Hey all

Did you guys check out this article in the EVO Mag about the GT2 vs 9ff? Was reading this and thought it was a great write up between the 2 cars. A stock GT2 (475HP i believe) vs a 9ff (700HP+) 996. And it looks like according to the article 9ff is leading the way as being the best Porsche tuner? I believe it also said that 9ff made a top speed of around 230mph+? That's just insane! What are your thoughts on it? Did you guys get to read the article if not check it out!

 

yeah i have that evo mag at my home bought it a couple of days ago...

heheh the 9ff car had better welds on their pipings lol (mustve fired the old welder lol)

 

yes the 9ff car recently hit over 230mph at Nardo, at Continental's tuner-shootout to test their tires. i apprecaite that they accomplished such a feat, but i doubt many would say that 9ff is the leading Porsche tuner company...

 

You know where Jan Fatthauer (9ff) used to work right?

for Alois Ruf

 

interesting...

why has there been so much bad publicity about 9ff i've been heraing about then? i always associated 9ff with bad service cause i heard that they jacked some guys huge amount of money and it was in the 10's of thousands not a pretty story. but we all know RUF is quality...maybe 9ff's products actually work well (230+mph is quite good ) but bad service? or maybe i'm jumping to conclusions

 

a letter Jan wrote me explains his side f the story:

Dear Mr. Mansur,
>
> I know this bad talking about us. As we started on the US market a man
> named Frederic Ballot visited us in germany. He told us he knows the
> US market and
> wanted to help us in america. He wants to do the distribution for us.
> Two
> month he ordered a lot things and payed with prepaiment. After this good
> time he started with not paying our deliveries. Now we are waiting for
> 60.000 $ from him. But this is not all. He offered a lot of 9ff things
> to
> customers. These customers did 50% prepayment and they got nothing from
> him.
> Now they contact us and we have to give them our parts for free. But
> again
> this is not all. One of these customers was John Olson. He makes a
> contract
> with Frederic Ballot about an 9ff engine and some other parts. But
> Frederic
> was lying to Mr. Olson. Mr. Olson must wait over 8 weeks for the parts
> and
> the installation. He got angree and started this bad talking about 9ff.
> But
> it was only a problem between Mr. Olson and Mr. Frederic Ballot. Now my
> company bought all 9ff parts back from John Olson wich had Frederic
> Ballot
> sold to him. We got nothing fro the parts from him !! After all this
> problems everything is o.k. with Mr. Olson and also with the EXCELLENCE
> magazine. I have a friend there. His name is Stan Michelman. He knows
> everything about the story and helps us as he can.
> All this trouble was the most bad start for 9ff in america wich is
> possible.
> Now we have some very active dealers in the US and we start again to
> make
> our name 9ff a good name. All this bad talking will stop for sure from
> itselfe in the next time.
>
> If you want you can contact Mr. John Olson or Mr. Stan Michelmann.
>
> Best regards,
>
> JAN
> 9ff

 

ahhhh i see i see...so its kind of like a RDSport / Racing Dynamics dealing b/t Frederico and Electrodyne for the BMW community. oh well please dismiss my previous comments, i should not have jumped to conclusions before knowing what was going on. my bad. please excuse my hijack