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Member ID: SoundBoy4

Location: Raleigh, NC

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1988 Porsche 944

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-600sec
  • Top Speed-1mph
  • HP-1
  • Weight-1lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

Modifications

Performance Parts

Interior

  • MOMO Shift Knob 

Exterior Styling

  • PIAA Lighting 
  • Kumho Tires 

Car Audio & Video

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Robert’s Porsche 944

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This is what the new gauges look like. Sorry for the blurry pics but they'll have to do for the time being! Check out ProCarparts.com for them, 9xauto.com has some too. These people called Meister Gauge Faces can custom make them for you too and will color match your gauges, you'll have to search for their website though. Your best bet would be to keep a close eye on e-bay though, i got myne for 36 bucks there.

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Here's some pics of what the gauges look like in complete dark. They came with a switch that lets you control whether you want them to light up in blue or whether they light up in green. You can control the hue as well, which is helpful when you wanna cruise with the fogs on during the day but you don't really want that ambient indiglow stuff going on in the cluster.

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For christmas, the Porsche got a new Momo Race steering wheel, what do ya think ;) You can notice the controller that the gauges came with down and right of the steering wheel.

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Two more pics if anyone is still curious about the interior, check out the rear seats. They aren't TOO bad to sit in, i even caught a friend of mine taking a nap on our way to FMP. Here is a good shot of the floormats i ordered from VertexAuto.

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Some of the group before cruisin to Fayetville Motorsports Park

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Here are a couple of pics we've taken before hitting the back roads.

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Two of the many pics i took of a meet with the good people of brentroad.com
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Here's us Brent Roaders caravaning to Greensboro.

Here's a few pics of me Autocrossing. The 4 banger is surprisingly nimble! Check out the picture of the rear passenger wheel an inch in the air. For those of you who haven't take the car to an autocross event you really should. It's a really great safe setting to push your car to the limits (if you want) and really learn how to drive it in a bit more extreme situations. The 944 did really well, and there is always room for driver improvement :) I guess new koni shocks and a strut brace are next on the list.

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December of '03 i've just finished painting my tail lights using Testor's Candy Apple Red paint that i bought at a hobby shop. I taped off the area i wanted to spray and put a good 5-7 coats on it. It ended up looking pretty clean if you asked me. I'll put up more pics later.

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I replaced the worn out hood emblem with a new one i got from Paragon Products (link up top). Here is a pic of the new vs. old. I also just took out the top part of the rear seats. Nobody sits there anyways and the car looks a bit cleaner like that in my opinion.

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I spent the last day of 2003 installing neon's with the help of my cousin Jon. It was a pain in the butt to work in such tight spaces, but the two hour job got done. It's a very clean install, you can't see any cables anywhere, it's wired directly down from the fuse box to a switch left of the steering wheel, i went with blue because of the blue in my gauges and head unit.

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I just changed the red switch to a blue one, i think the red one clashed a bit too much. I think the switch was a much cleaner install than i expected. I put it in the same spot where the red switch went to the left of the steering wheel, if it wasn't blue i'd say it was stock!

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Friday, November 22nd, 2002. Out of 500,000 sites, not too shabby eh?. Thanks to all you cool people who vote!

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SoundBoy4's 1988 Porsche 944Well thanks for checking out the car. By the way, all the places i've gotten my new parts and upgrades from are listed in the links section up top. If you want a second opinion on anything feel free to drop me a line, i'll help out with what i can. MAKE SURE TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT PORSCHE OR 944 OR SOMETHING ON THE SUBJECT!!! or else it's very likely it'll get deleted with all the other hordes of junk mail i get. Take a second to vote on whatever poll i have up too.

Drop me a line and i'll check out your ride too!

Also check out my couzin's Accent after you sign the guestbook ;) i promise you won't find a nicer non WRC accent anywhere else

SoundBoy4's 1988 Porsche 944

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autoNY  

Posted by: autoNY

09/03/2007 03:15PM

nice car man come see mine i have a 88 944 turbo

FormulaBird99  

Posted by: FormulaBird99

10/05/2006 12:23PM

Really beautiful 944 you have there! I've always loved 944s and I plan on getting one in a few years and keeping it as a collector/show car. Check out my Formula when you get a chance.

944Porsche29  

Posted by: 944Porsche29

07/31/2006 10:53AM

Nice 944! I have a 86 n/a 944.
I got a question about the vtx inhaler,Did you feel a horsepower increase when you first put it on? And would you suggest getting one?

austin5522004  

Posted by: austin5522004

07/14/2006 06:17PM

Nice ride man. You made the right choice going with Porsche. I wish my dad would trade his BMW X5 on a 911. I have a 74'911S project going on down in Kinston. Check it out.

70zcamaro  

Posted by: 70zcamaro

06/30/2006 09:14AM

nice clean 944. was all the work on the car done by you? come check out my camaro sometime

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Member ID: SoundBoy4

Location: Raleigh, NC