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.
Over the past few weeks, Titan Motorsports has been prepping James Innes of Innes Performance’s VX Civic hatchback, piloted by Titan’s own John Ferguson. The two have been collaborating on the car for some time now and have even won The East Coast NHRA Sport FWD Championship in 2006! Currently the car has undergone a complete refresh, based on IPG’s specifications/Titan recommendations and boasts such parts as a GSR bottom end, B16 head, Borg Warner S-372, G-Force transmission, Mickey Thompson 26×10 tires, and full Strange suspension.Additionally we have had to add 140 lbs. to make the 2500 lbs minimum weight requirement. We chose to put it in the passenger floorboard to help with the weight distribution. The Civic was dynoed in the heat of July and put down 860 hp to the wheels at 35 psi. The car ran 9.70 in the Florida heat recently and should be even faster when it travels to Englishtown, NJ for the Outlaw FWD Shootout on October 11-12th. Best of luck to the duo, we will post more on the Shootout and the Civic after the event.
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.
Here at Titan we have the pleasure of working on cars from all over this country, and even cars from countries in other continents. It’s not an uncommon site to see a transporter delivering the cars as this is the most efficient method. We use Exotic Car Transporter almost exclusively for all transports, as they’re local to us and offer world renowned service and care for some of the finest vehicles in the world. This week one of their newest trucks showed up, a single car enclosed box truck that elevates to allow the car to be removed. What was inside the truck……not a Supra, not a Porsche, rather V6 swapped Flat Black TC owned by Mike Lipson, one of our employees. The car arrived unharmed, although it’s probably about time Mike finished the car and got it running, more updates to come when he finally does.
This weekend at ADRL’s Dragstock V, Titan Motorsports became the first ADRL 10.5 car in the teens with a blistering 4.158 @ 172.67. After this amazing performance in pre-race testing, the team then went on to qualify #1 with a 4.184 @ 173.32 in Friday night’s qualifying session. After advancing to the Semi-finals with victories over Kenny Kneece and Rick Fleck, Titan’s day ended in the semi-finals with an uncharacteristic red-light by Gary White giving Darrin Hoyle the win. With a very consistent weekend of passes in the 20’s or quicker, Titan moved to 4th place in the ADRL Battle of the Belts. The season ending ADRL race takes place in Ennis, Texas on October 24-25. As with all ADRL races, we will be sending out free tickets to this event, email jons@titanmotorsports.com with your mailing address.
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.
This weekend we traveled to Rockingham, NC for the ADRL race. One of the benefits of racing all over the country is the ability to visit other shops in the local area. Our wholesale department is one of our largest divisions, we supply many key components and parts to other tuners and often work to create custom solutions to parts problems for their lineup. This trip we decided to check out Underground Racing in Charlotte, NC about 80 miles away from Rockingham.
Underground Racing is known for producing the fastest street Vipers in the country and have recently begun producing twin turbo kits for the Ford GT and Lamborghinis. The quality of their work is impeccable and they run a great operation in Charlotte, NC. After seeing what they’ve done in the Viper market, I’m sure they are likely to succeed in the Exotic arena as well. We look forward to working with them on future projects.
I would also like to thank Kevin and Casey for allowing us to tour their shop and use a lift to PPI our 996TT project. We look forward to working with Underground on future projects and wish them much success.
Titan Motorsports will be participating in the Hushpower Dragstock V at Rockingham Dragway on September 12-13. Come join team Titan as they take on Mike Hill, Billy Glidden, Todd Moyer and all the rest for what is sure to be another exciting event. Look for Titan to be quite competitive with something up our sleeve (and on our shoulder) to make for a good show and some great runs. We’ll see you at the races!
Last evening Nero and his girlfriend Deepal, my fiancée Jessica, and I had the pleasure of attending the Cars for the Cure Event Preview being held at Starports gorgeous hanger at Sanford Airport. We take great pride in giving back to the community as much as we can, and Cars for the Cure allows us to mix our greatest passion and our desire to help others. This annual event occurs the first Saturday in February and benefits the American Lung Association. There were a few open spots inside the hangar so we decided to bring our project 996tt to display; we were in great company as you can see in the pictures below. Lamborghini of Orlando had the new LP 560 and as well as a RR Drop head Coupe. It was a treat to be able to sit in and enjoy Lamborghinis newest model, and while similar the upgrades over the previous Gallardo truly make a grand impression. We plan on experiencing the performance of these cars in November at a private track event and look forward to future blog postings after that event. Overall it was a great social event, and a great start to the months of planning that will lead to another great Cars for the Cure event in February of 09.
