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Shaving these 4 pounds off is the best performance upgrade you can make to you 911!!!

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Old 07-11-2017, 04:18 PM
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Hey everyone,

So I finally decided to make the first major performance upgrade to my 911. It took some special tooling and couple of Goldschläger shots but I managed to shave off 4 lbs from the most critical point in body geometry. And WOW the car handles so much better! It is NIGHT and DAY.

I felt the weight distribution has moved a bit forward, and chassis feels perfectly balanced now. I can carry additional Gs through decreasing radius S-sweeper turn #2 near my subdivision entrance. I highly recommend this upgrade to everyone!

If you guys are interested I can setup a group buy to purchase a $199.99 Porsche Philips screwdriver and $49.99 bottle of Goldschläger required for this upgrade.




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Originally Posted by JawJuh
Hey everyone,

So I finally decided to make the first major performance upgrade to my 911. It took some special tooling and couple of Goldschläger shots but I managed to shave off 4 lbs from the most critical point in body geometry. And WOW the car handles so much better! It is NIGHT and DAY.

I felt the weight distribution has moved a bit forward, and chassis feels perfectly balanced now. I can carry additional Gs through decreasing radius S-sweeper turn #2 near my subdivision entrance. I highly recommend this upgrade to everyone!

If you guys are interested I can setup a group buy to purchase a $199.99 Porsche Philips screwdriver and $49.99 bottle of Goldschläger required for this upgrade.




Excellent suggestion. What do we do with the Porsche Phillips screw driver thereafter? Putting it in the frunk could dip the nose into tarmac when braking aggressively. Challenges, challenges, challenges!!!
Old 07-12-2017, 02:45 PM
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You have to be pulling our leg... That's 3.75 lbs at most.
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maybe 4 ounces
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I guess sarcasm doesn't translate well when written down...to some.
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I did this but with the suncoast one, savings were 11 pounds!
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Good news everyone, after some Friday morning shots I was able to make some more ground-breaking modification to the 911.

Key was to put a 33 lbs dog food bag in the frunk. Since the dog food bag sits so close to the road, it dramatically lowers entire car's center of mass by 2 inches. Now driving my 911 feels like taking pole position in a Formula 1 car. While cornering my subdivision's sweeper turn #4, the jarring G-forces undid my shoelace and got my attractive German foreign-exchange student date giddy with joy.


I have explained this modification to Zuffenhausen, and they have assured me that a 33 lbs Porsche dog food bag will be available as a $2499 option for 2019 Carrera GT3 TGIF everyone!





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