I'm fabricating a new 3" X-pipe exhaust system. No cat's and no mufflers should be complete by mid January. I am looking or I think I'm looking for a Cobb tuner. Anyone have any experience or any ideas how to tune the car with the new exhaust? 997.1 Turbo; 8000 miles.

 

Lots of tuners out there, umw and fvd are great. Cobb is new on the scene, guys seem happy.

 

Add Markski to that list. He goes much further into the remap parameters than most, especially Cobb.

 

You can not tune your 997 with Cobb yourself anymore. You have to get it tuned by a Cobb authorized tuner.

 

The Cobb Accessport comes with multiple canned tunes (stages), that can address your exhaust changes. Dyno tuning, or other custom features need to be performed by a Cobb tuner, or you can buy the access tuner software and roll your own.

 

Cobb AccessPort comes with Stage 1 and 2. Basically an exhaust and maybe intercoolers. What I love about my Access port is I can do data logging and send to a Cobb tuner like SamboTT or others to Custom tune. I can upload those files on my AccessPort. In addition, you can also uninstall the Cobb software and resell the AP with the OTS maps

 

Thanks everyone for the information. I've been working with Kevin at Ultimate Motor Werks who is very knowledgeable in the Porsche turbo field. I like the Cobb; the owner can clear codes, pull and save past tunes, and install tunes from a developer, really a nice toy. However for 1800 you are just getting a standard tune, let’s say, for a 3” exhaust mod which is not a custom tune that fits the specifics on your car. Where as if I purchase a dataloger I can get a custom tune for my car for a lot less money but the draw back on that would be if the tuner you are working with goes away then you have lost that working relationship.

Lots to think about to make a sound decision for curtain and future mods. Thanks you!

 

You can also look into OpenFlash: http://www.openflashtablet.com/shop/...911-turbo-997/


Here you got OTS tunes like Cobb and you can actually tune yourself.