Available immediately.

 

Looks like you better get your appointment scheduled!

 

Rick, are there any build options for a 997.1? Also do you guys do air-cooled builds?

 

Currently not offering and services for the .1 cars or air cooled.

 

I recently stumbled on this 4.5L Spyder Short. This build seems to have a different/higher pitch compared to the others I've heard online that have a lower tone and sound more guttural.


Rick, do you know which setup is on this car to give it this higher-pitched tone? This one sounds amazing.

 

The car had Rick's headers + Soul resonated Race exhaust at that time.

Now running same headers with JCR resonated Ti and its pretty wild.

 

@JAhmed Thanks for the info. Is she yours?

I would have thought a race exhaust would lead to louder/raspier sound, but in that clip it sounds more 'refined'. Are they any more clips of this particular setup (or others with Rick's headers + Soul's race exhaust)?

 

Well, my 981 GT4 is in Rick's shop now being transformed. I went 'Full Monte' including gearing and LSD. I'm interested in hearing from California owners about the fuel they use. I'm out on the track 3 to 6 days every month, otherwise I only use the car for 'spirited driving' on the Mountain Roads here in the SF Bay Area. I have access to 100 octane fuel at a station 10 miles away and at Laguan Seca and Sears Point. (There used to be a source in my neighborhood, but they switched that 'tank' to diesel.) I've heard that the engine will preform well on 91 octane too.
I had an idea that I could buy a second Cobb Accessport and store a 91 octane tune there so I could use either type of gas depending on the situation.
My car is due back in San Jose California from Nyack around the end of September. I'm scheduled to drive Laguan Seca October 26-27. (Actually, I'll be at Laguna Sept 7th, Sept 21-22 and Oct 5th, but I'll have to drive my 981 GTS 3.4 for those days while I 'run in' the new engine.)
Pictured below is the GT4 at Laguna during a 3 day PCA event last September. The day after the photo was taken the Variocam assembly disassembled itself when the aluminum bolts sheared. I waited 7 months for repair. Shortly after that repaired was complete, a 'mystery' chunk of plastic fouled a timing chain and destroyed the freshly repaired engine. Rick sourced me a low mileage used motor as the 'core' for my 4.5. Onward and upward.

 

You don't need a separate Accessport for a different tune; multiple tunes are stored on a single AP and you connect it to the car to swap between them. Flashing to a different tune is a 5 minute job.

 

Great! I have owned the Cobb since before I acquired the GT4. I used it on my 981 3.4. And I have used in on my GT4 3.8. I found it very easy to use. I did not know if I could store more than one 'custom tune'
Thanks!

 

Hey Rick,
Roughly how many 718 Spyders have you done the 4.5L conversion on?

I miss my 981 4.5L GT4 and want to start stalking some of your more recent conversions. Thank you.

 

Any 4.5 cars coming up for sale? I am interested in purchasing.

 

This auction just went live today https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...cayman-gt4-12/

 

I absolutely love my DeMan 4.5 Spyder, but have something I would like to do with cash if I sold it... So I would consider it. Just picked it up from service yesterday and a clean bill of health!

16 Spyder, 51.5k Miles (DeMan goodness at 44k miles). There have been lots of additions since my ownership.

 

Thanks! Looking for a manual spec, otherwise would be all over this.