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Porsche 924
Dean - 16/12/03 at 06:06 PM

Would a porsche 942 engine work well in a locost?

chrisg - 16/12/03 at 06:23 PM

The engine would be good but the problem comes with the Transmission.

the 924 uses a transxle which (in the 924) is under the backseats/Hatch area - the thing is big and suspended by torsion bars. The clutch is in the usual place on the back of the engine, connected to the gearbox/final drive by a torque tube.

Having said all the above I'm sure someone has posted on here that they are using the 924, so maybe a search is in order.

HTH

Cheers

Chris

givemethebighammer - 16/12/03 at 08:53 PM

Might be wrong but thought the 924 engine was a VW/ Audi unit of some sort ?

Alan B - 16/12/03 at 10:04 PM

quote:
Originally posted by givemethebighammer
Might be wrong but thought the 924 engine was a VW/ Audi unit of some sort ?


ROTFLMAO...hope Chris doesn't know where you live..

ed_crouch - 17/12/03 at 08:19 AM

Err, the 924 engine IS a VW/Audi unit. Only the 924 turbo (and maybe the S) had Porsche built engines in.

Ed.

Mark Allanson - 17/12/03 at 08:31 PM

The 924 engine is basically a LT28 truck engine with a bit of porsche fettling

stephen_gusterson - 17/12/03 at 09:05 PM

we can say what we want now cos chris said hes away for a while

could be a ploy tho



i have always liked the 924

givemethebighammer - 17/12/03 at 10:04 PM

Forgive me for being stupid but ROTFLMAO
Alan ?

ps, knew it was a VW / Audi engine same as one of the Saab cars was basically a Vauxhall Vectra (Saab 95 ?)

JoelP - 17/12/03 at 10:20 PM

ROTFLMAOWSDFME

is

rolling on the floor laughing my arse off with *h*t dribbling from my ears....

givemethebighammer - 17/12/03 at 10:39 PM

thanks for the enlightenment

is that an original or just another one I don't know ?

Live my life in IT world 3 letter acronyms, so more than 3 letters just doesn't compute !!!

andyps - 17/12/03 at 11:05 PM

quote:
Err, the 924 engine IS a VW/Audi unit. Only the 924 turbo (and maybe the S) had Porsche built engines in.


The 924 Turbo was the VW engine with a blower on it - the 924S was basically the 944 engine in the narrow body.

Peteff - 18/12/03 at 12:04 AM

An acronym is an abbreviation which spells something like another word, like quango. ROTFLMAO is a bunch of letters which can be made into a word FLOORMAT so it's more of an anagram.

yours, Pete.

ned - 18/12/03 at 09:39 AM

so just to consufe things further, shall we say 'FLOORMAT' in future?!

Ned.

stephen_gusterson - 18/12/03 at 08:09 PM

rotfl whatever is a well known abbreviation

just not enuf lafs on here I suppose for us to see it often.

However, alanB might be persuaded to pose for us in a thong tho




atb

mr universe

paulbeyer - 18/12/03 at 08:43 PM

Oooohhhh no offence Alan but I just lost me dinner.

Alan B - 18/12/03 at 08:52 PM

quote:
Originally posted by stephen_gusterson
rotfl whatever is a well known abbreviation

just not enuf lafs on here I suppose for us to see it often.

However, alanB might be persuaded to pose for us in a thong tho




atb

mr universe


Don't tempt me...

Alan B - 18/12/03 at 08:57 PM

BTW....I wasn't comtributing one way or the other to the Audi/VW?Porsche bit...

Just commenting on Chris's hatred of folks questioning the "Porscheness" of his beloved car..

BTW...I'd be good in a thong...often told my ass is nice.....







sometimes even by women...

stephen_gusterson - 18/12/03 at 11:06 PM

a. too much info alan and

b. i forgot you had a digi cam - dancing with death making comments like that!


atb

steve

Dougw - 20/3/04 at 08:45 PM

well here is the answer everybody doesnt care about:
924 eng is form vw van (also audi used it) with a bit of jiggery pokery by porsche
924 turbo was same engin with blower on it
924s was porker designed engine, basically half of the V8 of the 928 which was OK
turbos worth a fortune so better sell than kill and 924S is still fetching a premium so may as well sell and buy a Kseries or whatever....better still a git big bike engine!!!