Found a nice straight around lunch time with not much wind and took her to 354kph (220 mph).

With the 14 kph dash correction to GPS (high speed verified at Vmax Carbon last Sat), that was a 340 kph (211 mph) run.

Don't think she has much left beyond that, but not bad a for a K16 car.

Ken and his Nine Excellence guys are magicians.

Cheers,
HH

Ken from Nine Excellence talked me into his magical K1639's when I came to him for big and serious power. My baby was already pretty quick with its Techart tune. But with the Nine Excellence full K1639 pack including 4.5 race IC's, she is now a monster and leaves more or less everything behind through the gears and on the top as well.

Check the video clip Ken posted a few weeks ago, where I did 338 kph (dash) in the rain at Brunters. She pulls very persistently through 200 mph. Last Sat I took her to Vmax Carbon and only got beaten fractionally by Leon's brutal RUF CTR3 and I matched Toby's amazing GT2 3.9RS. Everybody else were well down on my K1639 baby.

Ken and his team have managed to create the perfect turbo config for daily and for flat out use. Its though not a little bolt on simple job, they have practically rebuild most of the original car. But worth every penny and more (;-))

Cheers,
HH

We'll keep you all posted on progress... She is currently being run in and about to be ready for a couple of runs with the Vbox recording all her real goodies on Brunters.

Dyno at this power level doesn't really make much sense. Actual like for like performance speaks a pretty clear and simple language leaving no room for imaginary and somewhat made up numbers. Not saying thats customary in the UK, I really wouldn't know, but I know for a fact that imaginary Dyno performance is pretty common in the Dutch 911 Turbo tuning community.

With better conditions on Brunters, the CTR is still too big for her to challenge seriously and I have the 3.9 GT2 suspected for playing her a little as well. Those two cars are in my mind amazing and the milestones 911's should aim at.

Back home here in Holland, she is quickly building up a reputation and are already struggling finding playmates... I have the odd little fun when challenged by M5's, RS6's, Gallardo's, 430's, 458's etc., but its pretty quickly over when we hit the throttle at 80/90 mph (;-))

Did though have a big laugh a few days after she came back home mid April. A local friend of mine have a standard 997T PDK, which she could just about get away from before Nine Excellence gave her the big makeover. So while she was away the last months, I repeatedly told my buddy that we just did brake and susp mods, so I could use her on the track. Once she was back home and ready to duel, I trashed him so badly that he thought his car was broken and he got really pissed off. That was so much worth the wait, I am still cracking myself when thinking of his reaction, LOL

Cheers,
HH

Got vbox stuff for the 300kph and so on. Waiting for better weather to set some performance numbers.

How is life in SG?

Yep me too, I'm talking to Ken about it at the moment but he's a busy boy. I've a sneaking suspicion this kit is going to keep 9E very busy over the coming months!

Henrik's car is fking fast

It wears full 996GT2 bodywork so is only slightly less draggy than mine, I calculated at 197mph mine needs 22hp more to be running at that speed (so less left over for acceleration) - so pretty closely matched in the aero dept.

From my data logging, from observing the boost I was being allowed (by my Motronic program) and comparing it to my DIN engine dyno numbers I reckon Henrik's was running at about 680PS which is absolutely incredible from a K16 based turbo....

I have still to come to terms with this fixed boost method of tuning since the serious German tuners all use factory boost control which will reduce boost for example when the turbos heat up - the VTG engine's have lots of temperature sensors on the VTGs and will richen mixture and pull boost when this gets high like it does over 250kph on full bore.

Who knows how hot the K16 is getting but proof of the pudding is that Henrik beat my top speed and nothing's melted yet !

In fact, Craig told me they had "a silver Porsche at 199mph" but I only data logged 197mph from all my runs so I reckon it was Henrik doing the 199

It is great to see Ken at 9E pushing the envelope and bringing these US tuning philosophies into reality over here and with his (and his savvy customers') being totally transparent....

I'm so impressed that I will be testing some of his shiny stuff

Ken,

What do you think the impact of the extreme tune will have on the life expectancy of the K16 Turbo's and the engine?

Lang.... don't do it... Mind you for the money you've get for black betty you could get a 996 and send it to Ken.

Did you get the email I just sent you?

Thanks for the kind words Jon. Hope you are progressing well with your car.

Currently this package is running on stock internals. I think it is worth pointing out that the k1639 cars that are already running, run boost controllers. For normal usage 1.25 bar is perfect, extremely fast and fun. We run the turbos at 1.51 bar (the gauge will show 1.6) for maximum attack mode like vmax etc, and the reason I am precise with the boost amount is that this is near the limit, although within safe boundaries, of the fuel system. It seems that most customers run them always in maximum attack mode

I suppose we can call it "bolt on" if we take that to be non built motor. The last delivered version was 110 hours of work, is an engine out etc. There were hours within that for brake and suspension upgrades.

I don't know how many 320kph runs have been done in the car in the last month, but I suspect it has been over 50 at least including many runs in excess of 340kph together with this run of 354kph yesterday.

I don't beleive another customer would push the car to this extreme. So it is an interesting and useful exercise with Henrik - he accepts that when you push the boundaries, you may find a limit. We already have a project planned this year with Henrik for more power, using different package.

We have imo reached the limit with the turbo k1639 in the sense that running further serves no real purpose -the gains you get would be minimal for the extra expense. We continually refine the package based on datalogging and again will be making a few changes in the coming weeks to see if they are beneficial.

Let's catch up when I get a spare minute, something there does not seem to be many of at the moment.

Miras, you make a really good point - we never tune a car unless it is in great shape first. I would rather a customer spends ?k first on doing that, than spending ?k on tuning. Simply no point.

I will disagree on the k24 owner side. Yes you save a few quid no doubt, but actually the incremental cost is not that great since donor k16s are now pretty cheap, and you could of course sell the k24s. I suppose it depends on how much power you are after, when k24s do come into play.

Talk soon mate.