2017 porsche 911 engine install#
If you’re like me, however, you’ll only want to drive the car with the sport exhaust flaps open, or you’ll immediately order an aftermarket sport exhaust to install for permanent aural enhancement. The sound is assuredly enhanced when the PSE (Porsche Sport Exhaust) option box is ticked and the button is pressed. Where the last naturally aspirated Carrera sounded like a howling grizzly, this new car sounds like a bear whose hunger has been sated. You can tell that there is a deep underlying snarl to the exhaust note, something like an ursine growl obscured under a thick blanket. It still has a lot more character than your average sports car. That’s not to say this engine doesn’t sound good, mind you. It is quieter, it is more muffled, and it is certainly less aurally engaging. The new turbocharged 3-liter engine does sound different. Let’s begin by gathering around the elephant in the room, and we’ll discuss it for a minute before we move on. This new engine is Porsche’s biggest drivetrain change since the switch to watercooled back in the late 1990s. Does this new engine keep the Porsche faith, or is it as big a paradigm shift as people fear? Read on to find out. With only a couple dozen minutes of drive time, I can already tell that Porsche has got the formula right with the 991.2. The drive route ahead of me is probably the perfect place to explore the benefits of the new engine, as the switchback curves, altitude, and relatively low speeds all conspire to show off the turbocharged lump’s instant-on torque curve and additional shove. The interior is much the same, save for a larger PCM module screen in the center console, a new 918-inspired steering wheel, and a few other minor tweaks, this is definitely a dance with a familiar friend. With a turn of the key I light the fires and set off on the journey of a lifetime destination happiness.Īs I pulled out of the parking lot and began my ascent into the wooded hills of the NorCal morning, I felt that there were a whole lot of similarities between the outgoing 991.1 car and this new 991.2 Carrera.
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I’m leaving behind the real world and heading for paradise. This Porsche is more than a car, it is an escape pod. Perhaps, somewhat foolishly, Porsche places a set of keys to their new 2017 991.2 into my waiting hands. A steady westerly march toward the coast is calling to me, a hundred miles inland, and I must abide. The forested hills around me slowly exhale their cigarette-smoke misty gloom out to sea, and I feel myself want to follow along. As the pre-dawn shades of grey recede and are replaced with the colors of real life, sunrise paints the flanks of my steed a breathtaking blue. I greet the dawn as an old friend, offering to share my cup of coffee with the sun from the comfort of my Northern California hotel room.