Cleaned up for the last drive before winter

 

This is scheduled for this weekend, makes me sad.

 

That's a cool interior! AND three pedals. Sweet ride.

 

Thank you sir! I wasn't sure how I felt about Terracotta interior but in person it's pretty awesome place to spend time in!

 

I have a similar, Terracotta/Black (dash top, doors) interior in my 2011 TTS Cab. I can concur, I love it.

 

 

 

Some interior shots of my 911R inspired two tone black/brown interior project partially complete.

Carrera white exterior
Black interior
C​​​​ocoa brown GT2 carbon folding buckets
Pepita inserts
991. 2 steering wheel

Next steps:
- carbon fiber outer door sill
- cocoa brown leather wrapped inner door sill
- cocoa brown armrest lid
- and thinking about some other little pieces to do in cocoa brown as well for a little more brown accent

More to come!

 

sheesh what a beauty

 

COBB Accessport; DSC Sport Controller; HRE FF01 wheels in GOLD RUSH Opaque; EUROPIPE Turbo Stage 2 exhaust; SUNCOAST Clear Side Markers; SUNCOAST Hood Protector; OEM Hood Struts; NUMERIC RACING Short Shifter (Full Kit); NUMERIC RACING Wheel Spacers 15mm (back) & 7mm (front); RENNLINE Radiator Protection Grill Screens; FULL BODY Paint Correction; FULL BODY PPF; BOSCH OEM wiper set

 

LOVE the gold! Tell us a little more about the Numeric shifter and cables. I've been thinking of this but not sure what the benefits are for Sunday driving. I have the factory short shift kit and its seems to shift fine but other say the Numeric is night & day difference.

 

....the 3rd (or last pic) in front of my twin garage shows the car BEFORE paint correction, PPF and Ceramic.

Also I had been considering dropping the car 2/3" (like most folks seem to do) along with Coilovers & bigger 20" HRE's .... but chose instead to retain the factory struts (my car only has 39k km) and go for 19" HRE's. Discussing these issues with Sharkey (Sharkwerks in LA) proved particularly helpful.

Why keep the stock suspension setup? I'm putting - shock horror - W I N T E R tyres on the factory OEM rims and use the car as a daily driver with some conditions: I live in Atlantic Canada & we've had snow 3 times already so far this winter - I do also own a full size Range Rover so if there's need to drive in the undriveable, Rangie, not Porkey, gets the job!

Plus, 20" wheels on these 997.2's look a bit too "rammed" in my opinion...

Lastly, outside of the obvious wheel change, I wanted to keep the car looking as original as possible. Stef & his brother at Europipe in Belgium make the best handmade exhausts in the business and my Stage 2 System uses modified OEM S/S outlet tips re-configured to receive their 3" pipes.... so from the back it looks unmodified and OEM.

Cheers, KvN

 

Many thanks Ryan.

My car was speccd' from the factory with OEM "Short Shift" but from all my research, the full Numeric kit (making sure to use their upgraded cables and NOT OEM) is widely reputed to be night & day better.

I opted to have my local P dealership do the instal as it's way above my skill set. When we got the factory OEM gate mechanism out and compared it to the billet aluminium from Numeric, it became instantly obvious why it was going to perform at another level. OEM is pressed polycarbonate/plastics and Numeric is all metal. And high end components and Cables; hand assembled.

In operation, it is noisy - the clicks and clunks of slots & gear engagements are much more pronounced but so is the tactile, "race car" feeling the shifter produces.

After 6 months of use, it seems like a no-brainer!

 

Cables aren't absolutely necessary but they are known to fail. My Numeric shifter never had the cables replaced in my C4S and it was fine. As far as the shifter itself it was like bolt-action and I had it on the shortest throw. I remember Rudy Mancinas telling me how much he loved it when I sold it to him and that he was going to put it in his 997 GT3. If I had a manual 997TT, I would've swapped out the stock plastic crap box for this first mod, no doubt... instead I got a slushbox Tiptronic S and had to swap out that God-awful steering wheel arrangement first thing. But to be clear, yes the shifter is worth every penny. Just be sure you know what position you want to have the shifter at as not everyone likes the shorter throw.

 

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