Hey there. Recently acquired a 2012 v6 970 Porsche Panamera w/ 9k miles after being a long time Corvette owner. Recent addition to the family, budget constraints due to the little one landed me in this V6 rather than my Z06.

I am not super impressed with the power or the sound on the new ride, but not much I could do under $65k & still be semi sporty and have a backseat that fits the baby's seat. So now I am on a quest to make it sound a little better and add a few horses to it.

I am looking at purchasing this kit. http://www.fabspeed.com/970-v6-performance-package/ but have some real doubts on the intake. I keep reading a lot of negative/neutral reviews on the forums about cylindrical intakes and many just suggest upgrading to BMC flat filters instead for similar if not better results.

Can anyone here offer some advice/tips and tricks or opinions on this kit. The $795 price tag seems steep for not providing much over the BMC filter using the stock box.

Thanks so much for your expertise. Any other suggestions are appreciated.

 

I wont go into what else you could have chosen since you already made your decision but in my opinion there is not much you can do that is going to add any power that you are really going to feel unless someone makes a supercharger kit that will work with the car. You can make it sound better but I doubt you will you notice any difference other than to your ears. I have owned my fair share of Corvettes (the last being a modified 07 Lemans blue Z06) and you now have a car that weighs half a ton more with less power and torque and if I were you I'd save my money and hope you can get used to the new car. Good luck.

 

That kit's not going to do anything for your power. On turbocharged cars, you can sometimes get a significant power boost by improving exhaust flow, which in turns spins the turbos faster and increases your intake air pressure. With a naturally aspirated car, all you're doing is reducing backpressure, which isn't really a serious problem.

Even so, I say "sometimes" because the car is rarely engineered for the higher boost pressures. Reliability problems follow. You're definitely hurting the car's resale value significantly if you perform much in the way of power mods on it. Which is fine if you plan on keeping the car till it dies, but I don't think that's your case.

I've seen this topic before with base Panameras, and the real answer is that the way to add more power is to sell the car and buy a higher trim like an S or Turbo. It's much cheaper and more reliable than trying to mod a base car.

There are PTT's available under $65k. They just have more miles. The ones I see on Autotrader priced in that range have 45-50k miles on them, which isn't new, but hardly ready for the scrapheap either.