Great advise, you give such a nice perspective on how the upgrades impact the driving, and what is accually nessesary for a great daily/weekenddriver+. Instead of a full KW coilover suspension rebuild for 3,5k on parts.
Great video! Just had to admire how clean your engine bay is haha, the car I’m going to purchase also has Koni shocks! Glad to see a video with them, I agree they felt very nice helped the car not feel like it was rolling in corners very grippy as you said. The option for sport shocks is 031 as it’s on the option sticker on the car I was looking at.
@@TakeFlightGarage ugh dude I wish! Still waiting on a PPI and him to figure out what he’s doing with the fuel lines…(they’re original so he wants to replace them before selling) and technically the car is over budget so I’ve gotta talk with my parents about it, perhaps try negotiate with the seller for a lower price.
@@ireiaand tell him you’ll take it as is without the fuel lines (you can then just buy the rennbay kit for I think like $90-$130 and have your chance to wrench on it. That’s the only thing that’s a bit weird about him listing the car for sale if he’s not really ready to sell it Yanno? The over budget part is tough but I’ll give you the same advice I gave to another viewer in Germany who’s shopping for an S2 (out there those things are selling for 25-30k) don’t stretch yourself super thin on buying the car in the first place, because something can always happen and it would suck for you to spend a ton of money on a car only to immediately have to have it sit. Since he’s taking forever to do things like the fuel lines you can use it to your advantage to save a bit more money in the meantime to put you in a bit of a better position to buy it (say after a couple more paychecks or something) but in the meantime I’d still keep looking because a better deal might pop up.
@@TakeFlightGarage ah yea that’s what we were thinking, but he insists on having them replaced. I guess he feels worried the car might catch on fire as one of his buddies had his go up in flames for the same reason. Oh wow I didn’t know they were that pricy there, would’ve thought the opposite haha. Yea I think especially as a first car I don’t want to spend too much acquiring it, this one is currently at 22K still a good price just might be too expensive for me. I’ll have to see later this week when I talk with my parents as they’re helping buy the car, maybe if we can get it down to the higher teens it might be better for us. Definitely going to continue to keep a look out! As you said a better priced one may pop up, saw one that did although it had a rebuilt title (hit a curb apparently) for 15K exact same car otherwise mileage condition etc
@@ireiaand there’s an auto updating list of all the 944s for sale on fb market place that someone made and put up on Reddit, talk about kid in a candy store hahaha it’s a dope thing just to go check out and browse!
@@AK_918 You’re right in that there’s two different part numbers. However from what I understand it’s not the stiffness, one is meant for the cut a strut insert and the other is meant for the replaceable cartridge. The part number I ordered was 8641-1038 sport. The other part number is for the 87+ cars 8641-1414. There’s actually a physical difference in that the later cars have that little nut on the bottom. It’s meant to lock the cartridge in place when using the cut a strut on the later cars as you’re supposed to drill out a hole in the housing for the nut to fit through, so that a bolt can be threaded in from underneath.
Great advise, you give such a nice perspective on how the upgrades impact the driving, and what is accually nessesary for a great daily/weekenddriver+.
Instead of a full KW coilover suspension rebuild for 3,5k on parts.
Great video! Just had to admire how clean your engine bay is haha, the car I’m going to purchase also has Koni shocks! Glad to see a video with them, I agree they felt very nice helped the car not feel like it was rolling in corners very grippy as you said. The option for sport shocks is 031 as it’s on the option sticker on the car I was looking at.
@@ireiaand stoked so is it a done deal then????
@@TakeFlightGarage ugh dude I wish! Still waiting on a PPI and him to figure out what he’s doing with the fuel lines…(they’re original so he wants to replace them before selling) and technically the car is over budget so I’ve gotta talk with my parents about it, perhaps try negotiate with the seller for a lower price.
@@ireiaand tell him you’ll take it as is without the fuel lines (you can then just buy the rennbay kit for I think like $90-$130 and have your chance to wrench on it. That’s the only thing that’s a bit weird about him listing the car for sale if he’s not really ready to sell it Yanno?
The over budget part is tough but I’ll give you the same advice I gave to another viewer in Germany who’s shopping for an S2 (out there those things are selling for 25-30k) don’t stretch yourself super thin on buying the car in the first place, because something can always happen and it would suck for you to spend a ton of money on a car only to immediately have to have it sit.
Since he’s taking forever to do things like the fuel lines you can use it to your advantage to save a bit more money in the meantime to put you in a bit of a better position to buy it (say after a couple more paychecks or something) but in the meantime I’d still keep looking because a better deal might pop up.
@@TakeFlightGarage ah yea that’s what we were thinking, but he insists on having them replaced. I guess he feels worried the car might catch on fire as one of his buddies had his go up in flames for the same reason.
Oh wow I didn’t know they were that pricy there, would’ve thought the opposite haha. Yea I think especially as a first car I don’t want to spend too much acquiring it, this one is currently at 22K still a good price just might be too expensive for me. I’ll have to see later this week when I talk with my parents as they’re helping buy the car, maybe if we can get it down to the higher teens it might be better for us.
Definitely going to continue to keep a look out! As you said a better priced one may pop up, saw one that did although it had a rebuilt title (hit a curb apparently) for 15K exact same car otherwise mileage condition etc
@@ireiaand there’s an auto updating list of all the 944s for sale on fb market place that someone made and put up on Reddit, talk about kid in a candy store hahaha it’s a dope thing just to go check out and browse!
Just curious what the part number on the bilsteins you took out were, as I know there are two different stuffnesses for the fronts
@@AK_918 You’re right in that there’s two different part numbers. However from what I understand it’s not the stiffness, one is meant for the cut a strut insert and the other is meant for the replaceable cartridge. The part number I ordered was 8641-1038 sport. The other part number is for the 87+ cars 8641-1414. There’s actually a physical difference in that the later cars have that little nut on the bottom. It’s meant to lock the cartridge in place when using the cut a strut on the later cars as you’re supposed to drill out a hole in the housing for the nut to fit through, so that a bolt can be threaded in from underneath.