On Saturday, some of the Titan crew visited Orlando Automotive Club’s monthly Cars & Cafe meeting in Lake Mary. This meet has seen an increase in attendance since its inception, and this month’s meet was no different with a reported 193 cars. All makes and models are invited to attend, and the variety of cars allows everyone to find something they like in the crowd . This monthly meet happens at Colonial TownPark in Lake Mary from 9AM to 11AM on the last Saturday of every month. For more details visit http://www.orlandoautomotiveclub.com/

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.

We recently began developing our line of Parts for the Porsche 996/997 Twin Turbo platforms. With years of experience building some of the fastest street and race Supras in the country, we decided to begin working the Porsche platform in hopes of building another series of ultimate street cars. The Porsche was a natural progression as it offers a lightweight well tuned chassis and factory twin-turbo charged power plant. We have owned our Yellow 996TT for over 3 years now, but decided to start with a car that was a bit rougher to push the envelope and build an all around monster turbo.

The first step was locating the right car, we searched across the country for the past 1-2 months searching for a good base car and eventually found one in Charlotte,NC for a fair price. We where heading to Rockingham last weekend for an ADRL race making the transaction even easier.

The car is a 01 996TT with 64,000 miles on the clock. We wanted a higher mileage car as we will be tearing it down to the tub eventually, and we wanted to have a car with a bit more mileage to truly test our kits. We plan on building the car in multiple stages, the first to develop our street parts on the car, and then eventually the car into a street/race car similar to our Supra. The street portion of the build will happen over the next few months and we will be updating the blog every step along the way with pictures and new product releases. Here in Florida we normally test and race in the winter when the weather cools down, and this season is looking to be the most fun yet with this new acquisition.