Modified Porsche 911 997.1 Carrera 4S Review - Can £10,000 Improve My Favourite 911? 

This would be awesome

I'll "review" it for you !

Hope you guys realise the account jayEmmcars2 is fake

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Email him better that way than commenting

Update, car stolen from driveway this spring, waiting for insurance payout

@@danrook5757 wow, so sad man

Agree. I put Koni FSDs on my 996 with M030 sports suspension. Great body control, but with nice compliance on choppy road surfaces.

Probably more I'd say , best to say nothing and do it , or you will end up in my position , I like to share my dreams none of them have come to fruition . bottle it up and use it as fuel and tell nobody , you will make it happen then . Everyone really wants you to fail I don't but most people do , and that has power it's best to 🤫 about things you want because it throws away the desire to gain it . It's like having a wank about a woman you fancy ,

@@ThomasDoubting5 Agreed.

Bare in mind the vile new regulations coming into force by that time, those things are going to leap in price and nobody will want to let them go.

I had a manual Gen 1 997 2007 C2S found it pretty boring. Much prefer the Cayman S.

They’ve tanked again. Seen a lot of manuals back in the low 20’s

Felt that, dealer down the street from me wants 80K US for a 997 C4S. Far too much money.

*scamdemic Should have cracked on and got one anyways lad, we ended up with a new type R and the Mrs got her N-line hyundai whilst all the sheeple hid indoors because of a cold.

Car prices are gonna tank again soon

I thought the same, what’s been done to get the BHP up by 30th p or so

It’s got a Strasse engine, aftermarket springs & new dampers. Plenty of places can set up the geo.

I agree, if you're going to bother replacing them do it with good coil-overs like Bilstein B16's or similar.

Agreed

Congratulations you have been contacted by a scammer.

Replace the wipers, they may have dried out

No, all 2 wheel drive 997 Carreras are narrow body.

4 is WB

2S is narrow. only 4S is widebody

@@mattdedasc 44mm wider; you’re right 👍. Also never knew the GT3 was a narrow body whereas the RS is wider!

Not necessarily, Top gear tested the 997 C2 and C4 round a track and the 4WD was marginally quicker. I have also seen other cases of this. The C2 may be quicker when the conditions are perfect but that's rarely the case in the UK

Yeah I seem to recall 997 generation was where the AWD started getting faster than the 2WD

I have a C4S. Forget the performance that can only a very good driver on a track could differentiate. It's the wider body! The proportions of those hips to the waist does it for me every time! The C2S's body just doesn't have the same visual presence in my opinion.

@@yellow1one Interesting. I was looking forward to buy a 996 in the near future but I wasn't too sure if the 4WD wouldn't make it a bit slower. I haven't driven one nor do I have any decent datasheets where I can compare both variants.

Bore scoring. Not a question of 'if' but rather 'when'.

Yep happened to me twice😳 it’s not internet rumour and do not let anyone tell you anything different!

@@WFOSA67 twice? Again After rebuild?

@@os3990 not the same car! Once on a 20,000mile 2005 997.1 C2S years ago which I’d only had for a couple of months which I very luckily got my money back on as I had a good relationship with the dealer. The second was a 2007 C4S X51 which I got bore scoped after buying from RSJ for piece of mind, it was showing early signs so I got my money back on it. I wasn’t prepared to risk it, to be fair to Joel he was great. It’s poor form from Porsche, I love the 997.1, I really do but unless it’s been to Hartech I wouldn’t touch one again.

Yeah boring scoring is a problem and some no doubt will need to be rebuilt. It’s a major problem but two points I want to make here: 1) 997.2 is much more expensive than the 997.1 because of the reputation of the engine. However, the difference now exceeds the cost of a rebuilding. This means you can easily price in the future cost if you are looking at this generation 911. And don’t think getting a 997.2 will save you from potentially massive bills. If you ever have to change the pdk box in the 997.2 it will be nearly as expensive as a 997.1 engine resleeve! 2) you can just get a borescope done to see the general condition of the cylinder linings. This isn’t like the IMS problem where it randomly blew up giving no indicators. Scoring happens over many tens of thousands of miles. Another point I want to make is that bore scoring wasn’t just a design issue. Porsche has a two year service intervals and this encouraged some people not to change their oil regularly enough. Secondly, the 0w40 oil recommended by Porsche is a rather poor choice designed for economy. Yes, it’s impossible to know how a car is treated in its life but once a rebuild is done there’s plenty of room for preventative maintenance. Mine had a rebuild at 38k for some of the obvious reason of previous owners not running the car properly (infrequently driven, short distances, not warmed up properly, idling too long ect all will increase chance of scoring over time) and now it gets driven properly and cared for with frequent oil changes and a nice slow warm up no issues after many years.

Yeah, I never really understand this. Unless you're going to fit harnesses and wear them every time just gotta hope you dont crash

Welcome to modified cars I guess

Just don’t crash, it’s fine

Especially considering you can easily upgrade to a more modern 911 steering wheel and have modern looks without sacrificing the airbag or steering wheel remote.

It’s idiotic

I’m guessing the RMS bearing went.

@@craigwalker2640 RMS? Do you mean the IMS?

@@kw8757 that’s the one. 😂

The 2005 onwards models came with the stronger IMS bearing so it was never a problem. You were more likely if anything to find bore scoring (approx 2% of cars sold experienced this) on the 997.1

@@peterbest5938 I'm guessing it's one of those jobs that needs so much labour, you might as well do the extra work whilst the engine is apart? Or does the bearing failing, mean damage to the engine? I know little little re porche power trains.

Yep, I must be getting popular

@Neil Burgin: Well Porsche did exactly that (ducktail) on the 997 and 992 Sport Classics. To hark back to the 2.7 RS. Like most styling things it's personal taste. Some like. Others don't. No right or wrong. I like. Judgemental much 😂

@@gregspark9845 quite! And as for the rear seats, they're so useless anyway, why wouldn't you delete them?

You might be in the wrong channel

@@chriscarbaugh3936 You have to realize that not everyone likes Porsche and thinks that those within the Porsche group are cowards, and those who like Porsche are narrow-minded people who are against change.

And you have to realize not everybody hates them either, if you are so anti them I am also surprised you came here to watch this video!

@@JayEmmOnCars I NEVER watch a video with any Porsche. I'm just criticizing the shit.

@@ingvartorma9789 so you search youtube for videos that you don't want to watch, and you comment on them without watching them. Do you enjoy wasting your own time and annoying yourself? This is the most bizarre way to entertain yourself, find something to be angry about. As long as your anger makes you happy. Each to their own I suppose. People really are weird.

Or just put liners in it instead of a boat anchor engine like an LS that won't fit without hacking up the shell...

@@richardharrold9736 £13,000 for an engine rebuild in n Ireland, there’s a company in England that do the LS V8 conversion and it’s lighter than the rubbish flat 6

@@Ricky-cl5bu the LS is no lighter and it's a garbage pushrod boat anchor that can't rev past 6500 and is all done at 6000 power wise. Awful engines. If you're going to engine swap a 911 there are much better options than the LS, which is over 25% longer than the flat six. Something like an Audi 4.2 would be a much better bet.