Its been awhile since we have done something really unique here at Vivid Racing, but that is all about to change. Vivid Racing has reconnected with TPC Racing to install and test one of their Porsche Cayman Turbo Kits. You might remember TPC forcing air on our Project 996 with a supercharger. For you race fans, TPC was also the 24hrRolex champion a couple years back. So why moving away from the supercharger and focusing on the turbo kits? Turbo kits are easier to build power, safer to tune, and simpler for installation. As you can see by the turbo kit contents, the car gets a new header, exhaust, air to water intercooler, and some simple hoses and fittings. Not bad for a bolt on 150 extra horsepower!

So our project begins here with a 2007 Cayman S 6speed. The car is modded with a Milltek exhaust, Milltek Headers, APR Flash, and IPD Plenum. All these mods, except the headers, will be removed. So as the car sits, we did a baseline dyno run on our Mustang AWD dyno. This could be played 2 ways... 1 is the baseline will be less then the gains quoted by TPC because of the power mods. 2 is this will show you what spending $5000 on bolt ons does compared to $9995 on a turbo kit! Our baseline dyno run on 91 octane was 257rwhp and 225 ft/lbs of torque. Since the Mustang dyno reads much lower then TPC's DynoJet, their stock Cayman S baseline was at 265rwhp comparatively.

Now that the immediate tests were done for a comparison, the installation will begin. The install is about 25-30 hours for the TPC kit. Once all the parts are bolted on, we will do a new dyno test. So stay tuned to our Porsche Cayman Turbo Kit Gallery Here for updated pictures. And check back to our Turbo Kit Project Here.

 

Made some headway with the installation. Had to start by gaining access to the motor. As always laying down work mats to protect the fender paint. The engine gets some changes with the intake, plenum, and hoses.






Now we started to mount up the turbo, header pipes, and exhaust pipes with wastegate. The parts are very nicely welded. I personally like how the existing headers are used and then come into 1 merge collector to the turbo. Kinda reminds me of the Subaru "Uppipe". The wastegate is super beefy and personally having external wastegates on my 996TT and 997TT, this will sound mean!







More updates to come so stay tuned to the official gallery here.

 

Nice. Let us know if you need some help getting that power to the ground.

 

Very cool. Subscribed and someone needs tires............

 

Looking forward to this.

Just a random question/ observation do the pipes sit lower then the under-exoskelton? Hard to tell from the parallax, I guess I am wondering if a lower Cayman would be hitting ground, raised expansion gaps much.

Here in PA we have pratically speed bumps on the highway where the trucks have caused a raised section in the center. Almost any lower car I drive over them leaves sparks unless you hit them just right.

The more successful installs and road mileage is making me lean towards getting an '07 S over an 09/10 and using the money saved to go FI!

 

Moving on with the project, we just got the meat and potatoes installed including the new injectors, air/water intercooler. exhaust muffler, silicone tube from the turbo compressor to intercooler, silicone tube to the intake. Coming up next will be the front center radiator which is what does the cooling for the intercooler. Check out the pics!

 

wow this is looking great. cant wait to see it finished and see some numbers.

 

Would you be justified in slapping a "Turbo S" badge on the back?

From that straight on pic, those pipes don't look as low as I thought (not as low as exhaust tips)... disregard my last inquiry.

 

Not my car but why not

as you can see from the video, they dont hang low, just a bad angle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYj9w...layer_embedded

 

Is their any sort of heat shield that keeps the Red Syclone Hot pipe off of the Manifold pipe??

Can't wait to see the progress of this kit.

 

Here is a little dyno test for ya Need to do a datalog and check the tune with TPC as the boost and power was low.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYivDQMXbkU

 

That would be a question for TPC

 

The silicone is reinforced and very strong... We have these things all over the world and have never had that issue. Working with silicone is much easier as it is pliable and easy to install, ship

 

Will be completing the after dyno today. Stay tuned.

 

This thing is gonna be sick!