How Tuneable Are The Non Turbo Engines

[ukandy]

Hi All

How tuneable is the 3.6 or the 3.8 non turbo engine. I have a C2s with the Crono package but would like to get the BHP into the 400 mark. Is this possible by adding a larger thottle body, exhaust manifolds, cat replacement pipes, induction kits etc???.

I keep looking at buying the single mass flywheel and thottle pipe off Sharkwerks website as they claim good results for adding these two items but the cost is quite high and i dont really know if i'd be getting good bhp for £ or $.

What do other people think please??

Thanks

Andrew

[Loren]

If you want 400 HP (or more) out of a normally aspirated late model Porsche my advice is to buy a GT3.

You will need to spend a lot of money to come close to that number on a 997-1. Don't believe all the 3rd party hype - those HP gains are not what they say they are.

[porsche998]

Had the same idea to give my 997S-1 extra power - but realistically all results are close to the X51 option (380bhp). For instance cargraphic offers the 25 extra bhp at around 5k EUR (http://www.cargraphic.de/index.php?/s,6,7,18,1771,1773,2520/&start=3), including 200 cell cat., sport exhaust, etc. The GT3 option is interesting, but not for me as there are no seats for kids ... and this is required to give the device the required women acceptance factor.

My option is to wait for prices coming down on the used Turbo S (530bhp) - maybe with the next economic crisis . One can then take advantage of an original build car - it can be put under the Porsche approved warranty for up to 10 years and does have better resell value.

Cheers,

Tobias

[PAULSPEED]

I have a TPC supercharger off a 2006 997 that I will be selling

soon. I know I am not to post prices but it will be about 1/4 the new costs.

Paul

[porsche998]

Here is another tuner that is close by the research facility: speedArt. They offer a three stage tuning option and the final level has 405bhp, for the facelift S tuning even 420bhp. :clapping:

[355bhp]

Take a DE class.

[porsche998]

did not notice that the english pages on SpeedART.de don't work.

But doctor google may jump in: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.speedart.de/de/programm/leistungssteigerung/porsche_997/index.html&sl=de&tl=en

[fanboy]

Had the same idea to give my 997S-1 extra power - but realistically all results are close to the X51 option (380bhp). For instance cargraphic offers the 25 extra bhp at around 5k EUR (http://www.cargraphic.de/index.php?/s,6,7,18,1771,1773,2520/&start=3), including 200 cell cat., sport exhaust, etc. The GT3 option is interesting, but not for me as there are no seats for kids ... and this is required to give the device the required women acceptance factor.

Glad to see someone else has to keep the little lady happy. I had to choose between a 997 Cab or a Cayman... guess what direction I was pushed into. :)