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edc · 12-12-2013, 02:11 AM

Excluding labour you can get exhaust, manifolds, tb, intake, remap from circa £1,000 which is roughly USD$1,600 which gets you circa 25whp. That's what I did and most of my kit came off ebay.

JAAY · 12-12-2013, 04:36 AM

If you want sound than any eBay exhaust will do. Best bang for the buck is a set of 150 dollar eBay headers with no cats and set of good high flow cats with stock exhaust.

The French Dude · 12-12-2013, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by edc

Excluding labour you can get exhaust, manifolds, tb, intake, remap from circa £1,000 which is roughly USD$1,600 which gets you circa 25whp. That's what I did and most of my kit came off ebay.

Seems nice !
Could you explain what you did and which parts you used ?

Thank you

edc · 12-13-2013, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by The French Dude

Seems nice !
Could you explain what you did and which parts you used ?

Thank you

Summary here http://986forum.com/forums/performance-technical-chat/47555-tuned-modified-2000-boxster-s.html with a link to a more detailed thread in the first post.

I am doing the same again this time with a 550 Anniversary and the addition of replacement sports cats and perhaps a different silencer.

Aside from a bit more go the other benefit to me is a better sounding Boxster that sounds more like a sports car should.

Jake Raby · 12-13-2013, 04:26 AM

The sad part is most of these tunes reduce throttle response and torque as their tuners only look for peak HP gains, for advertisement.

We very seldom, if ever find any gains from any of this stuff on our engines, even the Stage I and most Stage II. In fact until we build one of our3.2 based 3.8L engines I don't even consider using any of these goods.

95% of what we build leaves here with stock intake, stock exhaust and a minimum of 40HP more output than stock, with even more torque, more throttle response with a broader power band.

Pretty much unless a car arrives with these "tuned" items, we don't use them. We don't need them and true development and application has proven this.

coreseller · 12-13-2013, 05:14 AM

The words "Porsche" and "Cheap" or "Reasonable" never seem to appear together very often. One of the options to have on a 993 are "Sport Seats" which have hardbacks, they command $5k to $10k a pair here, a well known vendor in Europe has some new OEM's for sale, only $20k:

Factory Sport Seats - Carnewal

If you want "Cheap" power, buy anything with a GM LS motor in it.