Some Recent Pictures
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Steve does do awesome work.
Raj
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Raj, glad to see you and your original ride have been reunited, finally. Looks great!!! As for the upholstery, Flamenco red full leather is indeed very rare. From the completed cabriolet database there were 2 made out of 2,008, one white and one polar silver. I'm still working on the coupe registry but so far I don't have any. BTW, there were actually two flavors of Flamenco red available. The one Raj doesn't have has more black. I'll have to check on the specific differences.
Jeff
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Thanks Rob. Well, once I can find a factory turbo S replacement, I will change it. There is still stuff left to do. Having it at the shop/tuner for the last 13 months didn't help. All my hard work from over the yrs went down the drain and I have to change every nut and bolt. It never ends...
I guess my garage light will be on all winter .
Raj
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Turbo was modified to a different inlet to allow motorsports J Boot. Stock Garrett GT3076R comes with 4 inch inlet. New inlet is 2.75 inhes.
Head was modified by Jon Milledge to rev to 7200rpm. Entire valve train is all new, new lifters (noisy, gotta sort that out) and a cam spec'ed by Jon to work with my turbo.
Exhaust headers/crossover were changed to SFR stage 2, ceramic coated.
APE MAF and cone filter were ditched for stealth Scivision MAF. I wanted to run a factory turbo S style airbox and snorkel. So a motorsports airbox snorkel was added that mates to the driver's side NACA duct for cold air.
Injectors were changed from Bosch 52#'s to Seimens 72#s for added safety.
Initially the car was running 18psi in April, now its been retuned to run 16psi. Still makes same hp as it did with 18psi, but torque curve moved to right a bit. The tuner is working on a dual map setup. Once he has it perfected, maybe I will run a 2nd map to run 18-19psi on race gas.
That's pretty much it.
I have also been toying with the idea if I should add side markers ala Trevor did on his 1st coupe. Still kicking that idea.
Regards.
Raj
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If you had a minute to put together a website with details of this fascinating 968TS, including the timeline of the build and modifications over the years, I'm sure many enthusiasts would appreciate knowing the story behind this great car. Proper conversions with correct factory parts (which make this car closer to a factory 968TS than a replica) are extremely rare, I'd love to read about the different steps of the way!
Thanks for the pics! I bet Heimrath would be pleased to see how far you've taken this car!
Regards,
Chris