Westcoast

You guys are really making this hard, I thought that I had dodged the bullet when I didn’t make to Parade last year (DeMan was an easy drive away), could have added a few days to that trip and had the swap done...

Perhaps I need to enact Plan B, get the gears shipped and do a local installation..

Adrift

@burnergt4 Can you do a quick summary of the LSD swap, in terms of how it changed the behavior of the car?

Doing a 4.5 mod on a 4RS would be fiscal lunacy, but I guess some people wipe their butts with $$$.

JAhmed

FIFY

burnergt4

In addition to everything else you'd expect, it completely killed rear-end wiggle under hard braking.

In my 981 4.5L I had a Guard LSD basically for the entirety of my ownership and never could get why everyone kept talking about the rear end getting loose under hard braking. But then I took delivery of my 718 with the stock diff, and during some initial shakedown drives I figured out what everyone was on about (not even going very fast, we're talking from 50mph down to 20—the amount the back end moved around was shocking). Had the diff swapped at the same time was the gears, issue solved.

There's a lot of chat about alignment and suspension bits taming the rear end instability under braking, I honestly think replacing the stock LSD with something more substantial goes a long way towards solving the issue.

Rick DeMan

The GT3/GT3RS and GT4 RS engines are completely different from the 981/718 GT4/Spyder engines.

But 4.5L is possible on them all. The outputs can not be compared but they are both very strong!

991.2RS PDK to 4.5L 537WHP on my Dyna Pac dyno
991.1 RS
991.2 GT3 Touring
Currently 992 GT3 Touring on the Dyno. 518 WHP and not finished yet.

cooler2442

718 4.5L GT4 with a big build(136k) and low miles(7k) with the full deman package just sold for 159k on PCarMarket, guess that's the new price ceiling on these.

dnimi123

And it was on 'reserve' so clearly the seller was expecting a loss. I think he was in it for close to $200k ($136 plus $54 to Rick plus Alpha)... OUCH. Maybe you gotta keep these things a long long time and get your fun out of them...

dnimi123

Can anyone let me know the cost range is to to the LSD?

Ksdaoski

Was listed here for 200k before the auction

TDT

@Westcoast … is this an offering now?

colnagoG60

$2,500 - $6k

Rick DeMan

I dont believe it sold.. reserve was higher.

DFW01TT

Looks like it did sell.
Does any warranty transfer?

Westcoast

It was when I asked Rick about it one year ago... you will have to ask him if he will still do this.

dnimi123

Either way the value of your cars is in the absolute joy they bring and not necessarily the resale value. I think everyone appreciates what you do regardless of the cost up front or on the back end.