Porsche 924

Hey!! This is the first video of my car since the engine blew up during the summer…I’m now commuting 35 minutes to school everyday and its working! Hoping to convert to Megasquirt EFI this coming summer. For those who don’t know about this car, it is a 1978 Porsche 924, with a non-factory BAE Turbocharger on it. It put’s out a good amount of power, sounds cool, and is fun to drive.

This is footage from the fifth event of the 2009 Northwest Region SCCA Autocross series. The event took place at Hampton Mills in Packwood Washington on June 21, 2009. You’ll notice that the car is not my usual Miata 10AE, but a Porsche! My co-driver Glen Hernandez offered his car for the event, and I was happy to take the opportunity. It’s a 1988 Porsche 924s Club Sport. With an extra 10 horsepower and an amazing extra 40 foot pounds of torque compared to my Miata, it matched this course very well. The long stretches of acceleration, and overall lack of transitions, made this car a much better choice for the event. Jerry Jenkins commented that in the Northwest Region, we don’t have rain tires, we have rain cars! Well, I don’t know about the rain, but that’s pretty much true. If given the chance, of course I’ll take the better car for the course! Now if I could just get the hang of driving my own car fast, I’d be set… Seriously, the only events I have won this year have been in other people’s cars… (Thanks Rick V. and Glen H.!) This was my fastest run at 55.177 seconds. I grazed a cone going into the chute, but it somehow stayed upright, and touching the box. (Whew! Lucky…) Indexed, this put me 14th overall for the day, and 1st in class! Boo-Yah! Take that S2! Here’s a link to the results: www.wwscc.org

having fun with my porsche 924 RaceCar in middle of the night.

I’ve often heard it said that there’s nothing more expensive than a cheap Porsche.  This is probably true for air-cooled Porsches.  The 914s had a tendency to rust horribly on the frames, necessitating an expensive, time consuming fix.  All air-cooled 911s have ludicrous engine rebuild costs — and rarely make it much past 100k without needing one. But the water-cooled Porsches are a different story (I hope!).  The 924 (other than the turbo model) is simplicity itself.  With its plebeian Audi 4

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What’s more expensive than a cheap Porsche?