Supercharged Porsche 911 by Theon Design review: a restomod like no other | PistonHeads 

i noticed the chattering when off throttle before he mentioned it. surprised any owner would tolerate it. sounds like a fan hitting its shroud.

At £400k, you can't just dismiss the money. It defines the car and generates all kinds of difficult expectations and comparisons. At this price, it feels like you're paying a £300k premium for the air-cooled vibe and not much else. You can take, say, a really nice low mile 997.2 Carrera, chuck £30-40k at it and have something truly fabulous. Or a 997.1 with a Hartech 4.0 build, which would cost a piffling £20k for the build, have the interior re-trimmed and some lovely dampers. Or maybe just a 997.2 GT3. It's hard to claim any of those would be less car than this. Sure, if you want the air-cooled thing, you want the air-cooled thing. But good god, the premium, it's just so hard to comprehend. Buy this car, put 20k miles on it and as it begins to look a bit worn, feel a bit tired and develops a few squeaks and rattles, the notion that it cost £400,000 will begin to seem quite preposterous, I fear. Ultimately, at this price the car seems less like a thing for driving and more like a thing for ordering, a device for spending money. I think what cars like this are all about is the idea of the thing, process of specifying it, the 'luxury' experience of spending so much money commissioning something like this. Realistically, these cars won't get driven. The owners will lose interest soon after acquisition. Because owning and driving the car isn't what it's about. And the vibe of the thing is slightly cartoonish and chintzy as opposed to serious long term driver's car.

That supercharger chattering would do my head in. Personally the 4 litre NA with a Carbon Fibre body sounds right up my street. Just need to sell a lung and kidney now🤔🤣

The muscular haunch effect of the rear wheel arches defines the ultimate 911 body style.

Exactly what I was missing with all the 911 restomods which are more motorsports focused… GT tourer, with a drive-able relaxed engine is a missing space in the busy restomod world… Perfect 🎉❤

A lovely looking car. My £8k 252bhp 986 is an absolute bargain next to this.

The F/R lower valances plus the non center quad exhaust are just absolutely spot on !!!

If money was no object, this would be my perfect Porsche. Love everything about it. Simple, clean, elegant, classic. And that sound ❤

An absolutely beautiful car. I love it. What a splendid result.

So beautiful, it’s perfect

Love the car obviously, thought I saw a couple of puffs of smoke, perhaps it was dust thrown up from the road! What a dream car 👏👍😀

Wicked machine!!

Supremely beautiful 911 built for the mega rich, mare mortals like me will like to bolt on a supercharger on my 987.2 with an updated suspension setup, then that’s a keeper as I watch it age gracefully. Nice review

Excellent review!

Electric power steering???

A good car no question. But is it worth €400k? I really think they need to do more to justify the price. As it is maybe a €200k price range is more appropriate.

Pretty cool!

That chattering! Just sounds broken.

Genuinely looking Porsche

Have they actually sold any cars? I know of one that’s been around all the specialist dealers and no one has sold it

How many more builders are going to pop up with the same story selling $500k+ 964’s?

These modded 911s are lovely no doubt, but these prices take the piss. It just doesn't cost that much to achieve top quality

I would LOVE to have enough money to buy one of his cars. Metallic green with that gorgeous saddle leather brown interior, but want the headrest to mimic classic Porsche seat rest in modern cars. Yellow Porsche paint on bottom of doors. But would prefer a complete light bar at top of the back window similar in width to the new Porsche break lights. And I'd want a modern Porsche steering wheel - even of the buttons don't work. And I'd park that next to my silver/cobalt blue Kaege 911, Singer DLS and modern 911 Turbo S. Then my life would be complete.

Nice but I'm most impressed that this tall man has concertinaed into this car and vaguely fits. A Countach must present a bigger challenge for him! Look forward to the day when the new GT3 engine is dropped into a body shell like this one.

Had a supercharged 80' 911SC for a few years. Paxton supercharger 3.0L H6 kit from Superchargers of Knoxville setup. It wasn't as fancy as that thing but it didn't need to be because... it was supercharged.

Thank you jason segel

What's the smoke coming out of the exhaust right side? Also it looks bit rough around the edges. "Nothings' perfect" - it bloody well ought to be for £400K. Look what else you can buy for that sort of money!!!

At 10:18, what is that knocking/rhythmic noise? When he downshifts of lets off is heard. Camera mic maybe?

Cheaper than a Singer, I guess? I saw one at Goodwood last Saturday. Exceptional finish and details. But I couldn’t live with the supercharger chatter on this particular one.

How much extra hp does the smokeking engine give?

At first it sounds like Chris Harris 😳

If I was in the market for such a vehicle, my money would be going to Singer. This is clearly a nice 911, but it just doesn't have the same level of refinement in it as a Singer does: the fit and finish, the smoke (9:01), the supercharger chatter, are reasons why it doesn't deserve that price tag. For a rough comparison, there's an immaculate, fully restored 964 RS currently for sale on Pistonheads for £169,995 and a 9,200 mile 997.2 GT3 RS for £214,995. So... for your money, would you rather have those two in your garage, or this Theon?

Hell yeah Greyjoy

Friend of mine supercharged his 3.6 and couldn't keep belts on it. Tried all configs. The on/off and lash just eats them...

Never thought I'd say this, but the "911 restomod for a few hundred K" market is saturated

THEON, Singer, Rennsport, RWB....are there enough 964's left?

Great car, can't help but compare it to a Singer though...

These Rotax superchargers robs power to make boost, Turbos use wasted energy to create boost. Turbos always make more power at equal boost levels. But Superchargers offer better packaging and less heat

i hear chatter when you back off the gas pedal - whats that?

Very nice but If I had the money I think I’d prefer a NA one for cruising around Europe.

When I heard the voice in the beginning... I really thought it was Chris Harris...

What was he talking about the body steel panels are hand made by Porsche?!

How much?

bavard !

How do they did dissipate the heat that 400 hp produces? All engines are “heat engines” power = heat, period. Do they run it rich to cool it ? This is something I’ve never understood in air cooled resto-mods. If you asked another 200 hp out of a Continental or Lycoming, you’d cook the engine doing it.

£400k is too much… driving ‘noise’ not on

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Well….it’s just awesome isn’t it, if anyone would like to donate me one for Christmas it would be greatly received.

Prefer singer porsche on auto top nl 800bhp green yellow nice

400k?

For those who would like to enjoy the sound of the last air cooled 911 🙂 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y4vuH6aHMlQ.html

For 400k interior design is well behind Singer, also I know of a 964 with a much better engine bay than that, fully smoothed, wiring loom tuck, all for far less than 100k. Be interesting to see how these retro car remakes are viewed once we move on a generation in terms of motoring enthusiast.

400k ... a Rolls Royce with all creature comfort...

Notice how none of the mechanics had any grease on their clothing?

Just swap in STI engine it it for better performance & reliability at 1/8 the price

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The chattering sounds like crap. Seriously, I couldn’t drive it with that noise. My supercharger has a whine which is great, not a chatter. Sounds like something is broken and needs fixed.

Sorry build quality is just not a patch on a singer. Simple as that

Brilliant car, but no way could i live with that chattering noise

For 440K its simply stupid- lovely car and build but could do so much better

Are pistonheads sponsered by Porsche? So much porsche content.

Super charger chatter would absolutely do ones head in. Sounds terrible

It sucksssss that you need to be a multi millionaire to own a car like this…. Why can’t they (or any manufacturer) make a stripped down, bare bones simple sports car like they did back in these days. Surely, they would sell like crazy

400k chattering supercharger plus puffing blue smoke sorry guys thats a fail.

That chattering is horrible, I'd return it and go NA.

a hole

Who on earth would order the chattering when engine braking? Porsche flat 6 IS engine braking, you don't put some chattering over it...crazy

400K... 🙄🤣 Money have NO MEANING.

The back is god awful. Everyone please stop putting fiberglass or plastic panels on vintage Porsches. If someone wants a GT3, they can buy one. There is nothing good looking at 2:03. Then he goes on to say this car is all steel. Ummmm not even close.

You'd need to be sectioned to buy this for £400k. Wonky bonnet panel gaps. Smoke billowing out of O/S tailpipe. Clueless in house knowledge re a supercharger being totally inappropriate on an air cooled engine. Total fail.

You lost me at “it’s not about the money it’s about heart and soul” #Pretentious is the opposite of what 911 is about

I'd laugh at one of those at that price. Sorry. Love them but not worth more than 100k usd. Period.

another 911 reimagined. how many of you are still out there, how many more 911? 911 is "special" as vw golf, it is everywhere, it is boring!

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Lovely car, very annoying reviewer. Constant Jazz hands and the word 'delicious' are a big no no. As for the not discussing the price, I don't care how much heart and soul goes into one, its still massively overpriced at £400,000!! I love cars, always have but I am really sad about where it is going. Everything is getting massively expensive and so many people are now being excluded from the industry because of this.

Horrible looking thing that Pistonheads keep plugging. I’m sure Pistonheads are getting a back-hander the way they keep plugging Porsches.