[jwade]

Do you get the infamous droning sound? No, not at all with the Tequipment PSE and Fabspeed bypass pipes.

Turbo chargers...superchargers...bla-bla-bla.....I wouldn't do it. Might be fun for a little while, but just too much long-term maintenance.

It's better to swap the engine in it's entirety if you want the best power as the only weak link in the car is not enough torque. More engine cures this as Jake Raby is proving with his Flat 6 innovations. It's expensive though at 15k minimum and like you said, you paid 13k for the car.

As far as exhaust / headers, I looked at Maxspeed too, but just made a judgement call on the Fabspeed pipes and quit there for now. They have a longer track record and aren't made in China.

Turbowerx Headers are the ticket and pretty nice value, but if I went that route, I'd want to reflash my DME with RoW software.

The reflash would elliminate the CEL, but you have to have the PST2 from Porsche to do this. Occaisonally, one will pop up on ebay as Porsche has phased them out, but they are still expensive. They usually come in the form of an IBM laptop with a serial connector.