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I'm certainly no photographer, but these are special pictures. This pics are day 1 of Porsche ownership with delivery of my T. My son and I are pictured with the car at the dealership. The last pic is in the garage with artificial lighting. LOVE the car so far.
Pete - Just a few hours with 008 (delivered today). Particularly love the 911S Content. Please relay my appreciation to Jethro and Alex. Superb photography and storytelling.
My 19' Carrera T is my daily and it's winter here. While driving up to the cottage tonight it was clear and the pdls works amazingly well...thought I'd stop and snap a pic:
Never! My cars are dirty more often than they're truly clean—even "cars and coffee" clean. Can't remember the last time one was "concours clean" (besides when new or just detailed by someone who knows what they are doing. 1995? Never?
Originally Posted by TeutonicCarFan
Pete is your car lowered?
Yes, on TechArt springs.
Originally Posted by bonn72
The dirtier, the better. Everyone has 'clean' pics.
Amen.
Originally Posted by bonn72
Originally Posted by CamsPorsche
Hey Pete,
My 19' Carrera T is my daily and it's winter here. While driving up to the cottage tonight it was clear and the pdls works amazingly well...thought I'd stop and snap a pic:
Ooh. Two strong contenders, although I did like that Houndstooth in use. And the family pics and T on 19s for snow pull at heartstrings too.
A question for Bonn, with that image that reminds me just how beautiful the update taillights are: Did you take the image?
Thanks stout. Yes. Just took the image tonight. Smoking a cigar in the garage contemplating what I could do that is a bit different. I’ve always loved the lights with no distraction in pure darkness. Actually took it with the iPhone even though I have a few grand in camera gear. Go figure.
Contemplating getting my T lowered. It comes with SPASM, as you know. Litchfield offer to tweak the suspension with new springs etc. It lowers the car by a further 10mm at the back and 20mm at the front. I don’t have front axle lift. Any thoughts of whether this would be practical for my daily driver, in light of your experience with the TechArt springs?
Threat of hail one evening at work. Not for the competition, already have that issue. Just thought you dudes would find the pic as amusing as my guys at work did
Contemplating getting my T lowered. It comes with SPASM, as you know. Litchfield offer to tweak the suspension with new springs etc. It lowers the car by a further 10mm at the back and 20mm at the front. I don’t have front axle lift. Any thoughts of whether this would be practical for my daily driver, in light of your experience with the TechArt springs?
Cheers,
Simon
Been kind of thinking about doing a TechArt/DSC review here, as it isn't a fit for 000. Still gathering impressions, and need to get this car up to the loop, but my sense is that if I had to do it over again (and knew I was going to do DSC, which I didn't), I would probably do the H&R setup with the adjustable perches that works on the PASM dampers. The TechArt/DSC combo is very good, and nearly factory, but has some 2-5% of the time drawbacks in terms of damping. It does, of course, look far better 100% of the time. And as much as I am about performance, I hate high-riding sports cars. They just look wrong to me, as if the manufacturer said, yeah, we know it looks bad, but customers don't know how to drive (which, of course, is true). People also need snow clearance, which I fully respect.
As to practicality, I ordered nose lift on this Carrera because I knew I would lower it and our cars don't have the disposable black lip the GT cars do. So the stakes are a lot higher. Never touched the bumper in the Oak car at 4x4 ride height, and have yet to touch the bumper in this one—but where it would have been nice in the Oak car it's a necessity here unless I want to severely limit the use of the car. Which I don't. -10 and -20 on a T or Carrera S/GTS with Sport PASM might be lower than I'd want to go—with or without Nose Lift. Hard to know, as it seems like the 991.2 SPASM cars sit a bit higher than the 991.1 SPASM cars, but that gets me back to those adjustable perches. To be honest, I'd probably raise my mild drop on TechArts just a bit if I could, probably +5mm at the rear and +8mm or +10mm at the front. I don't think it would lose much in terms of looks, and I do think it would gain something in terms of performance. There's that "little window" when it comes to lowered cars, where it looks like the factory might have done it that way…and I don't care for slammed cars.
I've also begun to wonder about ARBs, and if it would be worth it for someone like Levitas to come up with a "Stage 1" go-to setup for base 991.2 Carreras. Maybe H&Rs, DSC, ARBs, recommended height and alignment settings. Quite honestly, my car, as it sits, is already very, very good. As is a dead stock 991.2 Carrera. I wonder what could be achieved.
My 19' Carrera T is my daily and it's winter here. While driving up to the cottage tonight it was clear and the pdls works amazingly well...thought I'd stop and snap a pic:
4. Ready to go early this morning...
See above. The T and me, taken by my older daughter
3. Emma about to take the T for a spin!
2. Refuel on the way home.
1. Cooling down after 360 miles covered in a day.
Last edited by Wing Commander; 01-05-2019 at 03:10 PM.
Reason: Photos in wrong order!
01-04-2019, 09:51 PM
