Living with a Porsche 944

After refreshing the injectors I fitted them along with the fuel rail and a longer fuel return line. Notice the nice red water return pipe… Fitted a perfect length flexible coolant hose from CBS which does away with the convoluted setup that was on the engine - fits nicely with the new intake and throttle body setup too. I ordered a new S2 oil dip stick guide tube from my OPC and fitted that along with a new seal. This one is a perfect fit for the S2 intake -  the 8v and S versions just don't fit correctly with all the hoses around the back of the intake manifold. Then it was time get underneath to refit the alternator belt and refit the power steering pump. Straight forward. I had the tensioners sand blasted along with the other bits previously, they cleaned up well and then with a little paint looked good enough to go back on. It's not good to look at the underneath of your car - you just want to clean everything!

The alternator had been rebuilt not long ago but it was in need of a refresh cosmetically before going into that nice clean engine bay. So I gave it a degunk, and wire brushing before applying a coat of high temp aluminium spray paint... But before fitting it into the engine bay it was attached to it's nice freshly powdered alternator bracket! Then, and only then, did it seem right to fit it! It's looking good in there!

It's freezing cold all over England. I'm sure you've seen the pics. It's the ice age in my garage - not the best of times to get the alternator out for it's rebuild. To make matters worse I think I may have just botched this whole rebuild idea by breaking the pivot bolt. The head just sheered off completely, requiring the removal of the whole alternator bracket with the alternator attached. Thankfully there was a bracket to remove or it would be game over. Hopefully Roger from Power Components can sort this for me - if he can get to work in all this snow!