Nitrous on a 996

[PorscheFreak]

Try to imagine that I'm not a chavvy scrote, the kind that you cross the street to avoid.

And that my car isn't covered in stickers, and slammed to the ground. Or that I frequent car parks on a Friday and Saturday night, performing handbrake turns to impress alco-pop drinking girls.

Imagine I was somebody that had a love affair with my old, but good condition 996, and because I have such aweful taste in colour combinations I couldn't sell it to buy a 996 Turbo.

Other than the cold air induction system that I already have fitted, I'm guessing that really, the only other thing you could do to the car to eek out some more power would be to add a nitrous kit.

It's probably not been done too often to 911's, seeing as the prices and insurance group have kept them reasonably well out of "Barry" territory.

Has anybody had any real world experience of driving a car with nitrous? Is it noticable? I'm guessing it's nowhere near as dramatized as the F&F films would have you believe, but could much be achieved with 75bhp jets other than complete detonation of my car?

[PorscheFreak]

Quick google search tells me that you will all be lighting fires and chasing me with pitchforks for daring to suggest nitrous on a Porsche.

Apparently the 996 is good enough at lunching it's own engine without any assistance.

Oh well, I'll just tell people that it's a future classic, and therefore needs to be driven gently.

[jkh112]

There are supercharger kits available for the 996 Carrera. This would give you turbo rivalling performance, but I am not sure of the cost.

[Magic919]

Nitrous was pretty obvious when I ran it on a previous car. Added enough power to a heavy car to give some of the supercharged ones some grief.

Only adds power when you want it, so not straining the engine all the time.

[911p]

Since your other thread just disappeared, here's what I was it the middle of posting. Definitely worth a consideration IMO;

mollytherocker said:

By all means, supercharge it if you must, but I think it will cost you more than 6k, once everything is taken into account.

And it will put nil value on the car. I don't see the logic, unless you really like the car and want to keep it, then fair enough.

I would sell it privately for about 11k and put the money towards a proper 996 turbo.

+1

Here's a spanner in the works - how about a Mk2 996 C2 manual? It will be in a different league performance wise. It was for us anyway when we went from a Mk1 C4 tip, to a Mk2 C2 manual. The C2 was much quicker.

If you can get an X51 they will be even further apart. The cost to change into an excellent example of one would probably be less than the cost to supercharge your current car, or indeed to install a nitrous system and need a new engine again.

[PorscheFreak]

Porsche mag is telling me that a manual 3.6 C2 should hit 60 0.2 seconds quicker than my current C4 tip.

No doubting that a manual box will feel quicker and more involving to drive. But I don't think it warrants a change in car.

Plus any other 996 I buy is going to need something doing to it, not sure I fancy going through it all again after having to give mine away due to it's colour.

I think if I just keep the car (as I do really like the colour combo) I'll spend the 6k on a charger, will allow an extra 800 for fitting (can be done in a day apparently) and have a fairly unique coloured, non turbo looking, yet very good condition, and hopefully very fast 996.

[graemel]

Just a thought. Why not test the water and advertise the car. If it sells at a price you are happy with then that gets you into a turbo. If not go with plan B

[james S]

It would well worth driving a supercharged 911 before you go down this route. It dramatically changes the character of the engine in a way which some people love and others don't. Don't be fooled by the numbers, its the way it drives you need to be comfortable with.

I had one on my 993 C4S, but had taken it off within 6 months. Also be aware its is unlikely to be fitted and then working 100% from day one. Adjustments, fettling, mapping etc often mean a few trips back to get it sorted properly, so factor this into the decision, and also who you get to do it so you are not traipsing accross the country lots of times

I ought to say that the guy I sold mine to loved it, but it wasn't my thing at all.

[911p]

PorscheFreak said:

Porsche mag is telling me that a manual 3.6 C2 should hit 60 0.2 seconds quicker than my current C4 tip.

No doubting that a manual box will feel quicker and more involving to drive. But I don't think it warrants a change in car.

The 0-60 time quoted for your car is actually 6.2 secs, compared to 5.0 secs quoted for a 3.6 C2 manual (4.8 for X51), meaning the sprint to 60mph in yours actually takes over a second longer.

For reference a Turbo is 0.8 secs quicker to 60 than a 3.6 C2, and a GT3 0.5 secs quicker. This means you will feel a big performance differential, as much as moving from a manual 3.6 C2 to a Turbo would give you.

It's your money, but what happens if you spend £7k+ and decide you still want to sell in a few months anyway? Just my 2p.