You likely have noticed many articles about TTE (The Turbo Engineers) lately as they seem to have a hybrid turbocharger upgrade for basically any platform. They are usually the first to market as well as evidenced by their recent Lamborghini Urus upgrade. You name it, they have a turbo upgrade. BoostAddict did not know how large their reach was until speaking with Simon Sharp of Sharp Motorsport Ltd. This network of sites can often be quite critical as we question pricing trying to keep vendors honest and being located in the USA we use dollar priced products as the barometer. Now is a good time to mention we were very wrong in our criticism of TTE's Porsche 991.2 GT2 RS TTE1200 VTG turbo upgrade. Why? Because much like the X51 package for the Porsche 991.2 3.0 Carrera models a VIN must be provided to Porsche to get the turbochargers which are then modified. Buying Porsche factory parts directly is not cheap. There are few VINS to go around and few GT2 RS owners that modify their cars. It is not the same as machining some housings off a volume model and the price reflects the cost of the VTG's to begin with from Porsche then the work TTE has to do in order to get them to support 1200+ horsepower level of output. PorscheBoost got it wrong saying the price was absurd. On the bright side, TTE Global is aboard the network as a premium vendor and they are expanding their reach worldwide. APR recently tuned some 2.5 TFSI models equipped with TTE hybrids for example. Additionally, TTE offers the largest volume of hybrid turbocharger upgrades in Europe. Many of those big Euro tuning houses you hear of go to TTE and private label. We will not name names but you have likely heard of a certain very big Porsche tuner with a single syllable name. Yep, they go to TTE. As do some AMG tuning houses by the way. They are number one for a reason and it is because their products work. Yes, on a direct dollar conversion some of their turbos are more expensive than US competition but you know what you get for that money? A quality product that works and lasts. They are not sourcing cheap Chinese garbage. People will pay for quality. BoostAddict will cover the TTE Global product line: https://tteglobal.com/ You can expect to see more of their turbo upgrades in the USA. Welcome aboard TTE Global!

Not a ton of 10-second RHD hybrid results to report but this is great to see. BimmerBoost members in the United Kingdom as well as Australia in particular will take notice of this result on a full weight E92 335i and of course the Nizpro upgraded automatic is helping that elapsed time. Rob Beck covered the details below: Not a real common feat for this platform, especially on twins and stock'ish powertrain, while full weight. Even more so unique is that I believe this maybe the first RHD car to ever hit 10's period? (That is of course barring those running power glides) At any rate great short times helped this one along, but still pretty deep into the 10's so it is not like it just eek'd it's way in there in the process. Back to the OE'ish power train and full weight category, this is the 2nd quickest 1/4 ET I recall ever seeing... but it is open for discussion as well. Anyway here is all of the information that was provided, including the timeslip, below. Stock internals Twin Super RB Evo 17T Turbos VTT inlets Fabricated my own aluminium outlets VRSF 7.5" Race IC ER Charge pipe with twin Forge DVs Fuel-it Stage 3 LPFP and PI Bimmerlife coils and NGK 95770 spark plugs 0.022" AR catless downpipes Exhaust is stock apart from 200cpsi secondary cats Custom tune from BQ Tuning using MHD Transmission is a Nizpro upgraded ZF 6HP21 with Stage 3 xHP tune and stock TC Modified M3 diff fitted with 3.25 ratio gears and E36 LSD Mickey Thompson 275/40R17 ET Street S/S tyres https://datazap.me/u/coupes44/datalo...54&tmax=908.41

VF-Engineering knows what PorscheBoost and the BoostAddict Network of sites likes to see. Real world data, real world results. VF-Engineering has a long history tuning Porsches from 911's with supercharger kits to turbocharged variants. Let's start with the dyno results from the VF-Engineering all wheel drive Mustang dynamometer. Vehicle: 2016 Porsche 991.1 Turbo (Cabriolet) Hardware Mods: NONE Software Mods: HEX Tuning Stage ONE Dyno: Mustang AWD-500-SE STOCK: 464 WHP / 493 WTQ TUNED:496 WHP / 598 WTQ Peak Gains: 29 WHP / 102 WTQ MAX Gains: +113 WHP & 165WTQ @ 3,600 RPM 464 horsepower to all four wheels on this dyno stock on 91 octane pump gas is very healthy. This being a 991.1 Turbo, look at the torque increase and not just peak horsepower. From 3000 rpm on and it is just night and day. Picking up over 100 lb-ft at all four wheels is, frankly, huge. The majority of the gain comes down low as expected. So how does this translate to real world acceleration? A Dragy GPS box was utilized to measure before and after 0-60 and 0-100 sprints. STOCK 0-60: 3.25s STOCK 0-100: 7.61s TUNED 0-60: 2.87s TUNED 0-100: 6.63s Knocking off almost a full second on the 0-100 sprint is a major gain. 0-100 in 6.63 seconds is supercar territory. Not bad at all for what is Stage 1 Hex software only on 91 octane pump gas.

The Steed Speed bottom mount manifold sure seems to be efficient as evidenced in the graph below. At roughly 22 psi of boost at 3500 rpm the motor is making just about 600 lb-ft of torque at the wheels on a Dynojet. That is pretty good spool. CES Motorsport claims this setup is good for 850 wheel horsepower but they have yet to prove it. Either way, 682 whp with this torque curve is nothing to sneeze at: There are those who like keeping it stealth and of course others who love a big top mount turbo in the engine bay. It's good to have options.

If you have a classic Porsche you will appreciate these new HRE Vintage Series additions or even if you have a modern 911 but want to replicate that classic RUF inspired style. The nice thing is these wheels come in sizes from 17 inches to 22 inches. The 527S in particular definitely looks like the classic rims we all saw on the RUF Yellowbird. HRE chose classic Porsches to model the rims but it would be interesting to see them on newer 911's in some larger sizes as well. Nice to see a modern twist on classic styles.

The ProFlex Commander is essentially a flex-fuel sensor that helps the ECU adjust to E85 fuel. Depending on the motor this results in power gains thanks to the additional octane. It's essentially cheap race gas as most of you already know. Is it worth the cost? Absolutely. Even on a port injected 2017 Mustang GT Coyote motor the car picks up 13 horsepower at the wheels with gains throughout the entire curve: For a plug and play E85 solution this is a hard product to beat. Unfortunately, it only works for the earlier Coyote motors and not the updated 2018 version with a dual-injection fuel system. Hopefully they will address the new Coyote soon.