Would trade your 981 Spyder for 718 Spyder?
11-30-2017, 12:23 PM
#46
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Originally Posted by tq.3z
When you tune the car can't you tune this out? Wasn't your car tuned?
Loud gt3 goes past, no farts, just nice smooth deceleration sound.. spyder and Gt4 backfiring animals. Why?
11-30-2017, 01:39 PM
#47
Interestingly, I think it's worse on some cars. My initial 981 Spyder backfired ridiculously and I was constantly turning off the PSE coming down out of the mountains, but then I noticed that it had a weird buzz on decel with PSE off. Sold that car and bought another 9 months later. This one still crackles, but not as badly and there is no hum when I shut the PSE off.
12-10-2017, 02:16 PM
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The current Spyder is an excellent porsche. But the engine was sandbagged by the factory.
It could use a proper size throttle body and a tune at a minimum. When warranty is out, it wants the X51 package, but there is a cost associated with that.
If the next Spyder actually has the "detuned" engine from the GT3, then it will have the power it has been missing.
It would need 450hp however to make me trade up. Otherwise, I would just X51 the current Spyder.
Porsche need talk me out of doing a X51 upgrade in the current Spyder. Hopefully they can for their sake.
The bodies are the same underside, so the engineering is the same. So it wont be night and day different.
And most everyday people wont beable to tell the difference betwen the two cars.
It all comes down to what Porsche gives us for an engine this time around.
It could use a proper size throttle body and a tune at a minimum. When warranty is out, it wants the X51 package, but there is a cost associated with that.
If the next Spyder actually has the "detuned" engine from the GT3, then it will have the power it has been missing.
It would need 450hp however to make me trade up. Otherwise, I would just X51 the current Spyder.
Porsche need talk me out of doing a X51 upgrade in the current Spyder. Hopefully they can for their sake.
The bodies are the same underside, so the engineering is the same. So it wont be night and day different.
And most everyday people wont beable to tell the difference betwen the two cars.
It all comes down to what Porsche gives us for an engine this time around.
12-10-2017, 02:47 PM
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The current Spyder is an excellent porsche. But the engine was sandbagged by the factory.
It could use a proper size throttle body and a tune at a minimum. When warranty is out, it wants the X51 package, but there is a cost associated with that.
If the next Spyder actually has the "detuned" engine from the GT3, then it will have the power it has been missing.
It would need 450hp however to make me trade up. Otherwise, I would just X51 the current Spyder.
Porsche need talk me out of doing a X51 upgrade in the current Spyder. Hopefully they can for their sake.
The bodies are the same underside, so the engineering is the same. So it wont be night and day different.
And most everyday people wont beable to tell the difference betwen the two cars.
It all comes down to what Porsche gives us for an engine this time around.
It could use a proper size throttle body and a tune at a minimum. When warranty is out, it wants the X51 package, but there is a cost associated with that.
If the next Spyder actually has the "detuned" engine from the GT3, then it will have the power it has been missing.
It would need 450hp however to make me trade up. Otherwise, I would just X51 the current Spyder.
Porsche need talk me out of doing a X51 upgrade in the current Spyder. Hopefully they can for their sake.
The bodies are the same underside, so the engineering is the same. So it wont be night and day different.
And most everyday people wont beable to tell the difference betwen the two cars.
It all comes down to what Porsche gives us for an engine this time around.
12-10-2017, 03:31 PM
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The current Spyder is an excellent porsche. But the engine was sandbagged by the factory.
It could use a proper size throttle body and a tune at a minimum. When warranty is out, it wants the X51 package, but there is a cost associated with that.
If the next Spyder actually has the "detuned" engine from the GT3, then it will have the power it has been missing.
It would need 450hp however to make me trade up. Otherwise, I would just X51 the current Spyder.
Porsche need talk me out of doing a X51 upgrade in the current Spyder. Hopefully they can for their sake.
The bodies are the same underside, so the engineering is the same. So it wont be night and day different.
And most everyday people wont beable to tell the difference betwen the two cars.
It all comes down to what Porsche gives us for an engine this time around.
It could use a proper size throttle body and a tune at a minimum. When warranty is out, it wants the X51 package, but there is a cost associated with that.
If the next Spyder actually has the "detuned" engine from the GT3, then it will have the power it has been missing.
It would need 450hp however to make me trade up. Otherwise, I would just X51 the current Spyder.
Porsche need talk me out of doing a X51 upgrade in the current Spyder. Hopefully they can for their sake.
The bodies are the same underside, so the engineering is the same. So it wont be night and day different.
And most everyday people wont beable to tell the difference betwen the two cars.
It all comes down to what Porsche gives us for an engine this time around.
12-10-2017, 04:57 PM
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I agree with your post with one exception. On the street do you still feel the car needs that much more power? I think the GT4 could really benefit from the 4.0 GT engine and in that instance I think it is an easy decision to trade up. But the Spyder really isn’t meant for track use and other than a stoplight drag race where else does the Spyder really need the power?
I would like to see added torque which makes it that more friendly around town when at low RPM in 3rd and 4th.
12-10-2017, 06:11 PM
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This is something I also agree with, the 987 could also use a bit more torque down low. I’ve learned to keep it in a lower gear which ends up consuming more gas but also makes throttle response snappy! I think a throttle body, exhaust and tuning would fix these issues. Porsches way of intentionally hindering the Boxster and Cayman to keep the pecking order.
12-10-2017, 06:30 PM
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12-10-2017, 07:44 PM
#59
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Originally Posted by tcsracing1
It is indeed plently fast as it is.
I would like to see added torque which makes it that more friendly around town when at low RPM in 3rd and 4th.
I would like to see added torque which makes it that more friendly around town when at low RPM in 3rd and 4th.
12-10-2017, 10:59 PM
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