Bull

The conversions that I am familiar with are all $20k plus. Paul at ProtoSport in NJ put on a Tech session for our Region last year and did a good job covering the differences between doing a cheap Turbo add-on to an NA motor vs. a proper conversion with key parts strengthened/upgraded to take the 400+hp. There may be found the difference in some widely varying numbers being quoted.

Ritter v4.0

So a quality TT conversion should cost what $25k +/-?

Brett B

If you have some fabrication abilities you can also do a custom single turbo setup like mine:

https://rennlist.com/forums/showthre...0&page=1&pp=15

I couldn't be happier with how it came out, the car runs like a champ. In fact the weather is nice here today, I'm going to go take it for a spin right now.

Jean

You can certainly get a TT conversion from the protos for $15k provided you don't want to race on the track with it. You will be fine for DEs or good fun track events.

Protosport in NJ is a distributor and uses the software programming and some other hardware from Protomotive. Good news is that this keeps the factory Motronic ECU, unlike 99% of other similar upgrades.

Protomotive moved to Arkansas, but you can ship your car there I guess, I shipped my engine from the ME to the US to get the stage 4 build done! One recommendation is to always send the full car to your builder, not the engine, nor buy the parts and put them in yourself, the road test and calibration is as important or more, than the dyno calibration the kit was developped on.

The reason you will go beyond what is advertised is because one usually wants to add an IC and a second oil cooler for instance. It is about choices for sure. For those levels of HP you do not need to upgrade you internals, you will be seeing about 400HP or so. The turbo conversion will be as fast or more than the stock TT. The N/A heads and intake manifold are more efficient than the TT, the N/A will have twin plug too, which is a very good advantage.

You just need to remember you don't have a $50k upgrade in there and you will be fine for many thousand miles (i.e. don't go wild on boost). These "turbo'd" engines are so torquey that you end up running very conservative boost 95% of the time. on a N/a conversion, that would be about 0.3 bar of boost or so.

If you find a full TT engine with harness for $20k I would go for it immediately though, nothing like what the factory provides as far as reliability and resale value (you can sell your stock engine and the delta will be most likely less than the TT conversion) . Don't expect to beat one of those Proto TT conversions though with a stock 993TT.

Ritter v4.0

Could not find anything on Google (looking for a website) for either Protomotive or Protosport- are they the same or affiliated?

TRINITONY

It's in forrt-lauderdale..think it's a yahoo website..keep searching ..it's there.

TRINITONY

http://www.geocities.com/protomotive/pricing.htm

Jean

That would be Prototech in Florida.

The Protomotive website has last been updated probably a few years ago, if you are interested, I would drop an email to Todd Knighton (see website contact page) to discuss options and pricing, since they will have greatly changed since.
Jean

Flying Finn

Brett,

Have not seen that tread before. Nice job!!

dcdude

Here's a cab, now on cars.com

http://medicimotorsports.com/Porsche...Cabriolet.html

I might be the minority here, and CF is cool and all, but paint the MF decklid, dood! Way too ricey for a $70K car!

Something fishy about these Medici folks that I can't put a finger on: redneck, salvage, frankenstein, hmmm...

Dudley

I ran a DE in New Hampshire with a fellow from Cape Cod that did the whole TT engine swap, wide body conversion on a Triple Black Cab. He bought the MY95 Cab new and had the TT swap done by EPE in Natick MA. I don't recall who did the body work. The car was gorgeous and super fast.

Scott 1996 993c2

Nice looking car ... friggin' HAWT wheels ... but someone forgot to paint the rear spoiler.

Those tire sizes seem pretty BIG to me ... unless this car has a WB conversion???

Scott

por29

Here is the latest. A twin turbo conversion. Bumper will be installed after insulation material.

por29

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