Need more Oomph

While I don't doubt those guys' engineering abilities (the US tuning scene is something we can mostly dream of) you have to keep in mind that the cars are built for different conditions out there. I don't think you can sustain 260+ kph for *that* long out there on a road without getting shot at.

Strosek in Germany came to mind but they seem to be mostly doing cosmetics. I don't think that many 928s were tuned in Germany as there was always a lot more money in 911 tuning.

That said it may still be worth talking to Ruf, they maybe able to point you in the right direction. That said, the right direction may well consist of bolting turbochargers on...

The guys at Devek and even more at 928developments seem to know their stuff. The prepare and race Anderson and Kibort in their 928's. These machines are far from ridiculous between machinery costing 10 -20 times more.

They also do speedtrials and both have produced 928 running over 200 MPH while retaining the Stuttgart relyability.

The only thing -and I am inclined to 928developments- is that both are in California, USA which means an administratif headache to get the car there and back.

Strosek is indeed mostly optical, Jacquard in France too. They have some followers but I don't like big arches, big(ger) wings, ultrawide tires if it is for show.

The tuning of Porsche's is always pointed to 911 because apparently it's considered to be the only "real" Porsche. I am not overly addicted to other people's way of thinking and to me the front-engined Porsches are more interesting and on long distances far more easy to drive.

Turbochargers are the "easy" way of getting power if the place is available. On a 928 the required place isn't there. There were some tests done but to my knowledge no commercial available kit exists.

But even if one could fit one or 2 turbos in the 928, it would remain the same situation as for a supercharger: at our equivalent of MOT the car will fail. I want my GTS for the road, doing what it's made for: travelling as fast as possible without eating airline food. Thx for thinking along.

Tom De Moor

How long do you need the power burst for? Is it just to accelerate? What about fitting Nitrous Oxide? You could get a 250BHP boost when you wanted it and when you're not using it, it is just a normal engine with all the reliability and economy it had before.

LOL

Go on then, I'll bite, why is that funny?

I'm hoping the response is just 'Nitrous knackers your engine' - because that's always a funny one.

Without appropriate fueling and ignition Nitrous does knacker your engine.

Fraser

It probably isn't the reason I found it slightly funny, which was that Conor had missed the reason why TDM wanted more power.

cheers, clive

Without air in your tyres you'll knacker your wheels as well. Obviously if it's done wrong it'll break stuff...

Yea I breezed over that, I just assumed it was someone with no knowledge coming in to say "On the fast and the furious he makes a floor panel fall out and nearly blows the welds on the intake with NOS, so it's bad"

:-)

Plenty of knackered engines from bad NOS setup. Not so many knackered wheels from lack of air. Personally outside of drag racing I don't see much place for it. Especially in high speed tourers like Tom is after.

Fraser

Well no it is definately more the acceleration side of things :)

Like Burgerman says there isn't a better way to get a massive turbo on boost quickly.

Fraser

Obviously if

Aye. I always remember the advice from Burgerman's website. Rich and retarded. That's the key to running Nitrous.

-- "For want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died."

Exactly. How much NOS would you need to travel 880km? Or does Conor believe that once up to, say, 200mph, the OP could turn off the NOS and sustain that speed indefinitely? Then again, Conor holds some very unconventional beliefs about the relationship between power and terminal velocities...

Can you see that getting through one of there MOTs? I was thinking that Tom could fit it in a way that's easy to whip off then put back on but it's a lot of work (every year?).

Nitrous is not so easy to hide from the yearly "no modifications" inspection, and I gather from Tom's original post that the extra power is for sustained high speed cruising.