Topic: Finally Bought a Porsche 911/993 Turbo

[KJetron]

Been away for a while again
Anyone who rememebers me-might rememeber
I always said I'd do it and I finally did!

I bought a 1995 Porsche 911/(993 shape) Turbo.
450 Bhp, twin K16 turbos, 4 wheel drive, 80% to the rear wheels, 6 speed box, last of the air cooled "true 911s".

First Impressions, the steering is much much more direct then my 928, and it is so so so fast, 0-60 mph in 3.7 secs!
So my G force when you accelerate- you really have to concentrate and hand on and braking is like hitting a brick wall!. Only problem is you hardly use a tenth of its ability on the roads!.

I'm even getting used to its flat six meaty/screamy noise! Sounds like a wild viscious animal when it gets going, quite different to the usual V8 bellow!
 

[James_Smith]

Quote:
Been away for a while again
Anyone who rememebers me-might rememeber
I always said I'd do it and I finally did!

I bought a 1995 Porsche 911/(993 shape) Turbo.
450 Bhp, twin K16 turbos, 4 wheel drive, 80% to the rear wheels, 6 speed box, last of the air cooled "true 911s".

First Impressions, the steering is much much more direct then my 928, and it is so so so fast, 0-60 mph in 3.7 secs!
So my G force when you accelerate- you really have to concentrate and hand on and braking is like hitting a brick wall!. Only problem is you hardly use a tenth of its ability on the roads!.

I'm even getting used to its flat six meaty/screamy noise! Sounds like a wild viscious animal when it gets going, quite different to the usual V8 bellow!
 

Hey mate! Hope you've been keeping well! Glad to hear you finally got a 911 Turbo  Air-cooled flat-sixes sound incredible, don't they?

Hope you're going to stay out of trouble on the roads.....

[JMM]

I remember you Kjet! Glad to see that you got the car you always wanted! You mean that you Brits are not like the Germans? You guys have speed limits on your highways?

Be sure to take a pic when you are done restoring it, if it is not new...   Soon I'll be working on my sis's and brother in law's 69 Camaro, 1 owner baby! No more 327, it will have a 383 stroker aluminum block with aluminum heads, that way no tailspin on the turns, cast iron and steel is far too heavy for the classic muscle cars, IMO...  

[Bonk]

There is absolutely nothing like the absolute freedom of...






























No car at all.

[Captain Krenn]

Nice!

Always thought I'd like to have a porsche

Just don't think I could afford to drive and up keep it.  

My mechanical skills are seriously underdeveloped.

 

[JMM]

Krenn, I used to think the same until I enrolled at Austin Community College's auto tech program, in two years plus OJT I was rocking and rolling. It does take an avg of ten to twelve years to achieve master tech level though (Avg income a year for a master tech? 60-100k depending on where you work and where you live!).

Just don't throw a carb at me, I never fooled with them as it is ancient technology, computers and fuel injection are the standard of today's vehicles, and now we enter hybrid technology. Funny how many auto techs know very little about electronics and electricity. It is why the degree plans are changing nowadays, an auto tech MUST know those two things, it's not just nuts and bolts and gasoline engines anymore.  

[JMM]

In case you peeps wonder about Kjet's nick, it is a fuel injection system developed by Bosche. Damn good one too, even though it's a bit complicated system if you never tinkered with one before.  

Thanks for bringing back college textbook memories KJet.

[KJetron]

JMM, I'm a self confessed car-a-holic!
I design and develop Jaguars for a living and then come home to my "projects".
I love them all and have owned cars from American Ponies to Italian.
This Porsche is quite clean and has only 44000 miles on the clock.
However I'm currently restoring my !970s BMW 3 series, which is the first car I ever bought when I was 17 way back in 1990! I'm dropping an M3 inspired 3.1 litre 2 valve engine into it. I'll be designing the cams, intake system and exhausting myself. Now I've done the Porsche thing, my funds get diverted to this! The engine will consist of an amalgam of different BMW parts and custom made parts with NOISE and mechnical simplicity almost as important as output. For the Old BMW cognoscenti it will have a euro M3 crank and rods-that will allow it to rev to close to 8000 rpm, forged pistons, port throttles and piston cooling jets from the M3 motor too, but based around the 2 valve "M20" block-with large valves squeezed in but STILL running K Jetronic ! The cam will be a 296 duration of my own design, using a revolutionary trick I picked up- of sustained entrainment velocities to boost valve lift! I doubt it will make more then about 250 Bhp, but should sound ALOT better then modern stiffled engines!

Ah yes, you recognised my handle! K-Jetronic or CIS as you might call it over there is a great efficient and simple fuel injection system-that's pure mechanical and hydraulic.

[KJetron]

Been away for a while again
Anyone who rememebers me-might rememeber
I always said I'd do it and I finally did!

I bought a 1995 Porsche 911/(993 shape) Turbo.
450 Bhp, twin K16 turbos, 4 wheel drive, 80% to the rear wheels, 6 speed box, last of the air cooled "true 911s".

First Impressions, the steering is much much more direct then my 928, and it is so so so fast, 0-60 mph in 3.7 secs!
So my G force when you accelerate- you really have to concentrate and hand on and braking is like hitting a brick wall!. Only problem is you hardly use a tenth of its ability on the roads!.

I'm even getting used to its flat six meaty/screamy noise! Sounds like a wild viscious animal when it gets going, quite different to the usual V8 bellow!
 

[James_Smith]

Quote:
Been away for a while again
Anyone who rememebers me-might rememeber
I always said I'd do it and I finally did!

I bought a 1995 Porsche 911/(993 shape) Turbo.
450 Bhp, twin K16 turbos, 4 wheel drive, 80% to the rear wheels, 6 speed box, last of the air cooled "true 911s".

First Impressions, the steering is much much more direct then my 928, and it is so so so fast, 0-60 mph in 3.7 secs!
So my G force when you accelerate- you really have to concentrate and hand on and braking is like hitting a brick wall!. Only problem is you hardly use a tenth of its ability on the roads!.

I'm even getting used to its flat six meaty/screamy noise! Sounds like a wild viscious animal when it gets going, quite different to the usual V8 bellow!
 

Hey mate! Hope you've been keeping well! Glad to hear you finally got a 911 Turbo  Air-cooled flat-sixes sound incredible, don't they?

Hope you're going to stay out of trouble on the roads.....

[JMM]

I remember you Kjet! Glad to see that you got the car you always wanted! You mean that you Brits are not like the Germans? You guys have speed limits on your highways?

Be sure to take a pic when you are done restoring it, if it is not new...   Soon I'll be working on my sis's and brother in law's 69 Camaro, 1 owner baby! No more 327, it will have a 383 stroker aluminum block with aluminum heads, that way no tailspin on the turns, cast iron and steel is far too heavy for the classic muscle cars, IMO...  

[Bonk]

There is absolutely nothing like the absolute freedom of...






























No car at all.

[Captain Krenn]

Nice!

Always thought I'd like to have a porsche

Just don't think I could afford to drive and up keep it.  

My mechanical skills are seriously underdeveloped.

 

[JMM]

Krenn, I used to think the same until I enrolled at Austin Community College's auto tech program, in two years plus OJT I was rocking and rolling. It does take an avg of ten to twelve years to achieve master tech level though (Avg income a year for a master tech? 60-100k depending on where you work and where you live!).

Just don't throw a carb at me, I never fooled with them as it is ancient technology, computers and fuel injection are the standard of today's vehicles, and now we enter hybrid technology. Funny how many auto techs know very little about electronics and electricity. It is why the degree plans are changing nowadays, an auto tech MUST know those two things, it's not just nuts and bolts and gasoline engines anymore.  

[JMM]

In case you peeps wonder about Kjet's nick, it is a fuel injection system developed by Bosche. Damn good one too, even though it's a bit complicated system if you never tinkered with one before.  

Thanks for bringing back college textbook memories KJet.

[KJetron]

JMM, I'm a self confessed car-a-holic!
I design and develop Jaguars for a living and then come home to my "projects".
I love them all and have owned cars from American Ponies to Italian.
This Porsche is quite clean and has only 44000 miles on the clock.
However I'm currently restoring my !970s BMW 3 series, which is the first car I ever bought when I was 17 way back in 1990! I'm dropping an M3 inspired 3.1 litre 2 valve engine into it. I'll be designing the cams, intake system and exhausting myself. Now I've done the Porsche thing, my funds get diverted to this! The engine will consist of an amalgam of different BMW parts and custom made parts with NOISE and mechnical simplicity almost as important as output. For the Old BMW cognoscenti it will have a euro M3 crank and rods-that will allow it to rev to close to 8000 rpm, forged pistons, port throttles and piston cooling jets from the M3 motor too, but based around the 2 valve "M20" block-with large valves squeezed in but STILL running K Jetronic ! The cam will be a 296 duration of my own design, using a revolutionary trick I picked up- of sustained entrainment velocities to boost valve lift! I doubt it will make more then about 250 Bhp, but should sound ALOT better then modern stiffled engines!

Ah yes, you recognised my handle! K-Jetronic or CIS as you might call it over there is a great efficient and simple fuel injection system-that's pure mechanical and hydraulic.

[KJetron]

Been away for a while again
Anyone who rememebers me-might rememeber
I always said I'd do it and I finally did!

I bought a 1995 Porsche 911/(993 shape) Turbo.
450 Bhp, twin K16 turbos, 4 wheel drive, 80% to the rear wheels, 6 speed box, last of the air cooled "true 911s".

First Impressions, the steering is much much more direct then my 928, and it is so so so fast, 0-60 mph in 3.7 secs!
So my G force when you accelerate- you really have to concentrate and hand on and braking is like hitting a brick wall!. Only problem is you hardly use a tenth of its ability on the roads!.

I'm even getting used to its flat six meaty/screamy noise! Sounds like a wild viscious animal when it gets going, quite different to the usual V8 bellow!
 

[James_Smith]

Quote:
Been away for a while again
Anyone who rememebers me-might rememeber
I always said I'd do it and I finally did!

I bought a 1995 Porsche 911/(993 shape) Turbo.
450 Bhp, twin K16 turbos, 4 wheel drive, 80% to the rear wheels, 6 speed box, last of the air cooled "true 911s".

First Impressions, the steering is much much more direct then my 928, and it is so so so fast, 0-60 mph in 3.7 secs!
So my G force when you accelerate- you really have to concentrate and hand on and braking is like hitting a brick wall!. Only problem is you hardly use a tenth of its ability on the roads!.

I'm even getting used to its flat six meaty/screamy noise! Sounds like a wild viscious animal when it gets going, quite different to the usual V8 bellow!
 

Hey mate! Hope you've been keeping well! Glad to hear you finally got a 911 Turbo  Air-cooled flat-sixes sound incredible, don't they?

Hope you're going to stay out of trouble on the roads.....

[JMM]

I remember you Kjet! Glad to see that you got the car you always wanted! You mean that you Brits are not like the Germans? You guys have speed limits on your highways?

Be sure to take a pic when you are done restoring it, if it is not new...   Soon I'll be working on my sis's and brother in law's 69 Camaro, 1 owner baby! No more 327, it will have a 383 stroker aluminum block with aluminum heads, that way no tailspin on the turns, cast iron and steel is far too heavy for the classic muscle cars, IMO...  

[Bonk]

There is absolutely nothing like the absolute freedom of...






























No car at all.

[Captain Krenn]

Nice!

Always thought I'd like to have a porsche

Just don't think I could afford to drive and up keep it.  

My mechanical skills are seriously underdeveloped.

 

[JMM]

Krenn, I used to think the same until I enrolled at Austin Community College's auto tech program, in two years plus OJT I was rocking and rolling. It does take an avg of ten to twelve years to achieve master tech level though (Avg income a year for a master tech? 60-100k depending on where you work and where you live!).

Just don't throw a carb at me, I never fooled with them as it is ancient technology, computers and fuel injection are the standard of today's vehicles, and now we enter hybrid technology. Funny how many auto techs know very little about electronics and electricity. It is why the degree plans are changing nowadays, an auto tech MUST know those two things, it's not just nuts and bolts and gasoline engines anymore.  

[JMM]

In case you peeps wonder about Kjet's nick, it is a fuel injection system developed by Bosche. Damn good one too, even though it's a bit complicated system if you never tinkered with one before.  

Thanks for bringing back college textbook memories KJet.

[KJetron]

JMM, I'm a self confessed car-a-holic!
I design and develop Jaguars for a living and then come home to my "projects".
I love them all and have owned cars from American Ponies to Italian.
This Porsche is quite clean and has only 44000 miles on the clock.
However I'm currently restoring my !970s BMW 3 series, which is the first car I ever bought when I was 17 way back in 1990! I'm dropping an M3 inspired 3.1 litre 2 valve engine into it. I'll be designing the cams, intake system and exhausting myself. Now I've done the Porsche thing, my funds get diverted to this! The engine will consist of an amalgam of different BMW parts and custom made parts with NOISE and mechnical simplicity almost as important as output. For the Old BMW cognoscenti it will have a euro M3 crank and rods-that will allow it to rev to close to 8000 rpm, forged pistons, port throttles and piston cooling jets from the M3 motor too, but based around the 2 valve "M20" block-with large valves squeezed in but STILL running K Jetronic ! The cam will be a 296 duration of my own design, using a revolutionary trick I picked up- of sustained entrainment velocities to boost valve lift! I doubt it will make more then about 250 Bhp, but should sound ALOT better then modern stiffled engines!

Ah yes, you recognised my handle! K-Jetronic or CIS as you might call it over there is a great efficient and simple fuel injection system-that's pure mechanical and hydraulic.