Ok, so 3-4 years ago, I spotted two early 80s 924s ('s' as in plural not 'S' as in 924S) for sale locally for $1000. Neither ran, but supposedly, one needed a clutch and the other needed an engine rebuild. The idea was to piece together the best of the two cars. I was slightly familiar (as in knew they were decent performance wise) with the 944 and thought these couldn't be too far off. Subsequent to the purchase, I began reading about these cars and buying some replacement parts. After getting one new and one slightly used clutch kit, some over-sized pistons and some other odds and ends I realized that the 924 isn't near the car that the 944 is. My enthusiasm for piecing together a decent car from the two faded rather quickly from there. About a year ago, I started thinking about doing something with them. I began seriously considering stuffing a 5.0L Ford into one of them, which led to the purchase of a 97 Explorer engine (w/ GT40P heads and intake), a manual trans bellhousing and some other odds and ends. Somewhere along the way, I lost enthusiasm for this too, probably when contemplating all the work that needed to be done in order to get one driveable and the associated expense. So now I'm trying to decide what to do with these cars. My thoughts are as follows and in no particular order:
1) Sell them for scrap/part them out, try to recoup as much as possible.
2) Piece one together with an original engine, possibly with a custom home-made turbo setup.
3) Go forward with the V8 transplant even though the chassis and the transmission aren't really set-up for it (i.e. 1st would be useless).
Between the two, there is a fairly straight body, one decent black interior, one supposedly decent engine. Other than what is visually obvious, nothing else has been confirmed. I've never driven one of these, and my concern is that the performance to labor ratio is on the losing end of the scale. Any thoughts are welcomed. If I get ambitious and anyone is interested, I might post pics of the one at my house.
