PSE on a 3.2 987s...anyone?

[Curlo]

Hopefully the Pistonheads Porsche cognoscenti will be able to help with a little question I've got... I've been through the forum archives looking for an answer, but have so far been unsuccessful!

My question is this: does anyone have a PSE fitted to their MY2006 3.2l 987s (whether from the factory or retrofitted)? Investigations with my local Porsche centre seem to suggest that the PSE was only an option on the later 3.4l cars. Thought I'd check with the great and the good on here, as often the Porsche centres aren't totally au fait with things like this. I'm asking as I'm looking at exhaust options and am wondering whether a PSE retrofit should form part of my considerations.

Thanks in advance!

[beanoir]

Loads of chat here about PSE retrofit and other options on a 987R

http://www.caymanoc.com/topic/41-cayman-r-pse/

[Curlo]

Thanks @beanoir, I'll take a look. The Carnewall is and has always been on my list of options - there's an indy specialist close to me that offers this as which means I wouldn't have to drive to Gert to get it done. I've had Millteks on all of my cars in the past, so am looking at those too. @cmoose: I appreciate that the PSE, if available, would be pricey, but OEM fitment is an attractive prospect to me!

[Lox]

My 987.2 had the PSE fitted as a factory option by the first owner and it's great, but if it wasn't already there, I would have gone for a Carnewal conversion, not a PSE retrofit. My mum had her 987.1 fitted with a Carnewal exhaust and it sounds the absolute business. Way cheaper than PSE, sound is at least as good (possibly better) and if yours is a 3.2, presumably you don't need to worry about warranty issues anyway. As far as I'm concerned, there is only upside from Carnewal, no downside.

[Curlo]

Lox said:

My 987.2 had the PSE fitted as a factory option by the first owner and it's great, but if it wasn't already there, I would have gone for a Carnewal conversion, not a PSE retrofit. My mum had her 987.1 fitted with a Carnewal exhaust and it sounds the absolute business. Way cheaper than PSE, sound is at least as good (possibly better) and if yours is a 3.2, presumably you don't need to worry about warranty issues anyway. As far as I'm concerned, there is only upside from Carnewal, no downside.

Thanks for the info @Lox. It's good to have the input from someone who's heard both. In the past couple of days I've found a chap on the PCGB and Planet 9 forums who seems to have retrofitted a PSE to a 987.1 s. Hie did a side by side comparison of the PSE against the Carnewall (both on otherwise identical cars) and he also concluded that the Carnewall was the way forward.

So it does look like it is possible to retrofit a PSE to a 987.1 s (but you have to do it yourself, not at a Porsche Centre, and provided you're sufficiently technically minded and handy with a spanner). That said, it's looking like the Carnewall is the one to go for in any event.

Thanks to all who've responded.