t urbo 996 turbo

[GardinerG]

^^^ as he said.

[t_urbo]

i had this conversion found here http://www.imagineauto.com/996tt-04.htm

I looked into this and sent an email, I just would not have the confidence to start sending ECU's half way round the world and then trying to find someone to put it all back together again afterwards. Not on a brand new car that's under warranty. Good for you though for doing it on yours. DMS vs Ray West for me at the moment.

the front end was really alive!:

This came as a surprise to me too! Discovered that the AWD is apparently set up to behave like this deliberately - to make the whole experience more, well, scary.

I would go back to imagineauto purely because they have far more experience in tuning porsches than any UK based company. Their knowledge on the engines is second to none.


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07 Model Year RS4
04 996 Turbo SOLD

[TWH]

Been out in the 997 Turbo, and I agree, that's one scary car! The ceramic brakes stop it so quick the ABS can't cope! It doesn't half dance around though on English roads. Hit 140 in no time and the front end was really alive!

But as my mate put it, it is a motorbike with 4 wheels. You can dart through any gap you want to. If only they could put a dsg system on it as the tiptronic's just not doing the car justice. Then again, manual cars run their clutch out after 4k miles on average and can't really cope with the power on take off!

Beautiful car - even better in the flesh - love the gun metal / titanium style grey on it!

And I agree with you on the exhaust simon, with just a little better engine note it'd be perfect, but much more power would just be totally insane

I have to say i Have driven the 997 turbo and it drives similar to the 996 and i cant say it danced anywhere, it's so surefooted it unbelievable.
I Think you missed a Zero off the 4k for the clutch. It should see you well for 40,000 miles.

Hopefully so, only going form what my mate was saying working on them every day. Obviously it depends how you drive them, but he did say that unless you're very carefull, they can really slip a lot and that he'd expect one to last not long at all.

As for the dancing, it was only once you hit 140 - 150 odd on a less than even dual carriage way, but it was definitely very noticable. And the sport mode was enabled so that the suspension was ready for the speed.

I'm sure as you get used to the car you can compensate and pre-empt that kind of thing - it was the first time in a 997tt for both of us

[harperboy]

Excuse my naivety but what do you mean by the ''dancing''?

[audijohn]

Excuse my naivety but what do you mean by the ''dancing''?

Well, 1 2 3---1 2 3 La la la de dum de I you lonesome tonight , you know that kind a stuff.

[TWH]

Lol, sorry, earlier in the thread, we were discussing the front end of the car dancing over the road at 140+