When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
8 years is an eternity for a battery in these cars. For whatever reason, they are extremely hard on batteries.
I am on my second replacement battery. I have owned my 997.2 since 2012 and it has 89k me on it. This last time I bought a Porsche AGM battery to see if it holds up any better.
I keep mine on a tender excessively because I am super worried about getting locked out of the car. It is silly and excessive but it keeps the battery super happy.
I used to only use tenders on cars if I did not drive them for a month or more.
Now, I just plug them in after a week and I noticed with a good tender, it extends the life of the battery.
Finally installed the buckets that I got a couple of years ago. Now need to decide what to do with the passenger side. Keep the same (alcantara sport seats), install bucket or revert to original comfort seat to make life easier on passengers.
Finally installed the buckets that I got a couple of years ago. Now need to decide what to do with the passenger side. Keep the same (alcantara sport seats), install bucket or revert to original comfort seat to make life easier on passengers.
Just another opinion. If that's what you want, just leave it like that. If you decide to sell the car though I would install the bucket on the passenger side as well. Looks a bit odd with different seats and could be a hard sell. Besides, another hard sell would probably be one bucket that you'll be left with.
For what it's worth, my wife loves the bucket on the passenger side of my car when she rides with me. She says "it feels like it hugs me" She's on the petite side though. I've heard of somewhat "oversized" people fitting just fine in the buckets but they're probably not a good fit for someone exceeding oversize.
I am not a fan of the silver dash console in the 997.1, but I don't really want to paint it so I tried a matte black carbon wrap. Just did the lower two units as I am thinking of replacing the PCM with an Android head. Better than silver but a little busy. I think it is going to come off.
I keep mine on a tender excessively because I am super worried about getting locked out of the car. It is silly and excessive but it keeps the battery super happy.
I used to only use tenders on cars if I did not drive them for a month or more.
Now, I just plug them in after a week and I noticed with a good tender, it extends the life of the battery.
I'm glad you posted this. I never put a Tender on my car because its a daily driver and my commute is long enough to fully charge the battery. BUT, after 4 months of working at home and rarely driving my car, your post is a great reminder that i should plug my 997 in occasionally now.
What's funny is that i have a routine for charging my old vehicles and lawn tractor so they're always ready to drive, and the 997 is in the same garage as three of those vehicles. But it hadn't occurred to me until today to put the Porsche into that rotation.
Continued with reassembly of the supercharger. Had to lower the engine to get enough space above the supercharger and inlet pipe to be able to connect the air hoses and tighten all the clamps. This is clearly a "10 lbs of stiff in a 5 lb bag" scenario. The more I learn about this R-Kompressor setup, the more impressed I am. With RUF engineering. They've tapped an oil line that connects to the top of the supercharger with a a very small hole in a banjo bolt so it fees oil to the supercharger bearing to prolong its life, and then there's a return fitting on the bottom that's tied into the custom metal oil filler neck assembly to return the oil to the sump.
This kit was clearly installed with the engine out of the car. Doing it this way is like trying to put a baby back into the womb LOL
Jack stands supporting engine carrier bracket while I lift the car using the lift, letting the rear of the engine drop down so I have some space above to put the supercharger and piping back in.
Had to remove the rear motor mounts to allow for enough articulation. New coolant reservoir pictured too.
Rear of supercharge has an inlet from the black square pipe where the throttle body will get reinstalled and an outlet that goes to a Y-pipe that feeds the custom cast intake manifolds with integrated intercoolers.
Used a boroscope camera to make sure the couplings were properly seated and the clamps in the right place on them as you can't see or feel some of them.
First owner bought it. I bought the car from the second owner. I'll be the 3rd and last owner, unless you count my son, who will one day inherit it.
The kit is so rare, I actually bought a complete spare a few years ago when one came up for sale that was removed when the guy blew the supercharger. I sent the supercharger back to Germany and had it rebuilt / refurbished in case I ever need to replace the one I have in the car.
Anything in a color in these photos is different from stock and part of the RUF R-Kompressor kit.
Here's the kit components. In addition, the compression is lowered, a DME from a TT is used instead so there is access to additional parameters to properly tune for forced induction.
Figured as much. Do you have a boost gauge? They advertise .5 bar (7.5psi), wondering if you actually see that?
I have one in the closet that I'll be hooking up at some point. It's an oled version that I'll tie in for boost and also so I can see AFR numbers on each bank.
The car is considerably faster and more powerful than my wife's S. With the intake and exhaust mods, I think I'm around 475 HP. She was going 107 the other day at full throttle trying to keep me from passing her, but that didn't work. Walked by like she was driving normally.
I have one in the closet that I'll be hooking up at some point. It's an oled version that I'll tie in for boost and also so I can see AFR numbers on each bank.
The car is considerably faster and more powerful than my wife's S. With the intake and exhaust mods, I think I'm around 475 HP. She was going 107 the other day at full throttle trying to keep me from passing her, but that didn't work. Walked by like she was driving normally.
09-03-2020, 09:48 PM
She's on the petite side though. I've heard of somewhat "oversized" people fitting just fine in the buckets but they're probably not a good fit for someone exceeding oversize.
