991.2 - rear steering, over boost for 120 secs and more
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Doubt it. My guess is that Porsche outfitted the prototype with oversized brakes as a precaution since these cars are heavily tracked on the Nurburgring. But a switch to the floating rotors design on the GT3 and Turbo from the one piece cast rotors of the standard 911 would be nice, considering pretty much all other cars in that price range are making floating or semi-floating rotors as the standard.
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Is there any precedent in Porsche's past to a PCM upgrade/swap? I'm about to finally get my hands on my 16 Targa GTS and there is nothing about the 991.2 that is making me jealous with the possible exception of a major upgrade to the PCM (no real details yet of course).
I'm guessing that a swap is highly unlikely I realize but perhaps others have some firsthand experience on previous revisions.
I'm guessing that a swap is highly unlikely I realize but perhaps others have some firsthand experience on previous revisions.
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Is there any precedent in Porsche's past to a PCM upgrade/swap? I'm about to finally get my hands on my 16 Targa GTS and there is nothing about the 991.2 that is making me jealous with the possible exception of a major upgrade to the PCM (no real details yet of course).
I'm guessing that a swap is highly unlikely I realize but perhaps others have some firsthand experience on previous revisions.
I'm guessing that a swap is highly unlikely I realize but perhaps others have some firsthand experience on previous revisions.
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Doubt it. My guess is that Porsche outfitted the prototype with oversized brakes as a precaution since these cars are heavily tracked on the Nurburgring. But a switch to the floating rotors design on the GT3 and Turbo from the one piece cast rotors of the standard 911 would be nice, considering pretty much all other cars in that price range are making floating or semi-floating rotors as the standard.
Not too mention; PAG 'test' these cars in Ca literally weeks before the official launch of the car (Frankfurt) so the cars that appear here are final models.
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Is there any precedent in Porsche's past to a PCM upgrade/swap? I'm about to finally get my hands on my 16 Targa GTS and there is nothing about the 991.2 that is making me jealous with the possible exception of a major upgrade to the PCM (no real details yet of course).
I'm guessing that a swap is highly unlikely I realize but perhaps others have some firsthand experience on previous revisions.
I'm guessing that a swap is highly unlikely I realize but perhaps others have some firsthand experience on previous revisions.
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Doubt it. My guess is that Porsche outfitted the prototype with oversized brakes as a precaution since these cars are heavily tracked on the Nurburgring. But a switch to the floating rotors design on the GT3 and Turbo from the one piece cast rotors of the standard 911 would be nice, considering pretty much all other cars in that price range are making floating or semi-floating rotors as the standard.
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Is there any precedent in Porsche's past to a PCM upgrade/swap? I'm about to finally get my hands on my 16 Targa GTS and there is nothing about the 991.2 that is making me jealous with the possible exception of a major upgrade to the PCM (no real details yet of course).
I'm guessing that a swap is highly unlikely I realize but perhaps others have some firsthand experience on previous revisions.
I'm guessing that a swap is highly unlikely I realize but perhaps others have some firsthand experience on previous revisions.
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First two pics (one from last year and one from the sighting last week in US) show just the standard Carrera brakes with small, non-floating rotors. But the latest official testing pictures released by Porsche shows the use of Turbo/GT3 style 380mm floating rotors. So it is possible that the Carrera now Gets the Carrera 2S brakes while the C2S gets upgraded to the Turbo/GT3 system, which is pretty awesome in my opinion. But anyway, we will see the real spec in just a month time.
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it will be interesting to see what the specs are like!
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I am told that the 991.2 C2S has an exhaust note very reminiscent of an American hot rod.
Sort of a deep throaty growl, very much unlike the current iteration of the 991 TT/TTS exhaust note, which in stock form sounds like a balloon with a hole in it slowly leaking out air.
Sort of a deep throaty growl, very much unlike the current iteration of the 991 TT/TTS exhaust note, which in stock form sounds like a balloon with a hole in it slowly leaking out air.
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The newer videos with the centrally mounted dual actually sounds pretty good.
https://rennlist.com/forums/991/8836...l#post12456759
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Yeah, while it would be awesome if it were true, I really doubt that they succeeded in making a 6 cylinder turbo sound like an American hot rod (which means a V8). I've never heard a turbo that sounded like that and I really doubt the first one to successfully pull it off will be a 6 cylinder. I'll bet they get it sounding decent though.
EDIT, just listened to that video. Maybe they won't get it to sound good. That car sounded more Star Wars TIE Fighter than American muscle.
EDIT, just listened to that video. Maybe they won't get it to sound good. That car sounded more Star Wars TIE Fighter than American muscle.
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Doubt that , but if true, it means the end to decades long derision by 911 owners of the sound of " unsophisticated " large displacement American iron like Corvettes , Camaros, Mustangs, etc.