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Frontal view Front SS protection bar

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Above left is a generic picture of the car when I just bought it, Oct 18th, 2000. It was lowered with either Eibach or H&R aftermarket springs previously. The stainless steel bar you see, above right, is there to protect the bottom of the front end from driveways and other hazardous stuff such as parking blocks. It has saved me many times including my own drive way. Front license plate was never installed, so I keep the plate in the front trunk just in case I get pull over. Front plate distracts from the car's good looks. This Turbo's plate has been personalized "911RULE". I wanted "911RULES", but only seven characters/digits allowed in California. Originally the plate was intended for my '97 993 Carrera 2 S; it was not meant to be.
 
So far, I've made some very minor modifications to the Turbo, her name is "Third Chance" by the way. These are limited to interior trim pieces, aluminmum dead and accelerator pedals - home made here. I can't see spend $80 for a dead pedal, and upward to $250 for the set of clutch/brak/accelerator pedals. Besides, I enjoy working on my car. Although I don't have the skills or physical ability to work on the engine or major chores. Those are left to the pros. I know my limits. But I like to learn/understand how they work in theories.
C2 Turbo front end with magbra
This is a what a the front end of the Turbo looks like. I tend to take pictures of the entire car all the time. I thought it would be neat to have some closeup shots of the car. The black mask on the hood (bonnet) is a magbra. It comes in four pieces and was originally for my C2 S. The two smaller pieces won't work on the Turbo because of the headlights and washer nozzles, and shape of the bumper are different. The picture also shows the front wheel clearly. It is 7" x 17" with 55 mm offset. There is enough room for a 1/2" spacer, or 8" x 17" or 8" x 18" rim. I would love to get the original 3.6 Turbo 3-piece wheels.
C2 Turbo rear end I was thinking of replacing the tea-tray tail with a GT-2 tail with adjustable carbon fiber center section. Reason? It is lighter and I've been following the progress of an exactly C2 Turbo from Running Report reporter in "911 & Porsche World" magazine. The reporter from England carried out a long list of modifications to his car: GT-2 tail/front spliters, 18" 993 cup wheels, lower springs, carbon fiber racing seats, and a host of engine bolted-on upgrades. His car is now lighter and power to weight ratio as good or better than a 993TT. Zero to 62 mph (100 kph) under 4 sec.. I will duplicate some of his modifcations.
  As of today, Nov 11th, 2001, my car has been through the annual service maintenance. With the way I drive the car, I will do the maintenance once a year for sure. So far within last year, I've driven it under 4,500 miles, for a 12 months period. To be honest, I don't have a lot of places to go. For the most part, I just drive around for a few hours on the weekends and go home, or I just attend my local club's functions. Sometimes I don't even stop to take a break. Due to my conditions, back pain chronically for life, even on a nice day, I seldom able to enjoy fully. So to me, when I get a chance to drive my car, I have to really enjoy it, or it will just like been tortured because of too much pain. The Turbo has sports suspension and so it is a little stiffer than a normal car. I feel all the bumps on the roads. On a good day that is not a problem, but on a bad day it hurts too much to enjoy the rest of the drive.
  During the service, I changed out the transmission fluid (Mobil One Synthetic tranny oil), fan belt, spark plugs (now uses 4 sprongs plugs), caps and rotor, oil change with Mobil One, and a lot of little things. I also took the chance to upgrade (mod) the fuel distribution system (mechanical fuel enrichment) a little bit with Leslie Rice's Performance Acceleration and Boost Controller. Intially my car ran into an overboost issue because of the surge caused by the change in the fuel enrichment. At first, the overboost protection switch on the Intercooler was grounded. I did not like that idea because of potential overboosted and kill the engine. This means expensive rebuild over $10K. So, the final solution was to replace the often out of specs switch with a new one. Becareful though, some switches are very sensitive and you have to find one with a high values before the fuel cutoff switch kicks in. My mechanic found one for a total of 3 switches before a good one was found. The car now runs great as it should. I almost for get to mention that prior to the annual service, I installed a muffler (primary) bypass with an elbow on the right side of the car. The result is great. First, there is less weight on the back of the car, save about 20 lbs. Second, the sound is great, very sporty and a little louder. Just so you know, the Cat is still in place as before. The car now drives better because of less backpressure from the removal of the muffler. I also installed an K&N direct replacement airfilter during the service. I have not had a chance to really drive the car very hard because of my back problems, and I hope to get that chance soon. Although the fall is midway there and winter will be here soon, but since I live in southern California, I am sure I will have plenty of nice days to drive my car. I just hope my back will be better soon. I will report more as I go. My next big thing will be a set of headers to help with the turbo lag even more. After that, an Electronic Boost Controller. I am not sure which one I will do first. As sume that I still have my job come next year.