Evo Mag: Parr Cayman Turbo

Evo Mag: Parr Cayman Turbo

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CaseyfromTPC

17 posts

174 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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read the article. Evo really liked it! that is great and I hope PARR sells many systems. The 11k gbp # seems to be installed with all of the other mods as well... if i read it correctly

caymanred

714 posts

181 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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Ah casey your on piston heads too as well as cayman club! you talked to parr much? how many have they done now?

S1MMA

2,379 posts

219 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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Re: how can it make that much power from such low boost, the answer is in the torque curve. I don't have Evo in front of me but iirc the engine develops approx max 360 lb/ft torque. Formula for bhp = torque in lb/ft * rpm / 5252, so: if the engine is making 360 lb/ft @ 7000 rpm then that is 480bhp. Evo state the car retains it's power delivery - which builds in a fairly linear manner as the rpm rises, so I assume it makes a reasonable amount of torque high up in the rev range, hence why there is what first looks like an out of proportion bhp increase compared to the torque increase. It's all in the rpm!

P.s. An engine that makes 200 lb/ft at 2000rpm is only making 76 bhp, with 200lb/ft at 10000rpm it's making 380bhp! Think of the rpm as the amount of times the torque figure is being delivered to the wheels, or something along those lines. Which is why bike/F1 engines make massive power from so little torque, because it's at such a high rpm.

dom9

8,078 posts

209 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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S1MMA said:
Re: how can it make that much power from such low boost, the answer is in the torque curve. I don't have Evo in front of me but iirc the engine develops approx max 360 lb/ft torque. Formula for bhp = torque in lb/ft * rpm / 5252, so: if the engine is making 360 lb/ft @ 7000 rpm then that is 480bhp. Evo state the car retains it's power delivery - which builds in a fairly linear manner as the rpm rises, so I assume it makes a reasonable amount of torque high up in the rev range, hence why there is what first looks like an out of proportion bhp increase compared to the torque increase. It's all in the rpm!

P.s. An engine that makes 200 lb/ft at 2000rpm is only making 76 bhp, with 200lb/ft at 10000rpm it's making 380bhp! Think of the rpm as the amount of times the torque figure is being delivered to the wheels, or something along those lines. Which is why bike/F1 engines make massive power from so little torque, because it's at such a high rpm.
Yes, I understand all that... But that includes assumptions about what torque it makes... The simple boost calc is just as reasonable and says the figure should be lower and perhaps falls more in line with Casey's whp figures on the page before...

S1MMA

2,379 posts

219 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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dom9 said:
S1MMA said:
Re: how can it make that much power from such low boost, the answer is in the torque curve. I don't have Evo in front of me but iirc the engine develops approx max 360 lb/ft torque. Formula for bhp = torque in lb/ft * rpm / 5252, so: if the engine is making 360 lb/ft @ 7000 rpm then that is 480bhp. Evo state the car retains it's power delivery - which builds in a fairly linear manner as the rpm rises, so I assume it makes a reasonable amount of torque high up in the rev range, hence why there is what first looks like an out of proportion bhp increase compared to the torque increase. It's all in the rpm!

P.s. An engine that makes 200 lb/ft at 2000rpm is only making 76 bhp, with 200lb/ft at 10000rpm it's making 380bhp! Think of the rpm as the amount of times the torque figure is being delivered to the wheels, or something along those lines. Which is why bike/F1 engines make massive power from so little torque, because it's at such a high rpm.
Yes, I understand all that... But that includes assumptions about what torque it makes... The simple boost calc is just as reasonable and says the figure should be lower and perhaps falls more in line with Casey's whp figures on the page before...
really you have to see the torque curve - you're right, it's an assumption that it's making more than expected high up in the rev range. Its simplistic to expect a given increase across the rev range by turbocharging any engine, they will react differently depending on a variety of factors as you know. There are examples of before and after torque curves for boosted Gen 1 caymans, can someone link so we can see (I'm on an iPhone so am limited)

NineMeister

1,146 posts

258 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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Power = 2 x PI x N (rpm) x T (torque)

From the graphs I can find on the net, the standard Cayman S engine makes a flat 320hp from 6000rpm to 7000rpm, which means that the torque curve is falling from 6000rpm onwards as a result of a reducing volumetric efficiency. If you could re-tune the standard engine to produce the same torque at 7000 that it makes at 6000, by manipulating the above equation you would have:

320hp x 7000/6000 = 373hp

As stated above, at 5pi of boost, assuming that you maintain a constant intake temperature you will get approximately (14.5 + 5)psi/14.5psi = 1.34 (134%) increase in the mass of the air going through the engine.

Assuming that the turbochargers are not flat out, it is reasonable to assume that they can maintain this boost pressure up to 7000rpm and let's also allow for an addditional 5% loss in mechanical efficiency due to the extra cylinder pressure & associated heat problems. The resulting power would be:

373hp x 1.34 x 0.95 = 475hp

The claim of 480hp seems reasonable to me provided the engine is intercooled efficiently, which is a big if. For instance, if the air temperature increased from 15C to 40C, the density reduction is 8%, in which case the power would reduce accordingly:

475hp x 0.92 = 437hp

CaseyfromTPC

17 posts

174 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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we run an air/water intercooler that gets cooling from a front mounted radiator(ie factory tiptronic).

98C4S

2,934 posts

190 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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Just re-looked at the posts on Planet Porsche, it seems that any one who is competent in car mechanics, or any garage could install this.

Whats the cost to buy the parts direct?

NineMeister

1,146 posts

258 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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Charge cooling is a reasonable solution, however at some point the system will heat soak, the intake temperature rises and the engine loses power, that's not to say this is a big issue as even factory intercoolers do this on their turbocharged versions. For road use it's probably not an issue, but the big question would be how long does heat soak takes when flat out, on track on a hot summer's day?

In terms of power loss, with a 40C air temp increase you are down 15% and with an 80C increase you are down by 22%, which is a cool 105hp!

98C4S

2,934 posts

190 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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NineMeister said:
Charge cooling is a reasonable solution, however at some point the system will heat soak, the intake temperature rises and the engine loses power, that's not to say this is a big issue as even factory intercoolers do this on their turbocharged versions. For road use it's probably not an issue, but the big question would be how long does heat soak takes when flat out, on track on a hot summer's day?

In terms of power loss, with a 40C air temp increase you are down 15% and with an 80C increase you are down by 22%, which is a cool 105hp!
Blinkin ek, you boys know your stuff..

CaseyfromTPC

17 posts

174 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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We have a number of turbo caymans in extremely hot climates(desert south west US, UAE, Dubai) that have not reported any issues. We also have clients that track their cars on a regular basis w/no issues.

Edited by CaseyfromTPC on Friday 16th October 15:28

dom9

8,078 posts

209 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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NineMeister said:
Power = 2 x PI x N (rpm) x T (torque)

From the graphs I can find on the net, the standard Cayman S engine makes a flat 320hp from 6000rpm to 7000rpm, which means that the torque curve is falling from 6000rpm onwards as a result of a reducing volumetric efficiency. If you could re-tune the standard engine to produce the same torque at 7000 that it makes at 6000, by manipulating the above equation you would have:

320hp x 7000/6000 = 373hp

As stated above, at 5pi of boost, assuming that you maintain a constant intake temperature you will get approximately (14.5 + 5)psi/14.5psi = 1.34 (134%) increase in the mass of the air going through the engine.

Assuming that the turbochargers are not flat out, it is reasonable to assume that they can maintain this boost pressure up to 7000rpm and let's also allow for an addditional 5% loss in mechanical efficiency due to the extra cylinder pressure & associated heat problems. The resulting power would be:

373hp x 1.34 x 0.95 = 475hp

The claim of 480hp seems reasonable to me provided the engine is intercooled efficiently, which is a big if. For instance, if the air temperature increased from 15C to 40C, the density reduction is 8%, in which case the power would reduce accordingly:

475hp x 0.92 = 437hp
Again, with a big assumption about torque...

I am interested in this, hence why I would be interested in seeing numbers from a respected UK rolling road. It looks a very good price, especially what Casey has quoted in USD and is certainly more cost effective £/bhp than pretty much anything else I have seen but I am struggling to see it make this power with that turbo on the base engine. The VE will change when you swap the NA exhaust setup for the turbos and so I don't think you can directly correlate the NA bhp figures with the turbo. As a rule of thumb, sure, but I thought I was generous doing 340bhp x 1.35 keeping the NA inlet temperature constant, which I doubt it will be.

I am just interested that is all... I am just trying to reconcile how much power this is might put through an arguably weak M96/97 block to think about durability etc etc

CaseyfromTPC

17 posts

174 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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The article states that the kits have amassed 30k miles overseas. That isnt even close. We have one client with over 40k miles on the system now. I would say over the world we have ~250k on all of the systems... Heck, we had 20k on our shop car and half of that was dyno/track miles. I can provide any dyno charts needed if anyone wants them. we have independent dynos as well. We have a car in the shop getting race headers(catless) and a boost controller. At 6psi on 93 octane the car is going to make ~455-460whp.

Casey

CaseyfromTPC

17 posts

174 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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http://www.planetporsche.net/cayman-boxster-modifi...

read that... good account of the system.

dom9

8,078 posts

209 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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Sorry Casey, what is the make and model of the turbo you guys use? Is it a single turbo or twin turbos, sorry if I have missed this, but I am not sure it has been explicitly pointed out.

If it is a single turbo, that is some serious power, no one has mentioned lag though, so I assume it has a quick spool?

You say you are doing race headers without the cats, where are the cats in the current system? Ahead or behind the turbo? I assumed you would have had custom headers with teh turbos on the end and then a cat downstream if/ where necessary.

mayes911

5,203 posts

185 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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come on porsche build us a cayman turbo

NineMeister

1,146 posts

258 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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dom9 said:
NineMeister said:
Power = 2 x PI x N (rpm) x T (torque)

From the graphs I can find on the net, the standard Cayman S engine makes a flat 320hp from 6000rpm to 7000rpm, which means that the torque curve is falling from 6000rpm onwards as a result of a reducing volumetric efficiency. If you could re-tune the standard engine to produce the same torque at 7000 that it makes at 6000, by manipulating the above equation you would have:

320hp x 7000/6000 = 373hp

As stated above, at 5pi of boost, assuming that you maintain a constant intake temperature you will get approximately (14.5 + 5)psi/14.5psi = 1.34 (134%) increase in the mass of the air going through the engine.

Assuming that the turbochargers are not flat out, it is reasonable to assume that they can maintain this boost pressure up to 7000rpm and let's also allow for an addditional 5% loss in mechanical efficiency due to the extra cylinder pressure & associated heat problems. The resulting power would be:

373hp x 1.34 x 0.95 = 475hp

The claim of 480hp seems reasonable to me provided the engine is intercooled efficiently, which is a big if. For instance, if the air temperature increased from 15C to 40C, the density reduction is 8%, in which case the power would reduce accordingly:

475hp x 0.92 = 437hp
Again, with a big assumption about torque...

I am interested in this, hence why I would be interested in seeing numbers from a respected UK rolling road. It looks a very good price, especially what Casey has quoted in USD and is certainly more cost effective £/bhp than pretty much anything else I have seen but I am struggling to see it make this power with that turbo on the base engine. The VE will change when you swap the NA exhaust setup for the turbos and so I don't think you can directly correlate the NA bhp figures with the turbo. As a rule of thumb, sure, but I thought I was generous doing 340bhp x 1.35 keeping the NA inlet temperature constant, which I doubt it will be.

I am just interested that is all... I am just trying to reconcile how much power this is might put through an arguably weak M96/97 block to think about durability etc etc
I know from experience with centrifugal superchargers on the 996 and Boxster S that my assumptions can be proven in testing. The torque of the n/a engine drops off when the intake package fails to keep up with the air demand of the engine - be that cam timing, port size, throttle body size or whatever - but when you boost the engine the manifold pressure maintains the same "per cycle" delivery rate to each cylinder, hence the cylinder burns the same mass of fuel/air mix on each bang which results in a near constant cylinder pressure (read torque). I have seen a supercharged 3.6 996 C4S engine make 500hp and a 9m special build supercharged 3.4 Boxster S make 450hp, both with resulting flat line torque curves at the top of the rev range.

CaseyfromTPC

17 posts

174 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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Dom. It is a proprietary single turbo close to the size of a T4 that we build to spec for the application. The "t" in TPC stands for Turbo. We have been doing it for a while. The turbo is after the exhaust Manifold. 99% of cars with the system use stock cats but recently we have been exploring to make more power at the same boost. Shoot me an email if you have further questions.

The system is virtually lag free. very linear.

98C4S

2,934 posts

190 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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I am soo tempted at that price - But it would need a clutch, and brake upgrade too, and who would I trust that wouldnt charge me £4k like the uhm 'UK' installer

CaseyfromTPC

17 posts

174 months

Thursday 15th October 2009
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We recommend Pagid yellow pads and a fluid upgrade. We sell a LWFW and Clutch kit for $2500USD