Vanilla 996 Turbo or give it some steroids
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Crimp a Length! said:
Well as you know i parted company with the widow maker back end of last year after fulfilling my dream of owning and experiencing the brute.
It was soon established that practicality aside i wasn't an experienced enough driver to tame the beast so after long sleepless nights decided to move it on.
Anyway thats water under the bridge. I decided for my 10th 911 to get another 996 Turbo, yeah its a bit sanitised in areas, yeah its a bit quiet, but boy they are still very very quick and lets face it they do everything very well, probably too well which brings me on to my issue.
I spotted my car at 911v met Tom liked him and the car, gots some "bits and bobs" attended to and we did the deal, very smooth and he delivered the car personally to my house (Sheffield)
My plan was to get an early well sorted manual car at good value, this ticked the boxes having had 8k of work by Ken at 9E, new turbo's etc etc. Then get an exhaust with some bark and have the engine sorted probably aim for 650 BHP which as you know is nothing for this engine & the 6T guys on here would offer their advice.
Sorry for the waffle, anyway now i have the car and have driven on numerous occasions (got it to use) and this weekend its had its first infamous Crimp wash & wax, i actually quite like it as it is & feel it maybe a shame to molest it with all the mods. Its a low mile low owner standard car
Toyed with the idea of doing mine, but in the end, left standard. They are great as they are. And as I understand it, once you go down the mod route, you will never be happy and always want more!It was soon established that practicality aside i wasn't an experienced enough driver to tame the beast so after long sleepless nights decided to move it on.
Anyway thats water under the bridge. I decided for my 10th 911 to get another 996 Turbo, yeah its a bit sanitised in areas, yeah its a bit quiet, but boy they are still very very quick and lets face it they do everything very well, probably too well which brings me on to my issue.
I spotted my car at 911v met Tom liked him and the car, gots some "bits and bobs" attended to and we did the deal, very smooth and he delivered the car personally to my house (Sheffield)
My plan was to get an early well sorted manual car at good value, this ticked the boxes having had 8k of work by Ken at 9E, new turbo's etc etc. Then get an exhaust with some bark and have the engine sorted probably aim for 650 BHP which as you know is nothing for this engine & the 6T guys on here would offer their advice.
Sorry for the waffle, anyway now i have the car and have driven on numerous occasions (got it to use) and this weekend its had its first infamous Crimp wash & wax, i actually quite like it as it is & feel it maybe a shame to molest it with all the mods. Its a low mile low owner standard car
Anyway, I am sure those who have modded will thoroughly recommend it, and due to nature of the engine, it is very tunable as you know...all down to personally preference, but for me, wanted to leave it standard after some thought!
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