Choice Made!

[James s]

A trip down to Henry's estate last night proved exciting, if a little expensive.

I pick up my 993 C4S on Saturday.

Really glad I did the 944t and 968 CS thing - particularly the latter, but once 911's are under your skin they stay there.

I wanted a 993 C2 but ended up with this beast. Bright yellow C4S with turbo spoiler and 9m supercharger.

The 'search function' is down - anybody remind me how to upload pictures

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[verysideways]

Congrats! That did look like a nice car. I hope you're very happy with her!

I torn between a 'charger and an Ultima at the mo...

VS

[evil jack]

Congrats. Well done. You went a bit over budget in the end then eh?

Are you going to keep the supercharger on, or return it to the original Varioram spec?

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[James s]

Not sure about the blower - seems to be all about torque the car is currently runing a bit up at 340 bhp. but the big difference is that the torque is all there from the word go.

It was a bit over budget and selling the blower could recoup funds

[verysideways]

let me know if you want to sell the blower...



VS

[cyberface]

Welcome to the supercharged club

Surprised that you're not sure about the blower though. It makes the car so much nicer to drive. As to the tailing off of top-end power, I'm pretty sure this is an artefact of the mapping solution used (i.e. standard 993 ECU with supplementary chip and injector). Ninemeister, I believe, will do a remap on the rolling road to solve this...

[James s]

I'm not doubting it Cyberface, just havn't made my mind up if I want it standard or 'large.

It certainly makes a hell of a noise when you wind it up

By the way out of interest what is the peak torque yours is producing. I have the BHP figure but not the all important twisting stuff as I don't have the car or paperwork yet

[cyberface]

Around 300 lb ft if I remember correctly... the 9m guys were having problems with the printer connected to their rolling road, so I only got a photograph of the RR screen display rather than a proper printout

Yours may be slightly more powerful / torquey... it looks like Colin Jones' old car, and I'm sure he had the smaller diameter pulley on the blower. He was also talking about getting 9m to remap the ECU, but I'm not sure if he ever got it done or not.

Any more power than around 330-340 bhp will require an intercooler, which is the next development stage - Colin @ 9m mentioned they could do the kit, but I can't remember whether it would require big wings / removal of aircon, etc. (mine is a standard looking car with electric spoiler)

[James s]

Yes it is Colin's old car and does have the smaller pulley.

I don't think I'll be going for amy more powerit has more power than I have ability as it is.

Do you know the car at all

[cyberface]

James s said:

Do you know the car at all

No - just exchanged a bunch of emails with Colin when I was deciding whether to supercharge mine or not...

[evil jack]

Incidentally, what put you off Henry's other 993 C4S? (The arena red one)

[verysideways]

It's a lot more money for starters isn't it? Like 5k?

[evil jack]

Ah - James's must've been a bit cheaper than I remember
The red one looks a cracker. Must be reasonably low miles - bit over my budget though....

[gazzab]

Didnt henry have a silver one as well?

[evil jack]

Well he's certainly got a nice silver C2S in. I'm looking at another C2S tomorrow. If I'm not happy with that I may be paying my first visit to Henry

[James s]

the C2S was lovely as was the red one