Monogram 1/24 Porsche 924 Turbo

[Jonathan]

I guess it's complete.  I'm missing the gas cap and one of the brake lights - but I have a "Wanted" posting hoping someone has a junker they can spare parts from.   The phone camera really brings out the mistakes.   I was going for a "resto-mod" look.

[Phildaupho]

Looks good from here. Seeing fewer and fewer of these in the world. Really quite an attractive car.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Good looking model, great color for it.    

These are great cars to drive, but the engines are a PITA to work on, and very expensive to make big power with.

Which is why the hot setup these days (for people who don't mind "butchering" a car from the Porsche gods) is a Chevy LS swap. 

There's an adapter available to bolt 350-400HP worth of Chevy engine to the Porsche bellhousing. Use a GM computer and a stand-alone harness, custom headers, and you're running.

The car is actually lighter with the LS engine, too.

The stock Porsche transaxle (the 944 Turbo uses a pretty stout unit derived from an Audi design...very popular with mid-engine kit-car builders too) seems to be able to handle the torque.

AND...there's no shortage of broken-engine 944 Turbos around, cheap.

Edited November 29, 2017 by Ace-Garageguy

[Jonathan]

Thanks.  It's not going to pass inspection until I fix that one tail light and the gas cap.

 

[Classicgas]

Nice build.

[donb]

Looks pretty good to me too.  Like the color. 

[El Caballo]

Ha, I had a poster of one of those in red in college, up with all of the beer posters and Playboy centerfolds.

[89AKurt]

I have this in my junk yard.  I know where those wheels came from.  LOL