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Originally Posted by jpvarghese
HC, I guess we have different definitions of what's considered "highly" modified. Relative to stock parts, yes you can consider this "highly" modified since most pipes and couplings have been upgraded, but over all I would disagree. My experience has been from the Supra world, and something like this is considered a little higher than BPU (BASIC performance upgrade), probably BPU+++ tops. There is still A LOT of room to go, pending that everything can hold it. Even if he wasn't going 9's, I still think its crazy that these stock turbos are taking it to the 10s. That's what's getting me excited. Like I've said, I don't think there are many stock turbo cars that have hit numbers like this.
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Simply put, we are talking about a 570 hp kit with meth, additional mods and a custom tune that goes above and beyond the base kit by good bit. Add Micky Thompsons and all of a sudden, an increase of 7-10 mph over stock and a ET decrease of .9 isnt spectacular for what you've added. It's great that he's the first, but high tens for a cars with LOTS of mods on it that starts in the mid-high 11's is not a spectacular feat. That's all I'm saying.
Just like adding a 150-200 shot of NOS. It's not a lot of mods, nor heavily modded, but it adds a lot of power, and lowers times sginificantly.
You can find stock turbo 996 TT/GT2's without meth trapping high 120's with simply nothing more than a tune and exhaust and running 11.0 etc. Guys simply choose to do different turbos than risking meth injection which hasnt caught on with the Porsches yet. And Porsches are horrible drag racing cars for high hp applications. In fact, the Porsches and the Nissan are pretty much the only cars with turbos big enough (excluding veyron etc.) to run tens with the stock turbos. So it's not like there are 100 cars that should be able to do this because they have big enough turbos.
I'm not underestimating the effort, but I'm not overestimating it either. I think it's great, but not all that great.
BOTTOM LINE- I havent seen any dyno numbers for the car, but it's obviously making way more than 570 hp. It's weight-power ratio is only that of what it should be for that type of speed around that of a stock Z06 on DR's which have also run 10.7-10.8 with simply DR's added.
So what's the big deal, this is still power to weight.