I'll start by saying I've been a Porsche fanatic my whole life. Up until recently I've been playing a lot with VW/Audi cars and have spent a lot of time on those forums. I'm now in a position where I can finally cut my teeth on my first P-car. It was a toss up between a CS or a 996tt and i was having a hard time finding a reasonable 996 with the recent spikes in value. Of the few nice examples I found I was feeling guilty even thinking about driving them and as fate would have it, I found a great low mile Guards Red CS and jumped on it back in July and haven't looked back.

The car is an '06, three owner car with 28k milles, MT w/ black interior. I've been enjoying it since then and recently started getting the mod bug over the winter. The plans are to keep it mild with a new exhaust, minor suspension work, some new wheels and a couple basic cosmetic mods. The car is mostly a weekend toy with some nice weather trips to and from work. Looking forward to feedback and meeting some of the MA locals at some events this summer.

I've been reading a lot about SOUL performance exhausts over the past couple months and almost pulled the trigger on their competition exhaust and headers but really wanted the option for a valved exhaust which they didn't offer for the 987.1. After doing some research I found company called TopGear ( no affiliation with the TV show) based out of the U.K., and after doing my homework found that folks had great things to say about the quality. fitment and sound of the product. As a plus it also looked just like the SOUL system, and appeared to use the same parts, from the mufflers all the way down to the cast manifold flanges on the headers. So I pulled the trigger and had the system at my door in less than a week.















Ill take some install pics and end results once complete.

Finished up the install of the exhaust tonight.



And the the finished product. Exhaust sounds great and it's nice to be able to control how loud it is.




Also, picked up a set of these wheels that will be getting a makeover in the next couple days.

Thanks guys...

I started pulling apart the wheels and decided on colors. I'll be powder coating the hardware matte black, replacing the black lips with polished ones and powder coating the barrels black. I'm not sure on the color for the centers yet but I like the idea of an off silver/gold so I'll see what I've got.

I typically throw my bolts in my cheap toaster oven to coat them since it's quick and easy. I stuff them through cardboard and wrap the cardboard in aluminum foil to charge the


And the finished product...





Also got got some of the lips polished , and ready that I had hanging around in my collection.

wheels are done, final specs were 19x9 front and 19x11 rears with Michelin Pilot 4S.




The rear toe links also arrived so I can now go ahead with the pss9 coilovers install and hopefully get everything buttoned back up and aligned in the next week.