New 996 Carrera Turbo Kit Released by Vivid Racing
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no, not really shared components: both trannies are made by ZF out of Germany, which makes as well Benz's, Beemers, and other brands trannies.
the carrera and the turbo do not share the same trannie. as a matter of fact, they have not even the same layout. the 4S and the turbo do share the trannie. which, is stronger than the regular carreras'.
aftermarket market focuses on turbos as it does makes sense. turbo tips are great cars, and the tip takes it and can be upgraded.
but, nobody has invested the time to work and promote upgraded "regular" tips, as such cars are not purchased by "speed guys".
let's say you blow your regular tip with turbos or anything else: either you purchase a rebuild one from vertex, or porsche, or nothing else. nobody would go in and change broken clutches or other pieces. that is the deterrent.
the carrera and the turbo do not share the same trannie. as a matter of fact, they have not even the same layout. the 4S and the turbo do share the trannie. which, is stronger than the regular carreras'.
aftermarket market focuses on turbos as it does makes sense. turbo tips are great cars, and the tip takes it and can be upgraded.
but, nobody has invested the time to work and promote upgraded "regular" tips, as such cars are not purchased by "speed guys".
let's say you blow your regular tip with turbos or anything else: either you purchase a rebuild one from vertex, or porsche, or nothing else. nobody would go in and change broken clutches or other pieces. that is the deterrent.
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With the wastegate dump pipe on the cat pipes, once that wastegate opens up, you are dumping straight out and not going through the mufflers. This is how externally gated turbos work. So in essence, its already there 
Under boost, you cant. For normal driving, we could design a different muffler which would would have a valvetronic cut out to bypass the muffler/resonator and go right to the tip. This would make it VERY quiet on the street.
All of this is possible, and can be done here as we have the valvetronic parts. It all comes down to money
Here is the Valvetronic exhaust we built on my 997 Turbo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hnHDKMk4zk
All of this is possible, and can be done here as we have the valvetronic parts. It all comes down to money
Here is the Valvetronic exhaust we built on my 997 Turbo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hnHDKMk4zk
