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Did a fluid flush and put fresh pads on the Turbo S.
Just for reference, Turbo is just under 67,000 miles, these are the original pads. First 55,000 miles of that (under first owner) it led a pretty easy life, virtually all highway miles. I've put about 12,000 additional miles on it, with almost all of it being mountain roads and a few track days.
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New pad thickness (OEM Akenobo): 11.2mm
Rear pad take-offs: 7mm (62% pad life remaining)
Front pad take-offs: 6mm (53% pad life remaining)
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Rotors looked great with no chips or wear indicators. Pads also looked good with no abnormal wear. Pretty even wear inside to outside.
For street use, the pads had plenty of life left in them. I do occasionally track the car (though I kind of prefer to track the 996 Turbo), and having more pad thickness is thought to be much gentler on the rotors and helps prevent damaging the $30,000 carbon ceramic rotors.
The pads themselves were about $1,200 for all four corners from FCPEuro. Somewhat cheaper from other OE parts resellers. Went with Castrol SRF Fluid.
I got the chance to do a little bit of arts & crafts. New wheels and tires went on my Turbo S yesterday, and the center caps for the new wheels turned out to be smaller diameter than Porsche OEM caps. So I broke out Photoshop and the Cricut and improvised.
Felt good to see a problem, devise a solution, and execute on it all in the same day for almost no cost. They look pretty good to me from a standing-next-to-the-car vantage point!
Tires are Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 Connect 240, wheels are VRForged D12. I also had the mobile installer (for $120 total install cost + tip, can’t recommend not having to leave your house enough) put both TPMS sensors in the new wheels as well as the Michelin Track Connect sensors. The app is pretty cool, it’s doing something funky with where it thinks each wheel/tire is but otherwise seems to work well. Looking forward to giving it a shot at a lapping day coming up at the end of the month, and then the Virginia City Hill Climb in September…
Finally took her out for a drive after a pretty thorough treatment.
HRE FF104 wheels and Conti tires
Techart springs (alignment happening Wednesday)
Sharkwerks exhaust with HJS cats
Car already had the IPD plenum we discovered (score!)
Rear tail and reflector tint
New plugs and coil packs
Full synthetic oil change
Other minor fun things
Just waiting to install the RS side skirts and get the Moshammer scoops painted and on. Old PPF removed, paint correction and PPF reapplied. Then she'll be done!
Finally got it out today after swapping wheels yesterday. Went to visit some family, so no major mountain driving but find this cool spot for a quick pic.
Finally took her out for a drive after a pretty thorough treatment.
HRE FF104 wheels and Conti tires
Techart springs (alignment happening Wednesday)
Sharkwerks exhaust with HJS cats
Car already had the IPE plenum we discovered (score!)
Rear tail and reflector tint
New plugs and coil packs
Full synthetic oil change
Other minor fun things
Just waiting to install the RS side skirts and get the Moshammer scoops painted and on. Old PPF removed, paint correction and PPF reapplied. Then she'll be done!
Nope...considered adding one while we had her all torn apart but decided against it at this time. May add it in the future though. She already had the BMC air filter as well, so I got to return the one I'd ordered 🤣
Nope...considered adding one while we had her all torn apart but decided against it at this time. May add it in the future though. She already had the BMC air filter as well, so I got to return the one I'd ordered 🤣
Big score on the plenum. Interesting that it was the only mod since it is the hardest to install.
08-04-2022, 06:02 PM
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