Rally Pat

How old is it? What generation of i7? Before AMD's ass raping of Intel the last couple years, most of the enterprise grade i7's were only dual core with hyper threading and low end onboard GPU's to match. I fought this battle with out of touch boomer IT management for a long time. They were always like "But its an i7, thats plenty for _______ !", not realizing or not caring that when it comes to mobile CPU's, the name means literally nothing as there were like a dozen SKU's for every generation. Shouldn't be as much of an issue with something manufactured after the AMD curb stomping, but for sure any level discrete GPU would do marvelous.

The New Years curse claims another victim. My deepest apologies.

Depending on the complexity of the models you are looking at and the CAD software you are using, for the most part CAD isn't that demanding in 2019. Most potato GPU's can do it just fine.

When I joined CR I didn't even have a drivers license, let alone a car. I don't even remember how I found this place, I think it had to do with reading a Dispatch article about street racing and having a romantic idea of it from The Fast and the Furious. I have, to this day, never "street raced". lol I did find out about Autocrossing from here though, and through that got back in touch with Sean and his dad when I ran in to them at a Cooper event.

I think the motherboard is definitely overkill. AM4 is only going to be supported for one more year before it is replaced with what will likely be called AM5. I would get a cheaper X570/X470 or if it were me I wouldn't even bother and I would get a B series motherboard for $100 or less. I would take the money you save and put it in to getting a better graphics card. When it comes to memory, I always buy cheaper memory because the modules themselves are all made by the same handful of Taiwanese or Korean companies. In a way, memory is memory. I also would never pay retail for Windows 10, when you can get grey market keys for $15-$30 or if you have an old Windows 7 PC laying around with a product key sticker on the side, it will activate Windows 10 as well. Like Pakie said, the PSU is definitely overkill, especially since power consumption is trending downwards for PCs. Moreover, buying a PSU where you won't be operating in it's efficiency range could be in extreme cases harmful to your other components. Its rare, but happens. I would also ditch the 2 tb spinning drive and get a cheaper 2tb SSD. The Samsungs are bulletproof reliable, so those ones I wouldn't change other than maybe getting their M.2 NVME variants. There is certainly no harm in spending lots of money on your setup if you can afford it, but I have always allocated my budget for PC builds where they will do the most tangible good.

I have the even cheaper version of the first one and I've had it for like 9 years, but it looks like the motor is the same one on mine. It is a little hard to start in the winter if its REALLY cold out. Maybe the oil-less would operate better in those temperatures.

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Strip, road, whatever. :\

One less engine toilet on the road

Yeah both look alright. I would still lean toward the Ryzen machine, as you get twice the threads plus the games and Xbox Gamepass.

PC's are like cars. The question to ask first is "What are your goals with the machine?". AMD is completely curb stomping Intel right now, and likely will for at least another year. I would really lean toward a Ryzen 7 or Ryzen 9 machine for the crushing multithreaded performance and option to upgrade the CPU one last time on AM4 next year when Zen 3/Ryzen 4000 comes out. AMD has kept their promise to keep supporting the AM4 platform through 2020. Intel on the other hand, since Zen first launched 3 years ago, has been crying in a corner with PTSD from the market being completely turned on it's head and they have stumbled to make their years late 10nm process work. They have resorted to straight up lying in marketing slides and bribing companies to stay relevant. Their new processors, whenever they come, could be really great, but they are likely years away.

Get the Porsche running, I need life to slow down a little bit. Maybe buy a truck and slap a turbo kit on it.

Isn't this illegal? Have you called the police?

Ha someone beat me to it - one of my potential next projects after the 944 is a turbo 4.8 or 5.3 truck of some kind with basically that exact parts list minus a couple things. Looks awesome! The second gen VS Racing 78/75 makes a lot more power than the first gen, I think you are going to pass your target for sure! If you don't want to spend $1200 on a TermiX with trans control, which it is 100% worth it if you do, you can get a $280 Chinese standalone harness off of Alibaba for stock ECU. They work great. Then you can either tune with LSDroid or HPTwizzlers.

I'm trying to get in to any of the data centers over there, since I live on the edge of Westerville and New Albany. Need to pick up a few more skill sets.

At this point I was starting to run out of time, and I had some errands to do, but heres a preview of what I'm tackling next. I will have to jack up the car, drag it away from the wall, and pull the passenger side wheel to reach the fuel lines to cut and splice them. I also opened up the Vehicle Speed Sensor kit. I 100% have no idea where I am supposed to install it. I mean, probably on a wheel, but so much information in the 944 LS community is super outdated and I am pretty confident its not even necessary in 2019 LS Swap Land. Most of the documentation for LS 944's is based on a book a guy wrote back in the early 2000's and 90% of the swaps are richbois paying shops to have crate motors installed so research/experimentation is not really a thing. We have evolved, thanks to places like Sloppy Mechanics. I will install it if I HAVE to, but I am confident I won't need it.

I decided to finally unload the interior of the car. We had been storing all the stuff for the project in it during it's time at the shop, and I will need to start spending more time in the interior wiring it up, so it was time to clean it out. This thing has spent years outside - check out the sun fading on the carpet and on the formerly-red fender cover towel.

Couple more shots of the kit. While I was in here, I went ahead and put on the AN adapter to the stock corvette fuel rail.

The next major mile stone I want to handle on the swap is the fuel system. This is an all-inclusive kit from Texas Performance Concepts that includes all the fittings you might need as well as a Corvette filter/regulator unit from WIX. This is another example of something you could piece together for much cheaper, but its nice to have it all together. It comes with a little tubing cutter and compression fittings for tapping in to the stock feed and return lines. I haven't figured out what the steel braided line is for yet, maybe another year 944 had another return or something? I have no idea at this point.

Hey folks, thanks for being patient. Life is crazy right now, but trying to get stuff done where I can. We were out of town for most of the weekend in Indiana (stopped at IMS while I was there too!), but I was determined to get SOMETHING accomplished when we got back Sunday afternoon. First thing I took care of was taking the load leveler and chain off the engine after bolting the engine in for the last time.

More moving pictures, and a shot of the car where its going to rest for most of it's time here. My garage floor is epoxied and smoothe and level, so its super easy to maneuver the car around with a floor jack, but I will still probably try to get some dollies. I want to roll it outside, and give it a date with my pressure washer. Its pretty dirty. Thanks to Sean for helping me as usual! Look forward to more regular, but smaller updates from now until its driving. Its probably not far from actually starting, but its gonna take a while before its really on the road, given that its sat for so long. The suspension and brakes needs a lot of work most likely, and I also have some mods in mind for the remaining non-GM parts on the car.

Yesterday, with the worst of the heavy lifting work done, we were ready to move it to my house where I can chip away at it until it is ready to run.

I wanted to take another post to say thank you to everything who has helped out so much with this project, especially Sean and Scott Cordell. It really means a lot that people have gone out of their way to help make this project possible. Thank you so much!

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