Do you guys know of any performance shop in town thats good in porting manifolds?

 

this was the 5 speed. the MR won't be on the lot until next month sometime.

 

Sounds like a plan to me. Aren't parts for the porsche REALLY expensive though? I mean my friend was looking at an exhaust for his e46 M3 and it was going for around 1200+ depending on brand and such.

 

Thats what i thought. Thanks for the clarification.

 

come on Jun you know that Allen can do that for you or get it done.

 

Ok evo mis-adventure in So Cal. I knew that my front left strut was on the way out so I called up Robispec since I'm down here.. I make the trip out to his place..We take off the fronts and rears...yup all blown to CR@P! he compresses one and the damn strut does not reboud.. SO on goes a Robispec basic kit +. The plus is the cusco camber plates and adjustable end links. Had to get new end links due to the stockers being so rusted they would not come out..he had to cut them off!!! So Thanks Robi for the invitation to you home and the tour of the Candy store!!!hahah
Now on to the setup review..for using a set of stock JDM 9 struts and his basic package with a few add on out of parts being too worn to be safe. The car is Carzy in turns...the damn thing just wants to turn more and more...harder and faster..A nice very tight freeway on ramp loop near his house (think 395 to 80 only much tighter and with a slight bank) the car was holding like I had glue on the rubber. Its like having a set of well adjusted coilovers with an almost stock 9 MR ride.
Thanks again Robi...have a good trip to Florida

 

You know, OEM Porsche parts really aren't any more expensive than any other car; It's when you start buying aftermarket that the price jumps up (labor cost is a different story; spark plug change $690 (drop engine). For example; when I worked for Porsche Cars North America here in Reno I had access to all the parts pricing. At the time my wife was driving a Saturn and whenever it would have a problem I would compare the equivalent Porsche part price to the Saturn part price. I was suprised that quite a few times odd little stuff, like window switches and knobs, etc, cost more from Saturn than they did from Porsche. The engine stuff cost a little more on the Porsche but not by a huge margin either, I can get a Porsche clutch for cheaper than a Evo clutch. But when you're talking aftermarket parts...look out, you get raped. I guess they figure if you can afford the car you can afford to pay more for the tuner parts; it's not like they're engineered any better for a Porsche than say an Evo. Another example; full titanium JIC Magic exhaust for the Evo, I paid $1800; same full titanium JIC Magic exhaust (different design of course, more bends) for the Porsche? $7,000. One area that is more expensive is fluids. Porsche just can't use normal coolant or hydraulic fluid, etc it has to be Porsche coolant that will supposedly last till the next Ice age, and it uses "Pentosin" hydraulic fluids which
is a euro thing, and it uses a 0W-40/50 engine oil, which is another Euro thing. So you buy a bottle of coolant and a small can of Pentosin CHF fluid and you're looking at $75....haha (luckily you may only use the stuff every 5 or 6 years).

But I can bet that the GT-R with all of it's trickery isn't going to be cheap to work on either, especially with the tolerances that it's hand built engine has. Supposedly Nissan is going to have to open up special service centers just for the GT-R. And rumor has it (some Nissan people that I've spoken with) that Nissan is trying to keep the aftermarket stuff as close to NISMO as possible. They say the ECU is going to be a ***** to crack, and they'll know if the car has been tampered with. So you'd have to replace the ECU to get anything out of it, but with all of it's HICAS and AWD program systems being built into the ECU, good luck with that. Plus the fact that it now has a aluminum V-6 which isn't the best for tuning we all know, unless you do some major engine mods; they should of stuck with the inline configuration. Will be interesting to see how it all turns out once they're out and in public hands.

 

Send it off to Cosworth in Cali. they do some wicked Evo work.

 

I didnt know that allan ports coz i think jermey sent his to PPI but thats a while back.I will swing by the shop and talk to him.Thanks

 

can also buy them already ported for about 200 bucks.....from ebay tho....

 

Is it gasket matched?

 

i donno...they dont say..so probly not.....here's a link.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Muse-...spagenameZWDVW

 

Thanks i will check it out.Did you get your TC fixed?

 

no not yet..im waiting for summer cause i dont have another car...its too cold to ride my bike to work....hopefully by that time its still repairable...the whine is getting louder! hehehhe...i might end up needing to buy a new one...that would suck., i guess i'll find out when i send it to shep.

 

Its weird that your TC is going out already.So you're not going to take it to allison for warranty?