Sharkwerks 997 4.1s: greatest Porsche 911s ever? 

Peter, you're too kind. Thank you, I really appreciate the support.

Honestly, it's the best engine! Cheers for the kind words.

Ralph is a top, top man!

Thanks for the kind words, Oliver! Needless to say you've an unbelievable machine there. Thanks for the offer to drive, really appreciate it.

Considering move my 997.1 RS to SW 4.1 … how has last year been with 3.9? Thanks

Oliver can I reach u to discuss 3.9? thank you

@@brianhimmelman420 yeah of course, what’s you’re email

Sharkwerks only offers the 3.9 for the 996s...

How did you make out?

can u comment on ur upgrade?

Their 981 Cayman GT4 is a work of art, really has improved on the factory car immensely. If they do it again on the 718 platform I've no doubt it'll be sensational.

@@9WERKSTV Yeah I agree the corrected the odd choice in gear ratio's and gave it a bit more pep but like you said I'd imagine the moment the get to work on the 718 gt4 then we'll see something special..

DeMan now has you covered on that front!

Thank you very much!

Agreed!

Both brilliant engines with plenty of torque and a strong pull from low-revs right to the redline. Sharkwerks engine edges it for me due to its razor sharp throttle response, I'd also say it's freer-revving too.

My pleasure!

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You are right - I should have said lb/ft not nm. My bad, thanks for pointing that out Juha.

@@9WERKSTV Usually we get a ballpark figure for atmo-spark ignited engines by simply taking the volume, say 1.6 l -> 160 Nm, 4100 ccm -> 410 Nm. Nowadays it is usually abit more than this. The power is basically torque * revs, so to the higher revs the engine is tuned the more power. Also if you have, say, 2.0 liter engine with charge boost coefficient of 1.4 you get about equavalent atmo of 2.8 l -> 280 Nm plus a bit more. There is actually very little means to play with torque other than effective volume flow. That's why they say "no substitute for cubic inches". Diesels give more torque basically due to higher combustion ratio and the torque band (also efficiency band) is wider as there are no restricting pressure drop devices (butterflyes, guillotines) in the inlet channels. Today most diesels are artificially torque limited to enhance engine life span. Electric motors are often constant torque up to a rev point after which they turn to constant power engines (=torque drops with revs).

@@9WERKSTV ... mind you, Sharkwerks cars, canyon carving ... what a dream.

@@juhakivekas2175 love the insight! Thanks as always.

Thank you very much! Choosing between them is so difficult… the GT3 is the greater engineering feat as it's had more ground to make up on the RS, but I'd take the RS purely for that colour combo. I think it's absolutely stunning.

@@9WERKSTV It does look great, I agree! But either of them would be epic, as you said.