Base 991 2014 performance upgrades?
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Base 991 2014 performance upgrades?
Never gad a car this fast, but now that I am used to it I was interested in exploring ways to make it faster. What are my options since I did not go with the sport model? I am having trouble finding any threads about this here. Thanks 
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I think you'll find the 3.4 is a wonderfully capable car and probably won't be beyond your skill as a driver for a long while. Join your local PCA chapter and take it to the track and learn to drive well. That will make your car "faster". And you'll have fun and learn something.
As for physical alterations to the car, your only option is probably an exhaust upgrade that may add a dozen horsepower if you're lucky.
Also - can we please not turn this thread into yet another one full of snarky bastards? Please, just once?
As for physical alterations to the car, your only option is probably an exhaust upgrade that may add a dozen horsepower if you're lucky.
Also - can we please not turn this thread into yet another one full of snarky bastards? Please, just once?
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I think you'll find the 3.4 is a wonderfully capable car and probably won't be beyond your skill as a driver for a long while. Join your local PCA chapter and take it to the track and learn to drive well. That will make your car "faster". And you'll have fun and learn something.
As for physical alterations to the car, your only option is probably an exhaust upgrade that may add a dozen horsepower if you're lucky.
Also - can we please not turn this thread into yet another one full of snarky bastards? Please, just once?
As for physical alterations to the car, your only option is probably an exhaust upgrade that may add a dozen horsepower if you're lucky.
Also - can we please not turn this thread into yet another one full of snarky bastards? Please, just once?
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There was a Fifth Gear Episode where they went through a bunch of modifications to try to make a car go faster around a track and the #1 thing to make a car go faster around a track was to take a driving class. 
Look up the episode.
Look up the episode.
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Also spending the money for high octane gas, like 95, will give you a legitimate power increase.
I'd rather spend on a drum of gas than mods that dont work.
I am secretly waiting for a Supercharger kit......
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Okay, curious: "used to it"? You need more than a thousand horsepower? That's about what you have now. And I'm being conservative. You sure you're "used to it"?
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It didn't matter if you were a woman, we had a couple of those and they were faster than any of the non-instructed guys. It didn't matter what kart you chose. One of my friends complained we were better at picking the fast karts. Which was true! When you learn how to drive you also learn what's fast- really fast, not BS straight line fast. So we had them cross-ref and list times by kart, and guess what? Same result! Pick any kart, fast or slow, the people who were instructed in driving were faster with it. There was no overlap, anywhere. Period.
In fact, it didn't even matter if you were fast "before". One friend who was there, Doug, was always faster than me when we were young. Bicycles, motorcycles, pickup trucks, cars, did not matter he just always seemed to know how to go faster than me. Then when I joined PCA and began, for the first time in my life, learning how to drive, I tried and tried and tried to get him interested. This was the guy by the way who first got me interested in Porsches, telling me about his Uncle Dale, who wound up giving me my first ride in a 911, a 75 Turbo. Anyway now there was Doug, firmly ensconced in the bottom half, nowhere near my times and even well below some women and the one guys kid.
Its like the scene in Knight and Day, "with instruction, without instruction…"