I've now got 2,725 miles on the odometer since taking delivery on May 30th and I've enjoyed putting every single one of them on my beautiful 50th anniv edition 911.

Driving home late last evening I gave the Sport Plus setup a go for no other reason than I hadn't ever used it yet. Talk about a ...what the hell was that type of experience?!?! It honestly felt as if someone picked me up and put me into an entirely different vehicle. Performance was insane. Torque was insane. Exhaust was insane. With the windows down and sunroof open my ears actually hurt! The car went from mild-mannered precision machine to absolute altered beast. I'm not sure how much the SPASM goes into the overall setup change... all I know is that IT WAS AWESOME!

Since I now have a better appreciation of the extent of the power and capability this car has I am determined to take lessons and then track the car somewhere this Fall or coming Spring.

Anyway, it's freaking unbelievable what a little button can do, gotta love it and had to share!

 

Totally agree . . . but what took so long for you to try it!? ;-)

 

I think of the three modes like this:

Normal: Lovely GT cruising mode. Benign.
Sport: PSE sound and quicker shifts make things interesting if still usable in traffic.
Sport+: Holy sh*t!

 

300 miles, so far. I greatly look forward to this.

 

I would suggest you try a track day with a local PCA or other quality club that offers instruction. Getting quality instruction early is really helpful, and potentially can save lots of $$. You got a small taste of what the car can do, but there is a lot more to explore that can really only be done on the track. There are lots of threads here and on Rennlist discussing first track days.

Glad you had such a good time, and there is plenty more of that than what you have experienced so far!

 

Confession: I always/only use Sport+.

 

You gotta try this!
I did yesterday for the 1st time after reading this.
W O W !

 

Someone should explain the physics of the Porsche break in procedure. I have broken in at least 4 aircraft engines from new. These procedures are the exact opposite of what Porsche recommends. In my view a piston engine is a piston engine. To properly seat rings maximum sustained power is used for as long as you can fly. I always used two hours minimum. My C2 was run hard from day one. The one limit was never to run high load & low RPM. The biggest threat is heat, the engine will run cooler if it's running at high RPM. Frank C.

 

Break-in is not for seating the rings, which has been accomplished at the factory during the engine run-in. Unlike an airplane, a car has a gearbox and differential(s), whose gears do need to be worn in.

 

I'm not that smart so i followed the recommended break in procedure outlined in the owners manual. <=4k RPMs for the first 2k miles and do not lug the engine. >=2k miles, let her rip after normal operating temperature has been reached.

 

Sport plus has no impact on my 991SC 7 speed manual.....

 

I also only drive in Sport +. I don't notice the night and day difference between modes in terms of steering feel and throttle response. I enjoy the auto-rev matching in the 7MT and having PSE on. I usually turn the chassis to normal unless it's extremely spirited driving.

 

Maybe I am missing something here but as far as I can tell, spot plus simply takes the gears to almost redline before shifting. (Yes it also changes the limiter to hard as opposed to soft limit).
This makes it basically useless outside of a track environment unless you want to be doing 100 before you shift into third.
Sport plus only seems viable on the street to me in conjunction with manual shifts but even then I assume it would subsequently downshift your up shifts.
What I have not tried is sport plus button on while in manual mode, maybe that makes some sort of difference.

Edit: talking PDK here...

 

Sport plus is utterly useless IMO.

 

Auto rev matching on downshifts and longer holds on upshifts, but I believe that's in conjunction with Sport Chrono on newer models.