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Hey all, Im looking for a cayenne for my mom. I went to aristocrat yesterday to look while I was on my way to work and saw a dark olive green metallic base model for $48,000. Its a new 06 and has the preffered package and some other little odds and ends. It was stickered at 57 but Im thinking its just been on the lot a while and they want to sell it. (They also had a new cayman with the turbo wheels on it, looked sooooo good. And an 03 911 turbo for 73,000 with like 20,000 miles). Do you think we should get it or keep looking? She wants new but im trying to talk her into used, as in a 04. They just happen to have an 04 cayenne on the lot too... a turbo for 60K. I drove both the turbo and the base, while the turbo was fun fun fun, the base should be fine with my mom, im still trying to talk her into the turbo though. I need any advice that you owners of Cayennes can give me, thanks.

So whats the cost of boring out the engine to make lots of HP? Would it be at greater risk of breaking if done properly?

Ive always heard 15 minutes. So Id not want to risk paying lots of money to get the light deactivated.

I was one of the first people to buy the ebay one from a2rinc. Its a fine shifter and I did a write up of it somewhere. Basically its a B&M but not name brand. Kinda like the sams choice cola, good, but generic.

Id wait a day before putting the decals on. I left mine on jack stands for a day and put the decals on right before the wheels. The paint will be clean and ready then, not mushy. I wouldnt risk getting your fingerprint in the paint.

Heres an inside video. 1/8th open http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bPO868KT_M

The first drive by was half or full open, the second one (at the 1 min mark) was 1/8th open and what I consider to sound very good and still Porsche like. It exits out under the car.

Here is a drive by. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08-uX9z_Rg4 I will take an inside cabin video tomorrow, its not that bad at all at 1/8th open. You still get great sound and you get some resonance from 2-3 grand, but its quiet when cruising at those speeds. Above 3 grand and theres no resonance and little cabin noise besides the engine.

Ya, im not going for power, these cars are pretty much done as far as upgrading for power. You may pick up 10 HP after several mods, but nothing too impressive. Im getting the car dynoed in a couple weeks to get a base line and to see what difference the valves make, if any. But I love the sound, Its B.A. (you dane cook fans will get that one)

Done. It sounds amazing. Just fantastic. A real racecar sound. Heres some pics and video. I used my camera with the video function, so its not the best quality sound. I think the wind from the valves made it sound boomier than it is, you can tell that when the valves arent directing the air backwards its clearer. It sounds a lot better when your actually driving. I will get some flybys later. I prefer to only have the valve open about an 1/8th or 1/4, its plenty loud and you get a "tighter" sound. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ryr05thbvM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpXhUN6-vsk http://aycu16.webshots.com/image/7815/2004...62479657_rs.jpg http://aycu32.webshots.com/image/7351/2004...81596698_rs.jpg http://aycu06.webshots.com/image/7165/2004...91526492_rs.jpg http://aycu17.webshots.com/image/7096/2004...78225640_rs.jpg http://aycu30.webshots.com/image/8749/2004...72633378_rs.jpg http://aycu14.webshots.com/image/6533/2004...49717705_rs.jpg http://aycu03.webshots.com/image/8922/2004...02544669_rs.jpg http://aycu10.webshots.com/image/8089/2004...78184603_rs.jpg

I finished installing everything, except the welding of the valves. What I did was take all of the trunk carpet out, everything. Its pretty simple, no biggie. Then you just lift up on the O2 sensor grommets (they are only in there by friction fit), and you get underneath the car and push the wire through where the O2 sensor wire goes (not hard at all, its really close and the opening is big, but not big enough to fit the big end through). Then you pull like crazy on the gigantic grommet that leads torward the engine, ok, your done with the trunk for now. Put your car in service mode (super easy), and if you want, you can use a grabber or screwdriver to push the wires through to the engine bay, I waited a couple steps though. Next, you undo 4 plastic "nuts" that hold the carpet on the firewall and take the carpet out. Undo 9 bolts and take the metal sheild off. Now take a chisel and punch a slit into the grommet that leads into the cabin (about a half inch will do). This is when I pushed the wires though into the engine bay. I put some heat sheilding over the wires just in case (they run directly the same path as the shifter cables) and pushed the wires through the slit in the grommet ( felt like giving birth to a plug, its pretty tight, but I could have made the slit bigger). Pull all your extra cable (exept what you need to reach the valves) and begin to slide it underneath the console. You need to push kinda hard to get it to be under there. Run it all the way to the bins (you will have very little cable left, seriously, just enough to reach the button). Now you can start on the switch (I used the switch it came with, but I might update to a porsche switch to go in the center console by the ashtray, thatd be sweet), I put my switch in the batwing. You need to dremel your way very carefully, it took me a while to get it right. The way the switch is, you need to remove all the connectors that were in the switch to get it in the hole you cut. So remember where the wires went! Once you get your switch to fit pop it in and reconnect the wires. I used inline wire taps to get power from the cigarette lighter. I had to remove my cd player because I left my tools at college (my torx bits), if you DO have torx bits, the 100% easier way to do it would be to undo the 4 torx screws holding the enitre assembly in place (take off the cover to the side, they hold the lock button, ect..., and you will see 4 screws, once they are out you can take out the entire thing), then just run the wires from the cig lighter down the back of the console and pull it through where the bat wing went. Use butt connecter to connect it to the switch and push it all back into the dash, and you are good to go. Put everything back together (except the trunk carpet, you want the muffler guy to be able to get how much cable he needs). I pulled the wire up to the O2 sensor grommet so it will not be in the way when I drive to the shop tomorrow. I will take pictures of the install and some sound clips and video. I just need to figure out how I can upload them so you guys can see it.

Hey guys, I just bought these electric bypass valves and will be doing a write up along with dyno tests over the next couple weeks. I bought the valves and will have them installed within a week or two. I contacted PorscheDoc and got the low down on doing some dyno runs. So everything is falling into place. I bought dual 2 inch valves from Charles (http://www.badlanzhpe.com/index.html) and they are the best value out there if you want sound and maybe some top end (we will find out when I dyno them). I spent a total of $270 and that is a drop in the bucket compared to a $1000 muffler, and it will be louder and resonance free... if I want it to be. Any feedback will helpful. Let me know what you think. Expect Updates!

How much are you gonna get the turbo for? It would be like the 4S (AWD) but with more power.

Nice job, but I would get them rebalanced now. Painting adds weight and it could throw things off a little bit.

Mines always on too. (99 BTW). In my old car, I went and bought a cig lighter from walmart, and spliced it with the factory cig lighter (had 2 cig lighters) and kept this one inside the console and just plugged what I needed into it (iPod power at the time). I also set a switch inline so I could turn that cig lighter on and off due to power was always hot. This was an awesome setup and only cost like 5 bucks.

I bought my 1 owner, all original paint 99 Boxster at a very good price. Good deals are out there, you just have to look.

Get a GT3 bumper, they are the most sought after. (aerokit II)

There is no paint code, just use wurth silver paint. Google it and you will have to buy a spray can of it. Its the same color as all OEM wheel paint.