KRA993tt

Does the ride height look right? It looks SUV like to me. Anyways Bob your car would shred that stock S any day




Keith

Carrera GT

I haven't heard of the Turbo S ducts being available as a build option. Your car would have an option code under the hood and an entry on the window sticker. If you've lost the sticker, a $70 certificate from PCNA would confirm the build spec.
I also don't understand how they could build a '96 car with a '97 car feature? Maybe they're taking it from a 964 or the 959? ...

ps. What prompted the bare metal body work on the rear quarters?

Carrera GT

Good eyes! It _MUST_ have the "Turbo S script on the pocket of the trunk carpet, the trunk carpet has holes (not slots) cut (and not trimmed) around the black brackets holding the carbon fibre tube of the front strut brace, the Turbo S on the fake CF facia over the glove box air bag is correct as is the detail in every other photo except he doesn't show the Turbo S script on the back of the rear seat backs or the front floor mats. The window sticker corresponds to the car's options, including the wildly expensive carbon steering wheel. This car must have been a bear to order -- the dealer must have spent hours on phone and fax to make sure it all lined up with colours and contrast stitching.

Carrera GT

The signature of the Turbo S is the twin pipes of the exhaust. And this car does have the CF tube on the strut brace. The www.calmotorsports.com car has very high miles (by Turbo S) standards and it's in quite scrappy condition. I looked at it and I'd recommend any serious buyer be wary of the oil consumption in the engine of that particular car.
I'm told Porsche no longer provides the carbon tube as a part, even for Turbo S owners. I'd love to find one.

Carrera GT

How and where did you get those part numbers?
Porsche is quite secretive about legit specific 993 Turbo S part numbers, so I have no easy way to verify.

Carrera GT

The ducts on the rear flanks aren't functional -- stick your finger in there, it just hits the top of the plastic liner of the rear wheel arch. It's not functional and it's nothing to do with the intercoolers or air intake etc.
Turbo S owners have mentioned that when stopped, heat escapes through the duct, but there's not internal ducting, it's just air escaping as it rises from the heat.
I think perhaps "autobarn" (below) is talking about the nose "Turbo S" ducts which, again, aren't functional, but can be easily ducted to the hub of the front rotors.

Carrera GT

Sadly, all 993 nose caps look that bad and the rubber (plastic) black joint between the nose and the hood and quarter panels is always a mess -- much to the annoyance of owners and body work repair people. But the alignment between the top of the nose cap and the leading edge of the hood is wrong. And it should be dead parallel.

For sure the front "chin" spoiler is missing. There are several "deal breaker" questions for a car with only 5000 miles or so:

Where's the original trunk carpet?

Where's the chin spoiler?

Why doesn't the hood line up with the nose cap?

Without a professional and expert inspection, you'd be pressing your luck buying this example. Plus, like it or not, that colour scheme in the cabin will reduce the price, not make it more exclusive.

Also, the numbers about 993 Turbo S production (quoted at 153) and the number of Polar Silver (quoted at 5) are just plain wrong. Polar was one of the more popular colours (and expensive, even on a Turbo S) which, short of black and Artic Silver is surely one of the more numerous examples. Aside from the occasional white or red, there are a few odd-ball colours (the light blues, metallic greens and strange brown and purple colours) and maybe a handful of paint to sample, but overall, the Turbo S almost always presents in one of the silvers or black.

Carrera GT

I had the same problem with another Turbo on eBay where the VIN was patently wrong (didn't start with WPOA...) and the first reply was "I'll fix it" and the second reply (from the same guy) was "oh, that's so people don't know my VIN and use it" ... use it for what?! To register with PCA?

Carrera GT

The ride height is the "correct" US "off road" height, with about three fingers between the top of the rubber and the bottom of the wheel arches -- ironically, it still tends to crunch the chin spoiler of the Aerokit II on any curb.

Gert

These items are available through Tequipment.
Check the Tequipment section in the PET and you'll find the side intakes for narrow and wide body including Turbo S

You are right about the difficulty to find TTS part#'s.

ksimpson

Carrera GT,

My car was originally from the UK and now in Ireland. I checked the options and there is nothing specific to the ducts only a code for the exclusive program. One of the UK listers confirmed that they were (an expensive) option back in '96 when the 4S was introduced.

My tale of woe regarding my car is documented here. However, glad to say that the dealer is footing most of the bill for the repairs.

https://rennlist.com/forums/showthre...threadid=10016

Carrera GT

Arrgh. Right, yes, I should have realised these were from the Tequipment stuff ... even though it has tantalising references to "Turbo S" for some shared parts, it doesn't show a part number where it has the Turbo S body part. Oh well.

Just as a matter of interest, what's the price on those stoneguard foils (in clear) ?

ZCAT3

Carrera GT - just thought I'd put in the correct link to California Motorsport where the local 993TT S is sitting: http://www.calmotorsport.com/ You listed an Impala seller by merely adding an "s" to the end. In any case, I guess 29K can be considered high miles for a Turbo S - which is another reason not to buy one (or at least pay a huge premium) unless you want to put it in a museum. I really do like the looks of the S, although the things I like the best are the tail and the side intakes. If those side intakes could be added aftermarket and made functional that would be a tempting "upgrade".

Autobahn

Tequipment 911 (Type 993) catalog 08/2001