Hey Brother hope all is well. Your car is doing great congrats! Glad it is all sorted. So much fun when they are running perfect 100%.

I think at the event you went the ES team had some turbo issues. But they fixed it and then posted a 176 vbox and then back to another half mile event up to 178 just bolt ons on their ES750 setup. That was with Ark Ady's car. So they have two ES750 991's doing this and I will admit way outta my league.

I do run in a different environment and it tends to be warmer in fact my 174 and 173.5 back to back runs was over 90 degrees F. We haven't had a cool day for Shift Sector in a long time maybe 2 years. So it's a bit tricky to get the power/traps out here. But still I'm down quite a bit of power and If I wanted to push then ES has shown not only here but worldwide they have done a fantastic job.....and they arent my tuner but I have to give respect where it's due.

We've had some good development but I also have to be honest that this platform is also soooo far behind that even the built motor 991 at Shift Sector's pikes peak event turning 193 was nothing special for that event maybe 40-50 cars posting higher traps. So for me if I wanted to push then it would need to be another platform altogether. But hey in the meantime I will still enjoy the car on the street / track it's such an amazing machine.

 

Totally agree, Adam. Anything higher than a FBO setup on a Porsche and it's like the Twilight zone with only limited people with their own proprietary data that they won't share which is totally understandable but frustrating for the regular Joe like me. Where-as you can go on GTRlife and buy a 1000hp+ GT-R for $70k and there's tons of data available publicly if you wanted to build it yourself. There's a few guys in Hawaii that went that route and they are ultra fast. I'm just hoping my car will be able to keep up with some of the quickest. Otherwise, i'm loving the exclusivity and uniqueness of owning a very quick Porsche while enjoying the cooled seats and Burmester audio.

 

At the end of the day I would not trade my Porsche for a GTR regardless of the power it has

I think the OP's questions was geared more at a Stage one car and which shop was the best option to go to


I do not think his question was whether this platform was the best or most cost effective to break speed records


Speaking as someone who has broken speed records it costs a lot of money and in the end you wind up with a car that is no loner fun to drive on the street. Everything is a compromise and to me the idea when it comes to Porsche the idea is to enjoy some of the low hanging fruit power wise that will not break the bank and which leaves the car with 90% of its stock like feel while going a lot faster than before


After you take the low hanging easy options you start to get into the stuff that costs a lot of money and creates more and more problems and issues


Finally - picking the right tuner based upon which one has the fastest car in the 1/2 mile or the mile is not very smart. Of course this has been the game for years and years in the import field. However, for someone doing a stage 1 or a stage 2 car you may get better customer service from a tuner who is not loading a big rig and preparing 6 figure builds for big events. It does not take a PHd to tuen a stage 1 or 2 car and sell you some parts. I would go with the one who has the best customer service feedback on the forums and the most happy customers and the least disaster stories

 

> in the end you wind up with a car that is no loner fun to drive on the street


For me, this is the reason I have never looked into something like the GT-R. I have had those cars in my past and regretted them. It's more fun going very fast with a car that shouldn't be as fast as it is, than spending giga-bucks to build a car that is the fastest around... for a couple of runs, before it needs a rebuild.


I totally agree with all of this post. I will probably do a One Lap of America run next year and I expect to be in the top 15, with very few mods. Because I'd rather invest my time in being a good driver and really pushing the car I have, than hoping for ridiculous power that is a) dangerous and b) likely to cause issues. And I say top 15 because there is no way I am going to spend $100K++ to drive all the tracks in advance for a competitive advantage, that is against the spirit of the event (yes I know many have done this and it sucks).


PS: if it's a go for me I will be calling out the Turbo 911 squad next spring.

 

This sums it all up. Before I was buying cars to modify and make them faster than a Porsche and wound up with a pile of garbage that went very fast

Now I have a Porsche and having it go significantly faster is good but not interested in being the fastest or breaking any records in the process


Driving a Porsche is about the experience and the feel. That is why even the very slow ones are still to this day very sought after cars. Just because we drive the fastest of the breed does not mean we have to totally destroy the car in the process

Main point for the OP - who ever is the fastest does not mean they are the one who will give you the best customer experience

Who ever wants to spend the most money will always be the fastest

Very few guys like Eddie Bello who were true racers that enjoyed their car as a daily driver - drove to and from the track as a sportsman and who did it for year after year after year

 

Me too

 

At your power level I think if you find a set of R888 for the rear and run then in the low 30 psi range you won't have any trouble with those 1XXX GTRs since you have no prepped surfaces. The initial massive traction advantage of your car will get you out in front at least from a dig. A roll might be tough unless you negotiate 25-30mph max speed first gear. Those GTRs have to manually shift and lose ground so the more they have to shift the better off you are.