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.
Just got the paint in today for the Porsche project, it may not be what you think….
Standard Issue Diverter Valves where designed with the Porsche 996TT in mind, using a side vacuum pipe to allow for easy routing inside an already crammed engine bay. These billet diverter valves dump charge-air back into the air intake system and keeps external noise to a minimum. Featuring a piston design which is superior to the factory rubber diaphragm, this DV allows for quicker throttle response, higher clamping load, and more reliable control of boost pressure. The units are machined from billet aluminum and come only in a stealth black anodized finish. As with all Standard Issue products we pride ourselves in function over form, with products guaranteed to perform.
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**Will Also work in all VAG 1.8T engines, all VAG 2.7 Bi-Turbo engines.
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.
Next on the list was to get rid of some dead weight. We pulled the car into the shop and put our trusty Accuset scales to work. We made sure the car had a full tank of gas after our roadtrip, making sure we had consistent fuel weights included for future sessions.
We carefully place the scales under the lift and lowered the car down to get a base weight.
Total : 3,476lbs LF 679 / RF 653 / LR 1071 / RR 1073
We popped the hood and removed the spare tire and existing tools, as they likely won’t fit our future BBK and we have some HRE’s on the way.
Total : 3,437 LF 649 / RF 633 / LR 1081 / RR 1074
A 39lb drop in weight off the front of the car.
Next up we grabbed a few wrenches and removed the disc changer, rear seat, and floormats.
The end result was a total weight loss of 74lbs. Not bad for less than a half hours work and no money spent.