My mods are done. No more.
#1
My mods are done. No more.
I beleive I have finished my build. No more changes needed, and no more will be made. Car wil stay in street version, no rollbars, nothing.
If I will decide to get into club racing I will buy a different car, most likely a spec boxster and will begin new build from a scratch.
Description:
'06 997.1 C2 CPO - Arctic silver / Black leather, Bi-Xenon, Heated seats, Colored crests, Dimmed mirrors, 18" Carrera Classic wheels
Engine/Drivetrain Modifications:
K&N oiled air filter, IPD Plenum, Fabspeed X-Pipe cats, Softronic ECU flash, 996 X51 oil pan
Suspension Modifications:
996 GT3 front/rear LCAs, GT3 front/rear sway bars with Tarett droplinks, Tarett rear toe arms, JRZ RS COs, 600#/700# Eibach springs with 130# tenders, all solid LCA bushings, upper GT3 style ERP monoball strut mounts front/rear, ERP rear arms/dogbones, ERP front fork thrust arms.
Wheels/Tires Modifications:
18" Carrera Classics with Hoosier A6 245/295
18" CCW C14 9"/12" with Kumho V700 265/335
Interior/Exterior Modifications:
Porsche Navigation, Valentine One radar hardwired, Mobridge Ipod/Bluetooth, Clear bra, Clear side signals, Hoen white bulbs, Mods 4 Cars RemoteKey, Robson Design MF steering wheel, AIM Smartycam with ODB2 interface, driver side rennline fire ext.
Future Modifications:
NONE!!!
Mods are DONE. Car is as great now as 'trackable' street 997 platform can be.
If I will decide to get into club racing I will buy a different car, most likely a spec boxster and will begin new build from a scratch.
Description:
'06 997.1 C2 CPO - Arctic silver / Black leather, Bi-Xenon, Heated seats, Colored crests, Dimmed mirrors, 18" Carrera Classic wheels
Engine/Drivetrain Modifications:
K&N oiled air filter, IPD Plenum, Fabspeed X-Pipe cats, Softronic ECU flash, 996 X51 oil pan
Suspension Modifications:
996 GT3 front/rear LCAs, GT3 front/rear sway bars with Tarett droplinks, Tarett rear toe arms, JRZ RS COs, 600#/700# Eibach springs with 130# tenders, all solid LCA bushings, upper GT3 style ERP monoball strut mounts front/rear, ERP rear arms/dogbones, ERP front fork thrust arms.
Wheels/Tires Modifications:
18" Carrera Classics with Hoosier A6 245/295
18" CCW C14 9"/12" with Kumho V700 265/335
Interior/Exterior Modifications:
Porsche Navigation, Valentine One radar hardwired, Mobridge Ipod/Bluetooth, Clear bra, Clear side signals, Hoen white bulbs, Mods 4 Cars RemoteKey, Robson Design MF steering wheel, AIM Smartycam with ODB2 interface, driver side rennline fire ext.
Future Modifications:
NONE!!!
Mods are DONE. Car is as great now as 'trackable' street 997 platform can be.
#5
on a street - nothing short of amazing. shocks setup is now 5 for rebound, 3 for compression all around.
car absorbs bumps way better than with stock C2 shocks and at same time it is way firmer and does not sway or rock as a boat back and forth anymore. but it does not translate each bump into 'true racing' sledgehammer hit from below. so it is truly softer and firmer at same time.
just feels different altogether. with stock my rear end had tendency to jump a bit on bad bumps - this one does not. i accelerated and eyesight line kept static while suspension worked on bumps and car remained in total control - pretty great feeling.
what is very good about JRZs is that they have very wide adjustability range. at click 9 for compression they are almost intolerable and car slides. click 3 is very comfy and probably best for street/auto-x. it will take time to get it correct but generic settings now are truly great.
sway bars set to second from softest front and midhole rear. feels good on a street, will not know how much oversteer it is until auto-x and DE, but it feels like there is no understeer at all, camber is -3 degrees front, -2.5 degrees rear.
i did drive in some very firm race cars - it is not like that. those cars have 1200lbs+ springs and different valving. my mechanic insisted that they always build 996/997 cars with 100lbs springs split and 600#/700# springs are the best (most folks insist on 600/800 springs) and all I can say - current setup i got is imho as good as it can be. my car is 3370lbs with me.
Last edited by utkinpol; 07-26-2010 at 12:41 PM.
#6
it`s easy - nothing else left to mod, i already changed everything.
seats will stay, rollcage will not be installed, interior stripping will not be done. so, i am done.
seats will stay, rollcage will not be installed, interior stripping will not be done. so, i am done.
#7
Safety is Job 1 :)
I think you will need to re-visit safety. Probably down the road after more DEs if you decide you like them. The best part is that the stuff can be moved to a SP-Box, etc. You will want harnesses, and - given this thread - probably a harness bar (vs a roll bar). Harnesses can be moved to another car or sold, and the harness bar can be sold. You should really get a HANS device if you get serious. Seats would be the next step, and some of the regions (PCA NER?) are funny about running harnesses with stock seats, and probably would want you to go with belt/suspenders and use the stock belts with the harnesses, while you use stock seats, but that's another story.
Roll bar can bolt in and out easily enough, but I imagine you'd wait on that for a more dedicated car. Then you'll want window nets, seat-back brace etc, and that all can wait, too. The stuff in the prior paragraph is what you'll probably want next season if you get bit by the DE bug. Again, given that it is easily reversible, and not that expensive, plus safety related, you should not hold off once you're ready.
Good luck with it -
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#10
I remember a few members that have said the exact same thing. They have all visited the dark side again. I will say however that I have been mod free for well over a year!
Car sounds like it is well set up, now just drive it and enjoy it!
Car sounds like it is well set up, now just drive it and enjoy it!
#11
only mod i may do would be to get another CCW wheels set if i will start wearing out rubber too fast. but it is not a mod, more like a materials supply. tires, clutch, brake pads, rotors...
I still have potential to spend $1700 more - rear fork arms are still stock and all LCA ends are stock gt3 rubber ones - not billet monoball steel - but I do not think it is overly critical to replace them so most likely those last rubber pieces i have left in my suspension will stay. I really like how car goes now. tons of grip, very precise, rear end is glued to the road now, i do not need to do anything else.
#12
will certainly do.
only mod i may do would be to get another CCW wheels set if i will start wearing out rubber too fast. but it is not a mod, more like a materials supply. tires, clutch, brake pads, rotors...
I still have potential to spend $1700 more - rear fork arms are still stock and all LCA ends are stock gt3 rubber ones - not billet monoball steel - but I do not think it is overly critical to replace them so most likely those last rubber pieces i have left in my suspension will stay. I really like how car goes now. tons of grip, very precise, rear end is glued to the road now, i do not need to do anything else.
only mod i may do would be to get another CCW wheels set if i will start wearing out rubber too fast. but it is not a mod, more like a materials supply. tires, clutch, brake pads, rotors...
I still have potential to spend $1700 more - rear fork arms are still stock and all LCA ends are stock gt3 rubber ones - not billet monoball steel - but I do not think it is overly critical to replace them so most likely those last rubber pieces i have left in my suspension will stay. I really like how car goes now. tons of grip, very precise, rear end is glued to the road now, i do not need to do anything else.
#13
I am over modding now, if next one will come to life it will be build from a donor car and straight into gt3s class most likely - most likely a 3.4L boxster with full cage or 911 replica with 3.6l air cooled engine. not sure. i have no space and no possibility to support race prepped car as of now, so, it can wait for 2-3 years until real estate will come back to its senses and we will move up to bigger house from current one.
i really dislike an idea to park trailer with car someplace else and pay monthly for storage, it is plain stupid. plus to work on a real race prepped car i will need a lift and in current garage I cannot install it. to many 'ifs'.
i really dislike an idea to park trailer with car someplace else and pay monthly for storage, it is plain stupid. plus to work on a real race prepped car i will need a lift and in current garage I cannot install it. to many 'ifs'.
Last edited by utkinpol; 07-27-2010 at 07:37 AM.
#14
Future Modifications:
NONE!!!
Mods are DONE. Car is as great now as 'trackable' street 997 platform can be.
Hopefully you will be able to live up to your pledge. I have seen a number of owners of various sport car makes go through the mod phase and fully enjoy the experience. However, once they are finished, the fun of working on the car is gone, and all they have now is a car to drive. No more frustrations to fix, no more waiting anxiously for the UPS truck to show up, no more satisfaction of installing a mod and actually have it improve the performance/look of the car. Hence, the thrill is gone, and they end up selling the car (usually at a huge loss) and buying something else to satisfy their addiction to modding cars.
Like an alcoholic, you are one mod from falling off the wagon. Maybe there's a 12-step program out there for "Mods Anonymous".
#15
Difference here is that it will take me 2-4 years to learn to drive what I have built here properly and hopefully if I will have actual time to go to DEs and auto-x then car will stay. otherwise, it will most likely go.
to be honest i have been drooling over lotus for some time now, so... nevertheless i took the pledge and no more is no more for this one. mods costs now are little bit above of 50% of what I have paid for car itself and it is where it has to stop nevertheless of what was intended originally.