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Step 1: Remove small gerbil power and exchange for large gerbil power!

allegretto

'zackly.. BGB all the way. Remember when it took $25K for 20 HP...?

zoom zoom...

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mooty

i know you dont mess around and understand quality.


cool, so one motor for front one for rear?

tcsracing1

some tastey mods! The creative juices are flowing in the Caymen world.

Something about building what the factory never did gets me all warm and fuzzy inside. Must be the hot rodder in me...

How are the lap times in the Daytona 3.8L GTS Cayman compared to the Grand-am Cup 997?

allegretto

Hah, you beat me to it.

Gee I hope he puts mine in the right direction...

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The Daytona lap times were actually impressive when you compare what the 997.1 Cup ars did the first year they arrived on U.S. soil. In 2006, Levitas won in a 996 Cup with ABS in the wet with a dry lap time of 1:54.8 and a fast lap time from a fast Farnbacher 997 Superup Cup program of 1:54.0.

Pole time for the GX Cayman with 3.8 X51 DFI power was also a 1:54.606.

Now it's been 7 years and the 4.0L Cup cars making 75 more rwhp than us and can do 182mph and a lap time of a 1:48 but when you consider what you are paying for and what you are getting with that stock, strong engine, we love the 9A1 engine.

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Don't be ridiculous Mooty! We aren't putting an engine in the front and an engine in the back. I had enough forethought to realize that when I complete the project I have been waiting years to complete, people will discount it and say "it's been done, you haven't done anything great." So I told my techs to put both engines in the Cayman engine bay because I was 99% confident that people would praise our work if we created a 6.5L flat 12 Cayman engine that makes 675hp based on my math of adding 275hp and 400hp and 2.7L + 3.8L! Top that Porsche nay-sayers!

allegretto

plenty of room, just take out the back seats...

tcsracing1

excellent comparison.

I was wondering where it would sit with 996 Cup and stock 997.1 Cup...

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In race trim, the little GX Cayman making 405/305 rwhp and rwtq fits nicely among those two cars. Once you start looking at a Cup car with wide fenders, 3.8L power and even 4.0L power, the little Cayman would need at least the sequential and the 2012 4.0L to keep up.

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And the results are in! It worked...a little bit too well actually! We did both cars within minutes of each other on pump gas.

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bensf

Wow nice, that's impressive.

BlackPenquinn

I have sold an R8 V10 for a track car an chose the Cayman R. Lots of work getting a heigo roll bar (rear), GT2 seats, RSS LCA'S, toe links, trofeos etc. but now I want more power. I love the feel and the balance of his car bit really is a special little beat, but moreover would be great.

What costs and gains are w looking at with a 3.8 conversion vs maximizing the stock engine?

I'm hearing 25-35k for a build. I have also heard a 4.0 Metzger is possible (new tranny too?). Of ourselves there is always the Flatsix 4.2 build.

Anyone actually do one of these? Pros vs cons?
The numbers are one thing, but reliability matters. Especially if you track the car.

ReadyKW

I got a 3.8 GTS junkyard motor.