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The king of Porsche modifiers (in the authors opinion!), RUF and the company's interpretation of the ultimate 964, a narrow body Carrera 4 or 2 modified into a fire breathing turbo, model designation RCT.
MODIFICATIONS
As with all 911's, the Porsche 964 is easily modified to provide additional handling and performance. It should be noted that, as with any automobile manufacturer, Porsche attempts to build automobiles that will be accepted by a majority of people as well as meet strict governmental and environmental regulations. As such, compromises will always be made, and it will always be possible to extract more out of almost any automobile, the 964 not excluded.
Every car enthusiasts (or is that hot rodders?) dream is to customise his ride, to make his car the fastest on the block (we are of course not talking about the true collectors who pride originality). Indeed, given the relatively common nature of the 964, this is one of the best Porsche's to modify given they are not extremely rare.
The level of modifications that can be done to a 964 is largely dependant upon which variant is chosen. Obviously, the owner of a fully optioned RS or Turbo would have far less to do than the owner of a "grass roots" 964.
On the following pages you will find discussions on some of the most common modifications that can be done to the 964- "extreme" modifications for race use are not within the ambit of this website, although as time permits, such modifications may gradually be included in our discussions.
Over time, it is the authors intent that the pages on Modifications move away from a summary of what can be done (and what is for all intents and purposes the author's personal wish list!), to what has been done, and is proven. The author hopes to achieve this by first hand discussions with those who have done particular modifications, as well as through his own experience (via modifications that he has or will perform on his personal ride).
In turn, hopefully these pages will provide useful answers to other owners wishing to modify their cars to improve certain aspects of their vehicles, without having to go through the process of trial and error.
Note that this website is constantly evolving, and experience gained by readers with regards to modifications are always welcome.
As such, should you have any interesting modifications that you wish to share, I will be shortly setting up a Readers Register, that will enable owners to describe modifications etc performed on their vehicles.