What happened to the guy who recently supercharged his engine?
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I asked my mechanic about supercharging and he categorically did not recommend it, in fact he said and I quote "If it wasn't installed by the factory and you don't change a myriad of other components, you are looking at Big Trouble" and interestingly enough my friend had a centrifugal supercharger on his early 90's 911 and it was horrible. It had a huge and totally unpredictable lag which propelled the thing like a bottle rocket, you just held on and prayed, It was great for drag racing but little else. I missed a gear and it revved to about 20,000 rpm (Ok I'm exaggerating) but it was a sickening sound and feeling Not Fun!
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It would probably be easier and cheaper to just buy a 996 turbo.
But as a counterpoint, it is rare for me to think "Boy, I wish I was hurtling down the highway faster than my current car is capable of."
But as a counterpoint, it is rare for me to think "Boy, I wish I was hurtling down the highway faster than my current car is capable of."
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If I could wave a magic wand and turn my C2 into a TT, I'd do it*. But there simply isn't any real-world (non-track) situation in which the existing engine will not allow the C2 to make any rational driver completely happy.
*Actually, if this happened, I'd probably sell or store the TT and buy another 996 - it being a better daily driver (IMO).
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They usually don't report back after they blow their motors...
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Originally Posted by Sula
But there simply isn't any real-world (non-track) situation in which the existing engine will not allow the C2 to make any rational driver completely happy.
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Regardless if it was not the right thing to do or better to just buy a TT, I appreciated his ability to try something on his own and the engineering behind it.
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Yes, to all of us around the royal 996 table, he was the proverbial cup-bearer.