Nice! We need to talk about the ducts. Glad you got everything sorted out!

I definitely would be at your mercy on this one if this happened to me!

 

The ducts will be in for you next week...

 

Awesome! That is definitely a setup you can be confident with. Time to hit the track.

 

Nice work as usual. Glad all is well

 

Thanks Sam. Car is back together and ready for track duty. Hope all is well on your end...

 

Cheers. Had some clients from AUS here and I took them to Willow Springs track. man i miss it. Been in family making mode. Soon.

Have fun

 

New hubs finally are taking shape. These are being machined out of 300M which is an extraordinary high strength vacuum arc re-melt steel, the same thing used to make landing gear components for aircraft. Those will provide a tremendous strength improvement over the factory die cast hubs. I addition to making these out of 300M, we were able to slightly increase the radius of the hub at the bearing race. This will further add strength as there will be more "meat" in the failure area. Should have the finished product in about two weeks...

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Pretty slick! There were some upgraded units being made by a company(can't recall who). Dis you happen to look into aftermarket options already available?

 

I'm not aware of anyone offering aftermarket hubs.

 

Nice pieces - so the 997 cup hubs will fit our cars but they are center lock? and they are stronger? also what do you think yours are going to cost?
Thanks

 

Yes, the 997 hubs are a direct fit. They may actually be a superseded part number for our cars now. I'd have to check PET. The 300M hubs are $4K for the pair. Price would fall probably in the $2600-$3000 per pair with a larger production run of 3-5 sets. Yes, that still sounds expensive but the amount of carnage that happens when the hub breaks is much more expensive than the set of these hubs. I've been down that road before, twice...

 

Finally picked up the rear 300M hubs today... I have to say they exceed my expectations. These are forged out of 300M (Vacuum remelt steel), heat and cryo treated. Based on the metallurgical assessment, these are calculated to be close to 200% stronger that the OEM hubs. We ended up making two pairs to defray the development cost so I do have an extra pair available if any hardcore track guy is interested. On the stock hubs I've been averaging 2000 track miles between failure$ so the OEMs are an annual replacement for those tracking hard averaging 20-25 days per year. If you are putting in a lot of track miles on slicks, these will provided peace of mind. The hubs will fit the rear of any 5 lug 996/997TT, 996/997GT2/3. They are not cheap at $1300 each but they are the last hubs you'll need to buy..

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Those look like art!!

 

Thanks. They really are jewelry. I almost don't wanna put them on the car..

 

Just know that if any car beside the turbo, C4S or GT2/3 buy these hubs, the part that goes into the wheel bearing will be too long. The regular 996 and boxsters use smaller bearings.