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[kamyio]

So you guys have been the best help with reviving my old 1976 Porsche 924. After a year, it finally began running about a month ago after sitting for 17 years. She is my baby, and I love this car more than the world.

But.

Going through the local scrap yard the other day I found out that there is a 1979 Porsche 924 had just come in. I took as many engine parts as I could as back-ups, but then I got a wild idea. Getting these cars out of the scrap yard aren't that expensive and I've always just wanted to go full out on a Porsche 924 in styling (I'm a design major).

Adding a kit should be no problem, I am actually searching for a more Italian look with this Porsche, as well as a mordern Porsche look. But the hard part, the making it into a modern sports car is obvious. Creating a mid-engine Porsche 924.

It's dumb right? Why destroy a Porsche 924? Is it even possible? And that's why I am coming to you guys for information, should I really persue this idea? Or should I give up before it gets ridiculious?

Thanks so much for being one of the greatest forums I will have ever been on.
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Porsche 924

[Mike9311]

Do it

If its in a boneyard, you are saving not destroying.
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1980 931 since 1989
1981 Ideola 931 Club Sport
1982 931 Entwicklungsfahrzeug
1979 924 NA ohne 650 mit 471
1982 931 Red Resurrection - 951 IC
1982 931 parts car / resurrection?
1980 924 NA (R&D lightweight)
1982 931 wana-be GTR race car

[morghen]

giving up an ideea is bad but styling a porsche in italian ways is even worse

if you are a design major i'd like to see your ideas of how to modernize the 924. i've tried myself but opinions are shared...some say i did it..some say it looks like a japanese car from the front

to see what i'm talking about follow the link in my signature to my cardomain page.

You dont have to make it mid engined. Sure..you could...but you'd go too far in my opinion. If style is what you're looking for...the transaxle setup is just enough
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[Fifty50Plus]

Go out and get yerself a 911 engine and tranny, hog out the middle of the 924, weld in a bunch of mounting bracketry, throw out the 924 engine, torque tube and tranny, hook it all up and drive. You then have a huge honking front trunk for your golf clubs and one hellaciously noisy POS.

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1979 924 NA race car H-Prod SCCA
1982 924 NA race car - Sold
1981 924 Turbo sold
1982 924 Turbo sold
1972 911 E race car - traded for Cayenne Diesel
1975 914 1.8 Building for H-Prod SCCA

[Mike9311]

[morghen]

then we agree to disagree
i think they wasted their times and a perfectly good Porsche if they built such a thing
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Supercharger and EFI kits
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[Mike9311]

[Rasta Monsta]

SO not true.
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• WeiBe (1987 924S 2.5t) - 931 S3

[kamyio]

Wow, thanks for the comments guys! So in class I did a little sketch up, I know there are some proportion problems, but lets just say there may have a need for a lot of putty...


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Porsche 924

[Grenadiers]

search 'applebit' his car took on that transformation already. some people like it, some don't. I like the skinny 924 look, and the GTC look as well.
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'83 944 Track car.
'88 924S Track car.
'89 944 Turbo
2004 Winnebago Vectra monster RV
2012 Jeep Wrangler
2014 Kia Soul
2001 Ford F350 powerstroke

[JayZzzz4]

kamyio , where in Wisconsin are you?

I say go for it, what's to lose?
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White 1987 Porsche 924S manual

[kamyio]

about ten minutes outside of Appleton
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Porsche 924

[haroldk]

One of my friends is pretty hot on making a 924 or 944 into a mid-engine car. I'm thinking there may not be enough room behind the seats for a longitudinal setup, but a transverse layout might fit. The positioning may be tricky is you keep the torsion bars, but if you modify it to use coilovers in the rear and can chop out a portion of the carrier, I bet you could nestle something in there.
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1980 924 (for sale)
1984 944 (for project)

[Andrew NZ]

The reason sports cars are often mid engined is for balance and traction. They also have the passanger compartment further forwrd to compensate for the engine weight.

As 924s already have near perfect balance, you'd probably totally screw up the handling by making it mid engined. Just by installing a slightly lighter engine in the front of mine there is a noticeble change of balance and traction (just right for my driving style), but moving all that weight to the back would really kill it in my opinion.

Go for it with the styling, but forget about going mid engined.
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Andrew
1977 RX924 race car
12a bridgeport supercharged
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