Hey best of luck with the install and dyno session.

Look forward to seeing your numbers, sir.

Cheers.

 

Do you have any 60-130 or 100-200km times on a stock Z and your modded Z?

 

The cars are completely different animals. It is hard to do a comparisson, but if you must, the Z06 is definitely a FASTER car in stock form.

The Z06 with an intake and a tune ($ 750) and gutted cats will trap 129-131mph...a 997tt will need a lot of goodies to be able to get close to that speed.

The main difference is weight and gearing. The Z06 has both of those. Now, the newer TTs with the PDK are in a different league. They are considerably quicker (in stock form) than the older 997.1s...that is a fact.

I have a 997TT EVT 775...it is fast and it has tons of power mods as well as suspension mods so it is not a fair comparison to a Z06. I love the TT...but when I had the Z06, I was also quite fond of it. It was always the underdog.

I also had a gen IV viper and it made 600rwhp...the Z06 with 110 less rwhp was faster. Gearing and weight is huge.

 

where did you read this? In my conversations with them, their 775 kit would trap in the 130-131mph with race gas...

I love my car...heck, I have owned it for 3 years and that is a record for me. I bought my car with 95% of the modifications done. I simply had to do some tweaking and adjusting. I know if I would have bought it stock there would be no way in hell I would spend $ 80,000 to get it to where it is today. I am glad someone did that for me as I would have not.

With all honesty though, the car is so well balanced that I would struggle finding something in the $ 80k - 150k that would make me as happy as this car...and I have been looking.

 

I hope it does better than 130 - considering what is posted on their website.

From their website:

 

Also quoted by Alex:

http://www.sharkwerks.com/products.php?pid=174

 

Interesting...

 

Is that interesting good...or interesting bad?

If the car is truly making 775hp, I'd expect the trap speed to be much higher than 130.

 

I agree, considering Chris from USP got his tune only car to trap 127 on 100 octane.

 

Hey OP, if you're a "speed & HP freak" - I have a car for you! Less expensive than a Z06 or 997 TT.

 

I could not agree with you more.

 

You are correct. In my experience- on a RWD car (like the Z) with a plethora of tuners- for some reason the dyno results were very consistent and could be trusted. People could gauge their ET's/trap speeds off their dyno numbers with accuracy. Sure there were dynos that were known to read higher than others...but as a community we all knew which tuners tended to be dyno queens.

In the Porsche world it appears the opposite is true. Get your times and then estimate your HP. I must say I've never seen such variance in dyno results/estimates (w/graphs or word of mouth) as shown and discussed here. I'm sure it has to do with the fact that there are far less AWD dynos than 2wd dynos.

I've got an appointment to go drive a local one for sale this week. I think a test drive will help me answer a lot of questions I have.

That said -

Again - I appreciate the excellent conversation here. I'll be honest- I'm not familiar with Porsches at all. Just the 997tt intrigues me (as it should any car enthusiast) due to the AWD, the handling, the look and of course the twin turbos. Beautiful car- just may not be for me. We will see.

Cheers.

 

That's the way to do it. Once you see it and drive it you will know.

I love mine, and can't wait to get it on a road course (this weekend!)

 

Saw a bunch of em at the Concours D'elegance last weekend.

Also saw a 959, a CGT and a bunch of GT2's and GT3's as well as some vintage Porsche race cars.

Now just wanna drive one!

 

I think it's important to have both dynos and datalogs from real world high velocity runs to fine tune your car. Most reputable tuners should be able to correlate their dyno with trap times/60-130s. When they don't...I worry.