Living with a Porsche 944

It's been an interesting few days with the 944. New sounds, or should I say noises; new insights; and new challenges are plentiful. With the family mile muncher off the road the Porsche has been in daily duties of late acting as a family car. Which is less than ideal with no rear seat belts. My younger children find it quite comfortable back there actually. Friday past I headed down to Rye to meet a friend & client at Sumo Power. One of the top tuning workshops in the UK. Sumo Power also field a pair of Nissan GTRs in the FIA GT1 world championship and race prep a selection of Rally & Drifting cars too. The race cars are a sight to behold and the facilities quite exceptional. A great place then to hold a rolling road session on a project car. Besides the race car SP had a veritable smorgasbord of retro and performance cars to drool over. Such as a twin turbo'd Lamborghini with dry-ice cooled charge cooler: A convertible Aston Martin: A lovely Dod...

With such incredible weather this weekend it was great to stretch the legs of my 944 with two 90 mile journeys. In between the trips I topped up the Castrol oil for the first time since the big oil service last year. The engine took two litres of the good stuff. So that was well timed too.