Thanks. They've done a fabulous job with my car and this is my car's second long visit there -- first was for Champion intercoolers and the Tubi catless race exhaust and GIAC Stage 2+

Car runs perfectly without any issues as everyone in the New York area and at community and the rally community will tell you.

Champion takes their and doesn't rush anything. That's why it makes sense to actually send the car down there instead of having somebody up here do the work. They don't treat you like a number but like a valued customer.

Unfortunately the dragstrip they use for the quarter-mile, PBIR, is now only doing it once per week now and as a result the crowds are tremendous so you get virtually no runs. I would love to take it for a spin at PBIR before bringing it back up here but my next few weeks are absolutely crazy so I doubt it will happen.

I would not expect the car to be in the nines unless I was using some drag radios or maybe R888s.

 

I was there at their shop the other day and your car was being handled with kid gloves and i could tell they were rolling out the red carpet for you....keep us posted on the slips!!!

 

Thanks. Tom and I have been talking about this upgrade for about a year. We both hoped the bigger housings would be produced by TIAL but since they were not these stock housing 68mm Turbos seemed like the next best thing. And I see many ByDesign customers who have them and love these Turbos including a good friend of mine here on Long Island.

I have been to Champion a number of times and the cleanliness of the shop and the fact that it is Porsche only and that is designs and makes much of the mods and their warranty made it a no brainer for me to go back there for the Turbo upgrade. My car worked perfectly after I sent it down there for Stage 2+ with Champion intercoolers.

Just don't expect me to break any records with it. That was not the purpose of this upgrade. I will live vicariously through Mark and Jeff for those as they are willing to do lots more with their cars than me.

 

Your car looks great Scott - Champion is top shelf for sure.

 

Thanks. They even removed my rally stickers for a cleaner look!

I just don't want anyone here to be disappointed when they don't see my car turning 9's.

I'm not modifying it that much. I'm not even sure if my quarter mile ETs will improve that much unless I were to get R888 or Mickeys.

But I sure do expect a big bump in trap speed in the half mile runway events and a nice bump in trap speed on the dragstrip. I expect it to perform a lot better in roll racing as our stock turbos really run out of breath at about 120.

If I were going to get real serious about competitions I would get meth but not taking my car up to that power level

 

Scott just leave your car down here in Fl. Streetcardrags is doing another event in JAN. You can do what i did and lap the dragstrip. i never ran a cool run. 10.18 sec was the best.

 

At some point she has to come home.

 

I liked the stickers..gave your car a uniqueness

 

Thanks! I'm sure they'll be back on next spring. So far she's booked for two rallies next year: the Corsa Dragon rally in April, four days in pigeon Forge doing all the roads around tail of the Dragon. And she's booked on adventure Drives 04 in September which is seven days of driving through the Alps of Switzerland Italy and Austria starting and ending in Munich. And she will probably do fuel run from LA to Vegas in February. But I'll probably rent a car for that as it's too expensive to ship round-trip for a two day rally

 

Scott, I forgot are you lowered? I know it's tough on East Coast roads and it's hard to tell on 20's sometimes. Looks like not?

...Car looks great

 

Please, leave like this. Your car looks WAAAAYYY better and way classier without all the stickers.

 

Thanks.

Stock suspension and OEM sized wheels and tires. Want max ground clearance and bump compliance and no AWD fault codes. And I wanted to minimize the chance of a crack we'l wanted to minimize the chance of a cracked wheel.

 

When do they open registration?

 

Can you please send a link for the september rally (sounds fabulous)? Who are you using to ship the car?

 

You know I live to rally and this sounds absolutely fantastic. I'm still debating whether to ship the car or to rent something nice over there. Renting it is about the same price of shipping. If I rent I won't be without my car for three months. We're shipping via boat not plane so it's not that expensive but you'll be without your car in the US for probably 2 1/2 to 3 months.

well-known rally drivers go on adventure drives. Perhaps the most famous is Valentino Balboni the long term now retired test driver for Lamborghini.

Here is the link:

http://www.adventuredrives.com/ad-04/