However, we got the 944 project re-started this past weekend.

The spindles are now sorted and one side is done:

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When we had put the engine in the car in the spring, none of the wiring was routed or connected, so the first task was just to reacquaint myself with the lay of the land. Routing of all the wiring behind the engine will be tight, so I will have to take some time to get it right. To get things rolling we started with getting the DME harness through the firewall and that monster grommet set in place. It took some effort with the fingers, but it finally settled into place. Between that and the one spindle, that was about as much as we could get done in that session. However, did quickly dump the alternator in just to give a sense of getting more done! Things look pretty cluttered and disorganized in the engine compartment, but it should get better.

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We shall see how much gets done in this latest "push"!

[500]

Spent half of Saturday and only got 5% done what I hoped!

Wrestled for an age getting the big clamp for the DME harness as well as the DME ground and battery negative attached to the bell housing.

I guess this was the price to pay for the way I mounted the engine.

Still quite messy, and I have to re-route the injector portion of the harness, but things are starting to fall into their right place:

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One thing I did not get done at the back of the engine was the speed sensor bracket. I made and printed a model of a simple "gauge" for setting the bracket to provide the necessary 0.8 mm clearance. Hopefully the install will be a little easier than the other stuff.

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Slow, slow, slow...

[500]

Although it does not look like a lot of progress, this next step took me a lot of time...

I wanted to apply Cerakote to the exhaust parts, and originally wanted to sub it out, but quotes were quite high, so I decided to do it myself, which meant hours of blasting with aluminum oxide to prep the substrate. I had to spread it over multiple evenings to get it to a point that I thought was good enough.

I purchased a half pint of C-series Cerakote and applied it with a 0.8 mm HVLP detail gun and the result looks good. Cerakote has worked really well on my 911 headers, so I am hopeful it performs well here too.

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[Gaspowered]

Looks fantastic!

Cheers

[500]

Lots of other things going on, which has limited time on this project.

Things are slowly moving though.

moved ahead a bit with tidying the wiring routes in the engine bay:

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Clutch slave and lines are in:

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The exhaust is installed.

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Happy with the fit. I used a stepped band clamp for the slip fit of the flange piece to the back of the mid-pipe. Seems to be a good seal (I also used a film of silicone exhaust sealant on the slip fit. We shall see if it is actually good enough, but I am cautiously optimistic.

Rear view of the exhaust shows off the Glacier Silver Cerakote. I think OEM is for the back half of the muffler to be painted black. Maybe I should have done that, but I am going to leave this as it is.

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[Tom]

Everything about your car and your efforts looks spectacular! Just love seeing this level of detail on these car! Keep up the great work!