FYI, Boxster Turbo's.

[thstone]

Does anyone on the forum have an aftermarket turbo installed? I'd love to hear about their experience.

[ProjectM96]

I'm sure someone has it either here or at pelicanparts, but only 4-5psi boost. Any higher and engine would blow since it is high compression.

A guy on cardomain has one. Red Boxster S 986 Turbo making well over 300HP at the wheels.

[Johnny Danger]

IMA Motorsport in Virginia claims to have developed a well designed twin turbo system, albeit a very expensive one, for 987 platform cars . I spoke with them about a year regarding a 986 application (more out of curiosity than anything). It was an interesting conversation to say the least. Here's a link to an ongoing thread about their system on
6Speed :

Twin turbo kit for cayman coming soon - 6speedonline.com Forums

[Topless]

Originally Posted by thstone

Does anyone on the forum have an aftermarket turbo installed? I'd love to hear about their experience.

Gary from Baton Rouge has a turbo 2.5l car with intercooler and last I heard he logged 200k miles on that original motor so he must have done it really well. About 5 years ago there were a bunch on the west coast but all ended with connecting rods sticking out of awkward places

PK2 has a supercharged 2.5L in Orange county that has survived well but he understands it's limitations and pushes it in small doses. Neither of these guys are track rats that push their cars to the limit during 5-25 minute track sessions/day.

After looking hard at this over the years and considering my driving style I will choose displacement over intake boost when the time comes. BYprodriver's 3.6L build looks interesting enough.

[BYprodriver]

Originally Posted by Topless

Gary from Baton Rouge has a turbo 2.5l car with intercooler and last I heard he logged 200k miles on that original motor so he must have done it really well. About 5 years ago there were a bunch on the west coast but all ended with connecting rods sticking out of awkward places

PK2 has a supercharged 2.5L in Orange county that has survived well but he understands it's limitations and pushes it in small doses. Neither of these guys are track rats that push their cars to the limit during 5-25 minute track sessions/day.

After looking hard at this over the years and considering my driving style I will choose displacement over intake boost when the time comes. BYprodriver's 3.6L build looks interesting enough.

"There is no replacement for displacement" I'll be at the PCA OCR autoX May 20th if you want to checkout the net results.