12/8/2022 0 Comments Inflatable steering console![]() I also found a local good ol’ boy to weld me up an H-pipe to replace my center muffler, which I suspect probably removes power but makes the car sounds like a fancy Subaru.Īccording to the charts, my car is the very slowest 991 model ever made, but also one of the lightest. I got a good deal on an off-the-shelf Cobb tune, which didn’t really add much power-my car is from the last years of the naturally aspirated 911s-but it does smooth out some weird fueling around the cam changes that plagues the factory tune. The base 3.4 engine loves to rev, which is good because there’s almost no torque down low. The Ohlins not only soak up bad bumps as smoothly as a warm bread in olive oil, they also turned a very good handling car into a little knife-missile. The only true performance modification that I’ve done is to install Ohlins Road & Track coilovers, as the stock (non-PASM) suspension was pretty awful at handling the bad roads in my county. He left with a new Land Cruiser, and I got a pretty good deal on a base 991.1 with 25,000 miles on it. I bought it used at a Toyota dealership, where it had been traded in by a fellow who loved golf, which I know because I am still finding golf tees in crannies two years after my purchase. There Are Many Like It, But This One’s Mine Pre-ruined 911.īefore I get into the customizations, a quick overview of the base car: It’s a 2014 Carrera 2. My first attempt at using it as a camper is taking it to Overland Expo east in Virginia, which is basically Luftgekühlt, right? ![]() I still want a sports car I just want to be able to sleep in it. ![]() Those are cool, but I can’t afford that commitment. It’s not going to be anything crazy, mind you - no safari build. My old camping rig, which was an actual truck.Ī new truck is in the cards, but until then, I’m trying a little experiment: turning the 911 into a long-distance camper. Which is why instead of a truck, I now have a 2014 Porsche 911. But since I sold my last truck camper about four years ago, I’ve been sampling some other automotive lifestyles. ![]() I like to think I’m an overlanding adventure truck guy, but what I mostly am is a guy who likes to drive hundreds of miles to sleep inside a fancy camper at an interstate rest stop. It has very little ground clearance, the options for mud terrain tires are dreadful, and mine came with a used flat engine in the bed that I haven’t figured out how to remove. ![]()
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