Good advice! Thanks!

Jason

 

Jason,
Got your message, will call you back tomorrow. Or try my call again anytime so we can schedule the trip and get started.
CATTMAN

 

Sounds good! FYI, 1st weekend in June is probably best for me but your the man of the hour and will do what it takes to get your help on this.

Just received the latest instruction sheet from Sean... looks good! Although my hoses look different and I do not think I have the hose interconnect pieces.

Jason

 

Gents,

I have a lot of projects going on right now. The latest of which has my car sitting at GMG for the next couple of weeks getting a suspension overhaul. So, I am going to have to put my FI aspirations on hold for a while. In fact, if anyone is interested in a lightly used VFE kit let me know.

Jason

 

Beautiful car! What rims are those?

 

Nice rims ! love the BBS!!!

 

Great looking car Jason. You need to get a drive in a FI car and once you do, you'll be hooked! I'm loving my TPC turbo and suspension upgrades. The car's personality is dramatically different - and if you track your car it would be amazing. If you can have a pro like Cattman offer to help and then delay/turn it down, it's like ripping up a winning lottery ticket! You've got the supercharger - install it!
Bob

 

I hear you, I really do. My suspension build has gone way over budget mostly because I want to make sure it is done right with the right products. To me, getting the suspension sorted correctly is more important at this juncture. I need the money I could get for the SC to help offset some costs. Like most thinks in tuning, its coming down to how much money I have to play with.

Jason

 

Come on Jason. You're not going to get all practical on us now are you?

Seriously, given the capabilities of these cars, I agree with your plan to deal with the suspension and handling mods first, especially given your plan to track the car. After you extract everything the car and you are capable of, then perhaps FI would be the next step. GLWS.

 

Well, selling the SC probably wont be easy unless the right buyer comes along. If it does not get sold then its a future possibility.

Jason

 

If the kit is complete, and priced right, it will sell, and sell fast. Did GMG talk to you about Jared's car?
CATTMAN

 

I saw Jared's car at C&C when he came out but I never spoke to him or directly to Fabryce about his car. I did talk to Fabryce about the VFE kit about a year ago when I first started thinking about FI.

Jason

 

Well lets close this out.

My FI plans are on hold for now and I am not sure what form they will take in the future. TPC and VFE are both tempting prospects and I will continue to learn as much as I can about FI on our 997's. I look forward to the time when I can proceed with something like this in the future.

I am sending the kit to a very good home. Eddie is a fellow 6speeder and an avid Porsche Tuner evidenced by his 996 3.8L conversion which will soon be FI'd. Needless to say, he is going to have his hands full getting this kit installed and I am sure he is going to have fun doing it.

Here are pics of the final pack-up. I tried to keep everything labelled after spending so much time doing an inventory. Along with my kit he is also getting a Suncoast 3rd radiator kit and Justatoy's custom coolant line brackets (assuming they fit).









I will be sure to post back here if and when my FI aspirations continue!

Jason

 

what is the verdict? which is better super charger or turbo?

both add tons of hp so by better i mean reliability etc...

 

I do not think you are going to get a solid answer on this. There are far more SC'd 996's and 997's than there are Turbo'd. You can talk to several members on this forum that have been daily driving their SC'd Porsche's for years and some for over 70K miles. The TPC Turbo kit has not been around long enough for members to stay the same thing, even if you look at the Boxster or Cayman forum.

Now a Turbo kit by design is a simpler solution. Many will say that based on this alone, a Turbo kit is going to be more reliable or better. Yet, if you look at OE manufacturers you will find so many more SC'd cars from the factory (Ford, Merc, Audi, Jag to name a few) than Turbo's which is really only becoming popular now among some manufacturers like BMW and Ford (Taurus SHO). Some have been turbocharging for decades (Porsche, Mitsubishi, Nissan) with varying degrees of success and reliability.

I think you need to consider the quality and design of the FI kit as well. For example, Turbo's can be brutal on engines with the fashion in which they deliver power. A poorly designed kit might be able to deliver lots of added ponies but it will do it all at once and in a hurry. This puts a lot of sudden stress on an engine that was never built to handle it. But a well built and thought out kit, such as TPC's, wont suffer from that. Many will say the linear fashion an SC delivers power is "Safer" and might be an answer as to why so many OE manufacturers choose supercharging over turbocharging.

Personally I think both the TPC single turbo kit and VFE SC kit are awesome FI solutions for the 997. Both offer fairly linear power delivery. I do not think you could go wrong with either.

Jason