944 tuning

[white-star]

greetings. i have recently purchased a stock '84 944, and i love the car dearly, but let's face it, they aren't the fastest cars on the street. with a fairly tight budget in mind, what would you suggest doing to it to increase HP/performance? any help would be greatly appreciated.

[YeTi]

what i did to get some cheap HP was first, i put in a K&N filter.then i put a throttle response cam into it (doesn't give more HP but it gives the car better respone to the gas pedal). i also chipped it, but my chip only raised the rev limiter to 7500 RPM (or somthing like that) and added like 3-5 HP. i put bosch platinum 4 pronged sparkplugs. i have heard of people taking out the power steering system, but i wouldn't like to have to wrench on my steering wheel to turn at low speeds. i was going to take out my a/c but i couldn't get the a/c delete bracket in time before my a/c compressor blew. you can always put in bigger fuel injectors, but i'm pretty sure yo'd have to mess around w/ the ecu. i also put a low temp. thermostat and fan switch to keep the engine cooler (i recommend this highly).
well, i could go on, but you could ask cbass or one of the other 944 knowledge gods and get the whole shebang...

[white-star]

thanks for all the help, YeTi. did you just throw in a regular K&N filter, or did you find the need to put a filter firewall in like it was suggested in a previous thread?

[YeTi]

i put in one that went into the box...
but if you're going to go the cone route, you should get the firewall.