Well...she's finally here! Last week we finally took delivery of our stunning black 2014 991 Turbo S. In a matter of about 15 minutes, it was already up on a lift being inspected by the team. As most people suspected, there are some pretty key differences between the 991 and the outgoing 997.2 Turbo. However, there are actually quite a few things that have remained unchanged. More on that in the coming few weeks.

So...on to the good stuff. The first order of business was to get a baseline dyno number on the car so we could begin the first stage of ECU programming with our partners at GIAC. Surprisingly, the car does make just a bit more power in stock form then we've seen with the 997.2 TTS cars. To do the dyno testing we drove the car up to our friends at Horsepower Logic near Palm Beach. HP Logic uses an AWD Mustang dyno so we thought it would be best to baseline on a dyno that would be a bit more "universal" then our DynoJet. The car very consistently produced between 480-485 horsepower and 455 lb/ft of torque at the wheels. Not too bad!

Feel free to ask if there's anything you want to know about the new car. I'll be happy to go drive it again and let you know!

For now...enjoy the dyno sheet (attached) and pictures of the car. Bookmark this thread for updates as they happen.

 

Awesome Tom!

 

Sweet. Is that an Akrapovic exhaust i see under there?

 

Nope, no Akrapovic on these.

 

Akrapovic must be the OEM provider.

 

Nope...this car has a Boysen, just like all previous Turbos.

 

This is an absolutely bad@ss picture!

 

Looks awesome Tom! I'm sure you'll have some very neat plans ahead:P

 

Love it. Thanks for sharing!

 

Amazing car!

 

Beautiful car, tell me is it the basalt or regular black. I really like the all black interior too.

 

Tom, don't mean to question you, but this looks like the Akrapovic stamp, and I know they made the OEM exhaust on my 997 GT2.

 

I can see you haven't wasted any time using those massive 410mm front rotors, already showing signs surface cracks! Nice!!!

I would imagine lots of new suspension components will need to be fabricated and tested in order to get the proper ride height an alignments for track use.

All wheel steering = lots of linkage.

Looking forward to watching the development of these new beast!

Cheers,
VID997

 

Congrats and subscribed.

Vid the surface cracks seen are how they come from the factory. Porsche has been listening to all of our pccb complaints. Time will tell how much of an improvement we will see in rotor life/track use.

 

That car has got some serious beef to it. Looks really aggressive. All about that *** .
If you get the chance please let us know regarding the coolant fitment.
If it has been improved or still connected like the previous generation where an adhesive was being used. Grats on the car.