80’s Porsche Runs Like New!

1987 Porsche 944 S running through a couple gears. The base 944 is a great car, but the S version with a double overhead cam variant of the same 2.5L 4 cylinder engine makes a huge difference. The base engine is rated at 143 hp/137 ft-lb’s vs the S’s 188 hp/170 ft-lb’s. Before I drove this car I had read and seen several people say that there’s really no difference between the base and S due to various reasons either the most common one being the different gear ratio in the transaxle. Because the S has about an 800 rpm higher redline the gearing was slightly taller. Having driven base 944’s I always scratched my head when I heard that, knowing the up/torque ratings for both. I can assure you that you can feel every bit of the extra power in the S. The S also comes with the turbo brakes.