Last November I was trying to ship my turbo to Protomotive before I went to Afghanistan, most of the quotes were insane and the ones that weren't proved to be undependable, so a buddy and I pulled a hair brained stunt and drove an all nighter in both turbo (with a slight oil leak on the driver side turbo) and my SUV from Colorado to Protomotive in Arkansas. Todd and company were awesome hosts despite our being slap happy tired, showing us their shop and some of the other killer projects. In a building full of tuned Porsches of varying mod levels, Cyns 70's muscle car was still very impressive as well as *her* engine build shop!

A little background: My turbo has an extensive history, I bought a couple years old as a converted RUF550 (found to be partially parted after I bought it) then an IA Stage 4 with horrible tuning and a defective IC that contributed to some turbo failures, then a UMW 2C which was pretty cool, but I wanted something more... allot more.

So here we are... it started out as a simple build with new turbos, intake, IC's, exhaust, con rods and an e85 fuel system but expanded to 997GT2 crank/lower compression pistons (9.0:1 compared to 9.4:1), 997GT2 intake, 997GT3 Oil pump, new lifters, timing chain, welded coolant adapters, valves, Proto intake, 5" core IC's, exhaust, custom Alpha30 based turbos and some other go faster goodies....I cant wait for the dyno runs.

Here are the initial build pics....more to follow.

Gently tapping the sleeves in... I think that orange bat has a special Porsche part number :-)


More sleeves being installed...


Raceware studs, 997GT2 crank with Carillo roads....


Worked heads with new valves and triple high rate springs... check out the sandals, Jesus is building my hot rod.

 

Very nice! Looks like a really well thought out build. Looking forward to seeing results/hearing your impressions after it's done.

 

Nice! Good luck with everything.

 

Thanks to your advice, you steered me in the right direction, just got carried away with the invoice list ;-) The turbos were purpose built for CO altitude (7000'+) which should be interesting.

I'm leaving the sandbox soon, you still in VA?

 

Awesome build! Come home safe and enjoy it.

 

It's gona turn out really good,nice build you're getting from Tod K.,let's us know when finnished.

 

Very cool build. What's the difference in the 997GT2 crank vs. the 996tt/997tt crank?

 

Very nice ...Good Luck & be patient!!

 

Awesome, best of luck with the build!

 

Looks like an awesome build. I wish I had the cash and patience to do something like this. Since you are building the motor why not go for some GTX35 turbos, they are the new hottness

 

It's easier when you are away for extended periods, if I had to walk through my garage everyday I would get probably get impatient. As far as turbos, I live at 7000', most turbos run out of steam because of the thin air, I also wanted usable power vs peak power so I went with Todd's recommendation of modified Alpha30's.

 

Nice to see this level for you. I remember your issues. Congrats, your gonna love it!

 

Oh damn, cant wait! Frequent updates please!

 

NICE! Looking forward to hearing about results! Obviously you are in great hands.....

 

I've read quite a few stories this summer of coolant hose failures, but also the adapters that are epoxied in, these failures can spray coolant over onto the rear tires, something I'd like to avoid at 100mph+.

I bought a set of weld in coolant adapters (9 pieces?) from AWD motorsports, they were packed and shipped as fast as I could pay for them, the timing of this was perfect as another couple days and Todd and Cyn would have to disassemble part of the motor to weld these in. I also replaced the 10+ year old factory coolant hoses.

Here are the epoxied factory pieces....


Here are the some of the welded pieces...