As my Cossie pug is now near the point of regular use I decided it was time to start on the 944 that has been lurking in my garage for a few years. The engine was shot so I just binned it.

My thoughts for this are to make a cheap track car that I don't care abusing and if I want to do track days, drifting, airfields etc...so that it is cheap to run but not care about too much.

At the moment I am thinking of an Audi 1.8t 20v as these are cheap as chips if I break it and they produce 280 bhp for next to no money and 350 is simple. The best block for this is a 1.8t AEB from an Audi A4 or Passat as these had the block in right orientation and then use part of a Golf MK4 gearbox to hold the flywheel and Mate to an adapter for the torque tube.

My first option was a yank V8 LS engine, much more fun and nice noises but a much more expensive swap.

I have dropped the rear beam out and cleaned it up, removed the torque tube to Mate it up to the new engine.