I see a lot of people showing interest in tuning their "poor man" 992, and I did just that.

Earlier this year I took a 2023 base, dropped it off to AIM performance in NJ along with a set of factory S/GTS turbos.

They installed the turbos, their custom titanium exhaust and tuned the car. The car flies and I've beaten many Turbo S without issue. I've run 60-130 as low as 6.2x ​​​​​​, and seems to average around 6.3-6.4 if its not 90 degrees out. For those who use 100-200kph this is about 5.2-5.4. - No doubt with more octane and better traction it will go even quicker.

I am NOT running meth and the only hardware change is the factory S/GTS turbos and an upgraded exhaust. Depending on map I run 93 or 93 with VP octanium unleaded octane booster(bumps it to about 100) - think of these 2 as my daily put around town map and the other my race map.

Meth injection or ethanol would really turn this into a rocket.

The car drives like stock and the performance is flawless every time.

 

Nice... do you have the stock / baseline / 'before' numbers? Also, who's tune?

 

I dont as I dropped it off with 400 miles on it and didnt dragy it during those miles, but looking at online tests and dragy a base seems to be around 11.5 seconds. The tune was by Emre from ESMOTOR working with AIM Performance.

 

That is fast. I got a new Dragy a few months ago and my bone stock '23 992 GTS PDK run is 8.50 for 60-130. So, you're 2 seconds faster than my GTS. Very cool!! I need to try my modded C6 ZR1 on the dragy. That would probably eclipse your time, but not by much.

 

wonderful, do you feel the GTS turbos are enough? I am having the first world problems of either doing the GTS or doing the pure turbos.

 

I had the same feelings, but you cant beat the reliability of the OEM turbos and the power down low is so strong, its a blast to drive at part throttle. - I bet with an Intercooler, meth and more boost it would run high 5s (turbos will most likely be maxed out at that point). It's pretty conservative right now due to octane and still has all the OEM safeguards in place around knock.

I've also heard mixed reviews on Pure turbos lately...so that really pushed me to the OEM hardware.

 

Once it gets to 45ish degrees I bet I'll run very low 6s with no other changes if it hooks...at times its hard to hook below 50 on the stock Pzero. As we know these cars dont like heat and I'm on the factory intercooler and no meth.

For such minor upgrades it was well worth it, for you its just a tune and exhaust away from those times!

 

 

Unlikely, ESMOTOR has tuned TONS of these and there is nothing different about my setup...most owners shy away from tuning anything thats not a Turbo S. I prefer the best bang for the buck and the lighter weight.

Quality fuel and knowing how to read a log go a long way.

 

Great to hear, the ability to keep your stock turbos is a very very good plus to the OEM route. I have the intercooler already, so I'd just need to add on the turbos and potentially meth, are you planning to add meth as well? I'm assuming they used a custom cobb tune for your car?

 

Meth or ethanol are in the near future. It's actually not Cobb, it's called bFlash, its what ESMOTOR uses on the Porsche vehicles not supported by Cobb. I do have a handheld and the ability to change maps with it.

 

wow this is the fastest 992 "S" 60-130 I've ever seen! Impressive! Do you know what your estimated hp/whp is?

My '20 C2S has stage2 M-engineering tune, turbo inlets, catless downpipes, JCR exhaust, and PDK tune... and I got 7.2-7.4 as my fastest times in cooler weather on 93 octane. Starting from about 40-45mph in Sports+ with sports response button pressed. Slower times than yours but lots of variables, could be my tires slipped just a tad as well.

Intercooler won't add any power at all, so it won't help your 60-130 times. It'll just enable you to do rolls consistently and repeatedly without heat soaking.

 

Anyone want to volunteer to keep track of the VINs of these cars, should they hit the used car market?

OP: big numbers. Congrats! Almost as big as your ***** to be able to take a not broken-in car and load up the maps.

 

Doubt I'm the quickest, maybe on OEM turbos as there are a few upgraded turbo base 992 out there running high 9s in the 1/4 and mid 5s 60-130 (stock engine internals)

I dont have Sport chrono, so no sport plus here.

The IC wont add power directly but these cars are very sensitive to boot temps and the byproduct of starting at a lower temp will have impact, not to mention the reduced heat soak. - I haven't seen much good data on the IC upgrades. Do you have the CSF or DO88?

Not mentioned is my TCU is flashed, I recall during their testing this shaved .30 off the 60-130. - Do you have a TCU flash?

The great thing about my base is its very light with little options. Below is with 5/8th tank

 

These engine are broken in the day they are driven off the lot, there is nothing exotic material wise on these engine that warrants any special break-in, taking an easy on the PDK clutches the first few hundred miles and thats it. Road racing where high loads are for extended periods and heat is high is another story - If there was defect the engine was failing no matter the additional load.