Porsche 996 Turbo

Here we have Amir's recently acquired Porsche 996 Turbo, with a few extras of course :) The car is now producing a monsterous 650hp at the wheels!

The car came to Invisible Touch to recieve a stage 1 paintwork enhancement with 2 applications of protection and a caliper refresh. This was the car on arrival...

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Firstly the car was jetwashed and then many areas cleaned with APC and fine brushes were washing alone would not reach

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It was then snow foamed before being washed by 2 bucket method using Shampoo Plus

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Then dried and taken inside for paint thickness readings. Many readings were taken per panel, the higher numbers showing clear evidence of previous paintwork

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The paintwork was then inspected under halogen and LED lighting

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Polished with the Makita rotary, 3M polishing pad and backing plate using Meguiars 205 as the primary polish, with a small amount of #83 to give a little more bite

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Proceeding around the Porsche

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Onto the beautiful carbon spolier

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Once all polishing was complete, i turned to the calipers. As quite often seen with these, the lacquer was beginning to peel. Several options were available to this from rubbing them down to remove the peel thus creating a good key and then hand finishing, to completely stripping them and powder coating. If the latter was chosen it would obviously make perfect sense to also use a rebuild kit in the process. As they were functioning fine, the first option was chosen

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New Porsche decals were also applied

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Although soon to be replaced, whilst the wheels were off they were given a good clean inside and out. Being on the ramp and having a good view underneath, it would have been criminal not to give the stunning exhaust system a really good polish. Sadly i forgot to take finished pics of it!

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The paintwork was fully wiped down with IPA to remove polishing oils allowing the finishing products to bond better, increasing their durability. After discussing options, it was chosen to firstly apply 1 layer of Collinite. This was buffed off and left over night to fully cure

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The following day i applied another layer of Swissvax Best Of Show

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Glass was polished, plastics and tyres dressed. The interior was hoovered and dusted. These were the final pictures :)

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Hope you enjoyed the read...

Mega!

These are gona be a real pain for me on the road, becoming so cheap!

Great thread Skillz!

No probs Dan!

I've got a 1300WHP Supra coming up in a bit as well, you should see the turbo on it!

The carbon bits look crap, so does the interior!

Do want! Hellish fast car for the money these, and I actually love the rear wing. WANT. Oh yeah, good job on the detailing paintworks had a tough life on that!

Agreed I'm a lover of the 996 turbo, a lot of car for the money and very fast


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It needs phatter wheels taking a second look.

Think the wing is abit of a limp effort, bit of a soggy willy draped accross the back!

Smashing car!

Like many cars of this status, buying is the easy bit. Running, tuning & looking after it like it deserves takes a bank balance most of us can only aspire to.

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Kyles loaded :lol:

:lol::lol::lol: You're the overtime King Toddington 8-)

I didn't say I'd be able to afford to actually drive it lol

Overtime WTF? Do people still get overtime anymore these days?

Very tired paintwork on this came up a treat although I was left a bit confused about the calipers. Did they need to come off the car and obviously they were reglossed but after rubbing down did the red paint not need to be reapplied too?

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:lol::lol::lol: You're the overtime King Toddington 8-)

I didn't say I'd be able to afford to actually drive it lol

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Bet you've earnt nearly double what I have this year lol

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Bet you've earnt nearly double what I have this year lol

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You've only earned £5k!??? :-\"

Yeah we're only a few weeks in ;)

Ah we run April to April, you know the actual tax year lol...

Lol was joking, I wish I'd done 5k in 2 weeks lol.

I haven't done too bad, better than I thought I would, it just all went on the bloody wedding lol. You've gotta be heading for at least 60k tho lol

Haha I wish! I am quite off the pace to make that this year.

the porker - is it 40 to 60 in 2nd gear in 1 second? mad.

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the porker - is it 40 to 60 in 2nd gear in 1 second? mad.

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Thats the 997 Turbo Clarkson loved on TG, different beast to these from the factory.

997s are heading the same way. Anyway I'm off to Tesco, fancy some burgers.

A half decent 996 Turbo will still fetch 20K+.

Mind you, can't get much decent new for 20K these days!

How about a 993 Turbo?

Sexual.

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997s are heading the same way. Anyway I'm off to Tesco, fancy some burgers.

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I liked my Horse too :P

My favourite Turbo Porsche road going model

is the 993 Porsche 911 Turbo 3.6 (93-95) gorgeous car.

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A half decent 996 Turbo will still fetch 20K+.

Mind you, can't get much decent new for 20K these days!

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Myself Kyle and dan are having a discussion about the price of 996tt at the moment. Dan thinks its too much money. Me and Kyle agree that it's a hell of a lot of car for £20-25k

Myself and the wife were contemplating the new shape (b8) s4 next year as they are around the same price range, but may have to try talk her round to a 996 instead lol

Would rather get an R34 GTR for the same cash.

25k is still a lot to be spending on something second hand, probably thrashed and known for poor reliability.

Was only post 2000 engined that were prone to cylinder walls cracking

It's the non-turbos that are unreliable, different engines. Get it straight! I love R34s but it's just a Nissan. Fancy being a badge whore for once; something with a bit more class.

Really don't think theres anything classy about a 996 :lol:

Want classy, get a Rolls.

Nothing classy about a 90k new Porsche.....ok

I disagree Dan, more classy that a Ford or a Fiat or a Mitsubishi. You just don't like it because it's quicker than the average Evo lol

I didn't compare it to anything else you Bumder. I like them, but they're certainly not classy, like this blue one... Its not classy.

Why is everything bench marked for performance against Evos? :lol: C U N T

Amir's 996? Er.......not Amir Khan?