Kevin knows the smaller turbo's better than most. I can remember in the early days when sharkster had no shop :p, Kevin came to San Jose to prep Alex's car at his home. Alex brought Kevin over to my home where we talked 996tt's and drank some great wines. Kevin really impressed me. At the time he was working with a design called a "zero clearance" turbo. Kevin, UMI and Alex (sharkster)are definitely one of the pioneer's and a who's who.

I believe Alex later became a partner in an established shop before he went out and started sharkwerks.

Todd K , is the man !!!! hes helped the p car community make leaps and bounds.

Todd K is definitely one of the who's who as is Todd Z. Everyone may have their favorite and that is OK.

Now that you brought this up I will tell you a story that happened in the early 2000's. These are the early days and I had started to organize the first 996tt Shootout with Dave Colman a writer from Excellence. At the time I believe my car was ahead of Wilbur's car (Protomotive) and EVO's car in power output. :p

All the cars were bumping up against I believe it was 1.2 bar at the time and people could not figure out how to get past this. I had been using S Car Go and Protomotive for my tune and 1.2 bar was about it. I had been talking with GIAC and thhe told me they could lift the 1.2 limit on the ECU. I was about to send the car and I received a phone call from a GIAC rep telling me that they would be glade to do it, but they were told by Garrett not until after the Shootout. I was told that EVO was their biggest customer and they did not want this mod done to my car before the Shootout. I became so mad I refused to go any farther with the Shootout and turned it over to Sharkster. The Shootout went on without me and no one but a few knew the real reason. I was mad at the time, but soon after I looked back and had to laugh. I believe I had a good one pulled on me by one of the best. :)

Another Who's Who suspension and handling wise is Cary Elsinlohr from ERP. In my opinion, Cary is one of the very best. He is a quiet guy that most don't hear about.

Another behind the scenes guy as far as transmissions go is Brian Copan. Right know I can't remember the name of his company. Brian is one of if the the best Porsche tranny guys in the world.

Boy, the more I write, the more names I remember ......... Paul Guard at Guard Gear. Another pioneer.

didnt know that chad , thanks . i also have to say that you have been a tremendous fountain of knowledge on here also , with your car and all the r&d you have done over the last few years. so thanks for sharing.

Mike,

We have been working with Link (New Zealand) and Neil Harvey @ Performance Developments regarding dual ECU's so as to control such things as GT3 cams, dual injectors, dual TB servo motors, multiple TB's, dual MAF's or Speed Density.

As of present ..... not sure how well it is going to perform. :eek:

That shootout was an amazing and fun experience. If anyone wants to read more about it you can click on the link at the bottom of my sig.

Interesting reading,

I still have that magazine in my bathroomhilarious Seriously read it from time to time... it's amazing how far these cars have come.

If they were to do another shootout (996TT) I wonder what the cars would be and who from this forum would be going.... :D

Buddy,

You had one of the few Stage V's. It's going back a number of years, but wasn't the V's the height of one technology at EVO before the GT technology. Didn't have something to do with EVO's starting to make use of the hybrid turbo's? Up to this time I believe both Protomotive and EVO were using the T3's or T4's. I believe at the time, we were the only one's using hybrids as in TIAL.

I'm not sure if you are asking me, but my car indeed utilized GT3 cam synchs on modifed 996TT cams. According to Todd, my build was the first time he had ever attempted it. He then did the exact same thing on my friend Peter's 3.8 car.

Feel free to call him for specifics.

I believe it was Akkurat Performance Group

hilarious, very cool.

Chad,

Evoms had a Stage IV and had done one Stage V when I dropped my car off in PA. They were definitely on the cutting edge at the time. Right after the shootout Evoms developed the GT packages and used the hybrid turbo which made great power but reduced the lag of the Stage V turbos.

Buddy, do you have a link for the rest of the magazine article with all the cars ?