Sorry for the thread jack....and somewhat unrelated. Boggy that buzzing speaker sounding noise that comes in at @70kph noise is the engine lid release cable touching up against the spot welds in the tunnel leading along the LHS to the engine compartment. P knows the fix for that.....warranty. Came into mine just the other day and P fixed when i had my clutch fitted up..

Sorry Doug. I only just saw this. I must have been out of town back then when you posted. Anyway the gt3 arms are good to get more than the paltry 1.1/1.0 neg max without. Mine arent set all to aggressively at the moment....@ 1.6 neg front 1.5 rear. Its better to get the rims out at the bottom than by using plates imo as then you need spacers to bring the top of the wheel back into position in the gaurds. The guys at my P dealer (who fitted em) unfortunately dont have great expertise with track alignments so I intend getting a new string line alignment early next year by the guys who fitted my coilovers to my last S (these guys are really good) so desirably i will be running @ 2.1 front and 1.9 rear again but i'll leave it up to them. My S had 2.1 and 1.9 on the rear and my street tires wore really well so if i can reproduce the same result on the turbo that particular alignment set up proved a great compromise for both Street/track. The R tires could have done with a bit more neg but they were way better than before. Youve got some good guys over your way by look of it so they should know how to set it all up properly.

Aha! Saw canns earlier post with prices now of @ 3250 to 4k upward.

1) Got mine set from the states (Sharkwerks) actually. I guess my installers must have tossed what little instruction i saw out after the install.

2) Well....hopefully there is no hard feelings. I dont think there is. And Bilstein Aus really arent all too helpfull unless you have been raped by them....hence me buying mine from the states to begin with.

Yes well its a pity we dont have access to guys like you out here with your level of experience working on these pasm systems.. And i too love the PASM feature.

Being able to work with the springs on a coilover set up so to get an acceptable street ride thats not so jiggy as what i had on my S wouild be truly great and worthy of entertaining. The way my S was it was a love one day hate it the next kind of relationship...depending on your mood. road etc. Not very comfy for passenger either or a long trip as such. Good for the track though....but again pending surface condition being smooth in the corners. Lumps and bumps would throw it off a bit..
Btw nice vid .

 

Although I have no direct experience with the TPC's suspension, I think for anyone around their area who is interested in a tighter Turbo: a test drive of the TPC Turbo is an absolute must and a no brainer. This car has received a tremendous review.

I am very impressed with what TPC has done and I wish more tuners would do the same: a serious and custom-made tuning of the Turbo's suspension. While the key to the TPC setup is the Bilstein Damptronic with stiffer front spring and pillow ball mount, what's equally important is that it's an integrated system and the parts are designed together. Sway bar, revised PASM, etc.

I love TPC's work even though Casey wouldn't tell me what that front spring rate is. Just kidding Casey -- wishing TPC well.

 

"And the parts are designed together"...why I firmly believe if you pick a tuner you should stay with that tuner.....

 

Serp, agreed. In addition, the more I read these forums, the more I think the key to a good suspension tune is the installer. No inexperienced tech should be allowed to come close to something this critical.

I do not have formal statistics but I have seen enough installation-related problems to feel that the most important consideration for suspension work should be a good and seasoned veteran for your tech. (Again, just general discussion and not referring to Larry's intaller on this thread.)

 

The two posts above say it all. The parts put together as one complete package and finding the right plac to install it.

I Had "original" bilstein's with another companies sways. It was ok and I can't say I had problems. however, reading all the threads here I decided I wanted one package and i wanted the developer of that package to insatall, align, and test drive it. That's why I made the 4 hour drive to TPC and gave them the car.

Probably the biggest issue is finding someone who is actually qualified to do the work. Just going to any shop named "X motorwerks", "European something or other", etc. doesn't mean anything.

And I think that problem is only going to get worse. The more turbo's that hit the used car market and prices continue to come down, there will be shops popping up all over the place that claim to be porsche "experts".

As the other Chris (TT surgeon) likes to say (I paraphrase) "...not some LA shop who is working on a TT one minute and putting on 25" wheels on a range rover"

 

True enough, I wish Farnbacher-Loles was still around, those guys knew their stuff. One of the suspension guys from the 87 car had been doing my work, he was great. However, a little birdie told me, a major porsche racing shop (grand am/alms) may be locating a east coast facility here shortly, be patient Chris.

 

Absolutely the prime reason why I stopped modding all together. Finding a knowledgeable installer in my area (in the past at least) was an absolute costly
nightmare. Most are hacks.

I found myself spending more time going back and searching for 2nd and third tries elsewhere spending $hitloads of ca$h for re-adjustments than driving.
But I digress..

And I think things are quite different in this scenario mainly because of the BREED of this particular automobile and the class of its drivers.

These are high caliber tuners of an up-scaled league tuning super cars..not tuning Hondas.

 

Yes Casey, I know. I wish you guys were closer. I need somebody in the tristate area that I can drop my car off in the am, pick it up after work kinda deal. Otherwise I would be a regular at your shop. Why don't you guys branch out to say LI?

 

They do provide transportation to the airport Actually it wasn't that bad. The first time I went I left here around 4:00 got there at 8:00 and I was home by 12:00.

 

Couldn't agree more..

 

Looks like no posts for a while on this subject. Have a loud click coming from the top of my strut on a 2010 997.2 tt. Car had 4000 on the clock when I bought it 6 months ago, now at 10000. Everyone told me the click when going from stop to stop was my springs reseating. Dealer says it's not springs and not normal. Trying to track it down now. I think it's bearings, can they be bad with low mile cars? Any thoughts?