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00Smurf · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: Is this the right way?

Finally got this thing changed. Just to be on the safe side is this the correct orientation of the filter. Car is a 1980 porsche 924 turbo.

924RACR · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject:

Looks right, though your photo is almost too close to tell. Flow pointed to the firewall, right?
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Smoothie · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:58 pm Post subject:

Whoa - let's not confuse the lad.

The firewall is actually ahead of the cowl area where the fuel filter resides,
so flow is away from the firewall, toward the windshield.
(In other words, it flows toward the rear of the car.)
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DOCO · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:23 am Post subject:

the fire wall is just below the windshield aint it?you know the part the booster and master bolts to

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D Hook · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 3158 Location: Omaha, NE

Judging from the location of your paint sticker, it looks to be correct.
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00Smurf · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:29 am Post subject:

924guy · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:51 am Post subject:

you guys make this too complicated...

arrow points towards dash.

im not sure how much a backwards filter would affect the fuel flow, but id think its certainly a possibility...
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Ozzie · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:12 pm Post subject:

Obviously the US has the filter in a different place than ROW.
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Rich H · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject:

I was thinking that too.

Maybe its a RHD thing. Mine is on a braket on the LHS shock tower, arrow points upwards

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Mike924 · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 2601 Location: IoW UK

It's a turbo, guys. The fuel dist is on the other side of the car from the NA. It's no surprise the filter's in a different place.

Smurf: The pipe in the direction of the arrow should lead into the fuel dist.
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00Smurf · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:54 am Post subject:

-nick · Joined: 16 Nov 2002 Posts: 2699 Location: Cambridge, MA

Toward the windshield is correct. I think he means that if you follow the outlet line all the way around (under the windshield), it ends up at the fuel distributor.
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Smoothie · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:06 am Post subject:

Ya, 931 fuel takes a crazy route - from under the rear of the car, up into the left side of the engine compartment,
back through the upper part of the firewall into the fuel filter in the cowling area, out of the fuel filter toward
the windshield, under the windshield and over to the far right side of the cowling area, forward through the upper
part of the firewall on that side, then continues forward to the fuel distributor at right-front of the engine
compartment. -That's only for an LHD 931.
RHD 931s (UK, Australia, NZ, etc.) I think have the battery on the left side, and the fuel filter at the right side
oriented with its' flow direction forward..?
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00Smurf · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:10 am Post subject:

craziness. lol I think i'm about done with this car. I've found some good deals on a 944s2.