Mod or don't mod.
Do what you like.
Live and let live.
The other side is not wrong.

 

I don’t know that anybody likened the desire to personalize with a vehicle deficiency.

 

If someone puts on an aftermarket exhaust system to make the car louder, because it wasn’t loud enough, is along the lines of what I meant.

 

For those who mod their cars, what do you do about the warranty? Do you just roll the dice and not worry about it knowing you could afford any repairs needed caused by your mod? Like, if I ecu tune my car and the engine blows, that’s one hell of an expense to not be warrantied. Hell, even if there was an engine problem not caused by the tune, but the tune voided the warranty - ouch.

When I was younger I’d ecu tune every car I could, most recently a 718 Cayman - but that one was tuned by the dealer and they agreed to maintain the warranty. Prior to that, the cars were either out of warranty already, or the cars were cheap enough I could absorb the hit, or the tune was “not detectable” supposedly (never had to find out). Currently with a 992.1 S and while I’d love to tune it to GTS levels the idea of losing the warranty scares the hell out of me - even though I could afford the hit, ooof, I’d much rather not.

 

There are levels to the mod game. Sometimes it’s mainly aesthetics and other times people venture into engine and ECU tuning. Each modification comes with risk; some extremely low and others rather significant. Like you, I’m not at the point where I’m comfortable with ECU tuning. The performance benefits are absolutely there, but I’m a bit too risk averse to take the plunge at this time. I mod mainly for aesthetics personalization.

 

Modded mine to make it quieter.

 

I'm 35 and recently took delivery of my 2024 Carrera T. I'm one of the manual diehard guys which I think may play into this a bit... That'd be another interesting metric to track. I've modified every car I own as well. I modify in order to improve aesthetics, but even more so to increase engagement and drama from the car. It needs to look good, but sound and feel are especially even more important to me.

I've had my Carrera T for two weeks, and I just installed H&R Sport springs over the weekend along with some spacers. This was the main thing that was bothering me aesthetically and now I feel much more satisfied every time I look at the car... and that's an example of why I modify. I also like working on my cars myself; for me its like adult Legos. I find it really enjoyable to work with my hands and to put my mind into a different mode after working on the computer all week. And as a Mechanical Engineer, modifying and working on cars appeals to my innate need to "tinker."

Other than getting rid of the amber side markers, my next modifications will be to change the engine sound a bit. I would like to hear more from the intake as well as the exhaust. I'd also like to change the tone of the exhaust a bit to extract the most sonorous exhaust note possible from the 3.0L. So within the next year or so I'm looking toward the Do88 or APR intake as well as a JCR rear section, sport cats, and possibly equal length headers. The last modifications I'll probably do include a tune and maybe GTS turbos, but maybe not until the warranty has expired.

 

This is almost exactly what I want to do with my Carrera T. Could you describe how the APR intake changed the induction sound? I'm also interested to know if you found that the Kline equal length headers made a big difference in the tonality as well? It's super difficult to find any videos of that exhaust setup. If you have clips to share I'd love to see them!

 

I got all my modding desire out in my 20s. I have no interest for any mods as I always tend to brake something that was working perfectly fine before. I don't have the luxury of time or patience for self inflicted problems anymore.

That and my GTS was specced exactly to my liking. Thanks to Porsche's black hole of options, it has scratched my itch to do anything further.

 

My modding has evolved. I still mod all my vehicles somewhat, but my taste is now OE+. I’ll retrofit options that weren’t available that I like or pull parts I think are cool from another model. I’ll upgrade stereo, add sound deadening, make coding or tuning changes. But the appearance of the car will typically be what I call OE+.

 

How the hell does one make a new 911 "quieter"? The stock exhaust on a 992 sounds like a Camry going up the street.

 

You can make the inside a lot quieter with sound deadening.

 

dup.

 

Don't forget reliability. OEM's aren't perfect and modification can be about correcting these flaws. *cough* IMS Bearing *cough*

 

I'm sure you can.
How quiet is a high performance sports car supposed to be.
Personally I'd love to have the cabin noise that my old 930 had many years ago.