It’s finally time to begin installing parts on the camouflage Porsche. Our original plan was to install the complete K24/18G kit this week along with the clutch, however scheduling conflicts made us decide to hold off another week. Instead we sent the factory ECU off to Tony @ EPL to reflash with his modified K16 Map which includes both a brake boost feature and 2 Step. We expect to have the ECU back on Friday in time for another trip to Bithlo for some additional passes down the 1320.
Since we had to wait on the ECU to be flashed (in the coming months we will have in house programing available for all EPL products), we decided to remove some more weight. We removed the factory tank of an exhaust which weighed 57lbs. We opted for AWE straight pipes weighing in around 7lbs for the pair, an overall savings of 50lbs off the back of the car!!!
While we where at it we removed the factory battery (stock is 52lbs, the one removed was aftermarket and weighed 41lbs). In place of the factory battery we installed a Deka / East Penn ETX-30 battery and made a custom bracket out of aluminum to hold it in place. The new battery was 21lbs total, saving us another 20lbs off the front of the car. We will be using a trickle charger when the car will be without use for an extended time period, however we opted for the ETX-30 rather than the ETX-14. The 30 is about 10lbs heavier, but should offer a bit of security should the car not get driven for an extended period of time.
Total savings for the day was 70lbs. We’ll be off to the track on Friday with less weight, extra power, and hopes to get kicked out for going 11.5X without a cage. After that it’s more power, less weight, the perfect combination for a better overall car.
After a few crazy weeks of traveling, we finally got the Porsche paintjob completed. 4-5 hours in the paintbooth behind our shop, probably 15-20 cans of Krylon camouflage and enough fumes going to my brain that I’ll be high for weeks. Overall I am very happy with the end results, and the opinions of those who have seen the car have been 50/50. It’s a love hate relationship but that’s exactly what I wanted to achieve and either way it draws 100 times more attention than the factory silver.
I Just returned from the SEMA show to find a good bit of progress to our Porsche Project. We are fortunate enough to have a small body shop located behind us called Pars Autobody. While I was away at the show they handled the wet-sanding, prepping, and painting of the door jams on the car. If all goes as plan she’ll get a nice coat of olive drab camouflage tomorrow night, with more pictures to follow.
It’s been a few days since we have done anything with Project 996TT, the main reason being we where waiting for our replacement differential to arrive. The stock differential decided to destroy itself on the dyno 2 weeks ago (we sent the car to a local AWD dyno and the car was run with the rollers unlocked, causing this carnage). We managed to find a replacement diff on 6speedonline.com and hope to have the car back in action later this week.
Next up: More track testing and a custom homegrown paintjob you won’t want to miss.
Today our jumper harness arrived for the 996TT project. What looks like a mess of wires and plugs will evolve into a plug and play tuning solution that will allow the end user to use a Motec standalone computer to control the engine without having to rewire the entire car. There are plenty of great flash tuning options out there for the 996TT, however the Motec allows many advanced functions and real time tuning using a standard PC laptop.
This is obviously the initial stage of the project, and it should be realized there is quite a bit of development still to be done. With other tuners such as Switzer already achieving success running their Turbos with a standalone, this product will bridge the gap allowing a plug and play solution without modifying or cutting the factory harness
I will be the first to admit this solution is not for everyone. For your average car a reflash will be more than capable of controlling everything you need and then some. However for those racing their cars frequently, looking for additional data, track mapping, or with fuel demands much beyond the stock ECU’s control this is a great solution. The Motec offers proven hardware, however as with any standalone it is up to the end user to find a trusted source to tune the box. Fortunately Motec is widely used in most motorsports here in the states and abroad, and there are plenty of tuners available for hire to tailor the box to the end users needs.
Many thanks to RC for sending us a set of their 60lb injectors to test in Project 996TT. These injectors will require minor modifications to the rail for a tight fit, but we hope to have available full instructions and possibly a modified rail if necessary. Larger injectors are available to test as well when the larger turbochargers get bolted on the car.
As of right now we are awaiting 2 front tires, the modifications to be completed to the K24s for the 18G upgrade, a replacement differential, and suspension to proceed to the next stage of our project. We hope to have everything completed in the next 2 weeks.
Thanks to Mike @ AWE, our straight pipes for the 996 project arrived today. Since this car is primarily going to be used at the track and mild street duty, we decided to save some weight and give the car an obnoxious tone at the same time. This setup should drop 50-60lbs off the back of the car, as always we will scale the car after the install and get some video of the sound during our next track visit.
Unfortunately our dyno session on Friday did not go quite as well. We sent the car to an AWD dyno, and the rollers where not locked during a run, taking the diff out in the process. Lesson learned the hard way, but something we will fix and try again. We may convert the car to RWD for a short period while we locate a replacement diff and get it installed.
Today the UPS man arrived with the HRE P43 Monoblock wheels we have awaiting our 996. We opted for the same texture black finish as found on our yellow car, but went with the P43 straight spoke look to mix things up a bit. Unfortunately the tires did not arrive as quickly as the wheels, we’ll have them in next week and hope to mount the wheels at that time.
In the meantime we’ll be getting some baseline dyno numbers on the car using CFT’s AWD Dyno, and hope to do some more baseline testing at the track this evening as well. As always check our blog for up to date results.
We took the Titan Porsches out last night to Orlando Speedworld. On its maiden Voyage Nero managed to run a 11.79 @ 116, with an amazing 1.689 60 foot. All this was accomplished on a bone stock car running pump gas and stock PS2 tires at full pressure. We did remove the rear seat and spare as illustrated in our blog, so the car weighed 3404lbs with a full tank of fuel(w/o driver) . Nero backed this pass up with an 11.964 @ 116 with a 1.61 60 foot. The car hit the limiter in first slowing the overall time down.
I also ran our yellow K24 car on 1.2 bar and managed a 11.553 @ 121 and learned a valuable lesson to turn the PSC off. My best 60 foot for the night was a 1.80 spinning through 2nd, so there is quite a bit of room for improvement.
We expect to have more baseline information on the Silver car, and currently have a massive parts list building up for the first state of its build. We expect to begin that install in 1-2 weeks when our brand new K24/18G turbos arrive.
