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LeeXIX · Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 19 Location: Cleveland, Ohio

on my early '77 I was cleaning my electrical connections and I noticed that my air pump is not hooked up. The pulley turns ok but the belt is off. What do you think...should I remove the air pump and brackets or not? It would give me a bit more room in the engine compartment.
Also, since the car does not have a catalytic converter on it, It came that way according to the sticker on the door jamb, should I be using leaded gas in it?

Most of my previous experience was on air cooled cars, mostly VWs, and I know what running unleaded gas can do to valve seats unless you have them redone.

By the way. I checked and found that I have a new feul pump on my car. But now, it will only run for about 20 seconds before it studders and then stalls. I want to do more but the weather has not been cooperating here.

I need to correct a typo I made. I bought the car for $1,300.00 not $13,000.00.

Lee
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Khal · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:59 pm Post subject:

I run my '81 Turbo on BP Ultimate (98 RON Unleaded) and mine, like all 924's here, never had a catalytic converter (strangely, all the Gecko's around my place are three feet long and have two heads... I thought they might be Tasmanian but maybe I'm wrong?).

I've had no problems... yet...

I read on this very site a memo from Porsche which, IIRC, said it's OK to run the cars on unleaded. But again, mine's a Turbo... could be a different story for the NA's?
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Ozzie · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject:

I picked this up form somewhere.

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Raceboy · Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 2327 Location: Estonia, Europe

You don't need the air pump.
And 98 RON gasolineis the fuel to use, others result in power loss. 924 (at least Euro models) are sensitive to that, probably because of the higher compression ratio.
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