944 Spring Plate Differences
 

Are there any differences between the 944 spring plates across the years?

Got Late Alloy arms and ?? Spring plates and they done seem to want to mate!!

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Look for '87+ 944S, 944S2, 951, 952, or 968 spring plates.

If you have "Late" control arms, that's what cars they would have come from.

The early late aluminum arms spring plates should be the same. 1985.5 to 1986 and the late 1987 + all have the same mounting hole pattern. Zen did the swap from early aluminum arms to late aluminum arms without changing his spring plates, I think...

correct. spring plate goes inboard of the trailing arm at the mounting surface.

Would I be right in saying that steel arm spring plates do not fit alloy arms?

:confused:

As far as I could tell T151, that is correct. I just checked and compared some parts I have in the basement. Steel arms will not work with spring plates for aluminum arms, and aluminum arms will not work with spring plates for steel arms. The control arm-to-spring plate bolt patterns are different.

944 steel arms have the same spring plate bolt pattern as stock VW. 944 aluminum arms (wide, or narrow) have a different bolt pattern that doesn't match the spring plates on VW Type I's, Porsche 924's, or 944's with 8 valve, normally asperated engines.

Thanks!

Off to the breaker then to look for 'aluminum arm' spring plates,

:o

Spring plate differences....
 

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