The 'all Things Porsche' Thread...

[gpaevo]

New 'super' panamera got nurburgring lap record this week for 4 door vehicle. Rumoured to be 820bhp.

Hear This Loud, Potentially Hotter Porsche Panamera Turbo

Porsche was at the Nurburgring the other day with an interesting Panamera Turbo prototype that surely had a different exhaust pumping out more decibels.

www.motor1.com

 

[Lyons]

Just spied this
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Given the cars in the background I assume that’s Hurst? If so it was on display at the Ferrari day. Paint on the front bumper is terrible.

 

[zafturbo]

Given the cars in the background I assume that’s Hurst? If so it was on display at the Ferrari day. Paint on the front bumper is terrible.

This car was through Wilson’s auction a few months ago .the guy in there was telling me all about it and it’s past .it was interesting .

 

[Lyons]

Funnily enough when I saw the Matt black Lambo I wondered was it the one from wilsons, maybe got them both then.

 

[zafturbo]

Funnily enough when I saw the Matt black Lambo I wondered was it the one from wilsons, maybe got them both then.

There was this and another gt3 but not the Rs so it was more road”friendly” to use daily.both owned by same person I think he said .

 

[Q.S Gav]

The colour isn’t for everyone (I love it), but what a rear...

 

[gpaevo]

 

[redanni]

Green is definatly very much in

 

[ChrisL]

 

[Dan.86]

 

[KeithRobinson]

Some shots of my 911 Turbo negotiating the Nurburgring.

Completed 7 laps - car was faultless. I love it even more than before!

 

[ChrisL]

 

[Carson]

These GT3 seats

 

[Ben]

Some shots of my 911 Turbo negotiating the Nurburgring.

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Completed 7 laps - car was faultless. I love it even more than before!

Class!

What was your best time

 

[KeithRobinson]

Class!

What was your best time

Didn’t intentionally time any laps. @Rob did however when he was in as passanger and it was a 9 min dead BTG.
Few shots from our Scottish day trip!

 

[KeithRobinson]

The money shot from @JamieG95

 

[DC.]

World premiere of the new Taycan. Love it.

 

[svensktoppen]

"Turbo"

 

[Eager]

What’s thoughts on 996 turbo over a basic NA 996. Do they have a better engine design ? Much to know or avoid ? The NA engine Sounded terrible and I know others will say it’s ok and not as bad as the internet makes out etc but it’s a no from me.
The x50 pack sounds the job

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[KeithRobinson]

What’s thoughts on 996 turbo over a basic NA 996. Do they have a better engine design ? Much to know or avoid ? The NA engine Sounded terrible and I know others will say it’s ok and not as bad as the internet makes out etc but it’s a no from me.
The x50 pack sounds the job

Porsche 911 Turbo [996] cars for sale - PistonHeads UK

Looking for a Porsche 911 Turbo [996]? Find your ideal Porsche 911 Turbo [996] from top dealers and private sellers in your area with PistonHeads Classifieds.

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The N/A engine sounded terrible? Never heard that complaint. It’s one of the best sounding engines of any car. The X50 engines are the same engine with some mild tweaks which wouldn’t do much for sound. The genuine Porsche sports exhausts sound sublime on them!

I think you might mean the turbo. They don’t sounds as good. My 997 turbo didn’t sound as good as the N/A cars. Sounds decent now with the sharkwerks exhaust.

The 996 turbos don’t have any huge flaws, except the metal sleeve that the coolant pipes attach to can detach. They need pinned which is an engine out job (big labour costs).

The N/A engines are very reliable other than the bearing/bore scoring fear. However most will have suffered by now if they were going to.

 

[Eager]

I don’t mean actual noise. I meant reliability. Chatting to Alan mcgookin I would not touch the NA.

 

[svensktoppen]

That sounds, in all honesty, like a load of nonsense...

Take any engine ever made from any manufacturer and you'll find "stories" about this that or the other going horribly wrong. And then the bandwaggon jumps on and goes "oh this happens all the time to all of those engines", etc.

And then a whole industry of "must have" modifications that apparently everyone must do because some dude in a shed in Surrey or whatever knows better than the manufacturer, and so on.

When in the real world any manufacturer will have made a few duds and that's all there is to it.

Doesn't mean every engine on the planet is about to go bang... If it's a real problem there will be a manufacturer recall or fixed under warranty at the next service.

 

[trev 1515]

I wouldn’t hesitate to buy a 996 turbo, like anything else high performance it could run up a big bill or it could be faultless. I’ve been looking at them the past while, a nice manual turbo is anywhere from £35k up, but holding their value.

 

[KeithRobinson]

There are thousands of 996 and 997 engines with 150k plus miles in them.

They are incredibly reliable in the main. You could get very very unlucky. Porsche do a replacement short motor now for £5k. (Roughly)

 

[riano]

Can any tyre place change tyres with the centre locking wheel nuts or is it best to take the car to Porsche and get them to do it?