Showing posts with label PKG. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PKG. Show all posts
Sep 9, 2011
Kung-Fu Panda! Top Performance Features: Switzer P800 GTR
Recently, Top Performance Magazine featured a P800 GTR built by our preferred installer Panda Performance in Dubai. Moosa Swaiden is the go-to guy who started Panda, you can read more about his story and the details of our P800 that his crew installed in the pages below:
For information on the Switzer P800 and other GTR packages, contact Switzer Performance or the authorized Switzer Performance Preferred Installer near you.
May 12, 2010
Best Value P700 PKG for 996 TT
AWESOME POWER | AWESOME PRICE
The 996 Porsche market is evolving every day, and to keep up with it, Switzer Performance has revamped its BEST VALUE tuning packages to include new, billet-wheel K16 turbo upgrades capable of delivering a smooth and flexible 700 hp on 93 octane pump gas!
P700 BEST VALUE PKG ON THE DYNO
Switzer's new P700 Best Value PKG for 996 TT includes the following:
Switzer Performance Exhaust Switzer/Softronic DME Calibration Softronic OBD Flash Programmer High Flow BMC Air Filter Iridium Performance Spark Plugs Switzer High Flow Fuel Injector System Switzer Silicone Hose Kit Billet Diverter Valves Switzer-modified K16 Billet-wheel Turbos HD Wastegate Actuators Electronic Boost Controller
This is a next-generation tuning solution that does away with a conventional 5-bar fuel pressure regulator, replacing it with a high-flow injection system that allows more precise and efficient tuning that what is possible with the 5-bar.
The P700 Best Value PKG for 996 TT is available now from Switzer dealers, starting at $9995. Contact Switzer Performance for more.
Mar 16, 2010
Switzer's New 996 Hose Kit
This week, we're introducing our latest product for 996 TT Porsche: a new, high-flow silicone hose kit that has been developed in concert with Switzer's ultimate street-driven P800 996 TT Porsches.
These new Switzer silicone boost hose kits use technology that has been proven time and again on dozens of customer cars - delivering cool airflow throughout the Porsche engine bay in the most efficient manner possible to maximize performance.
The Switzer silicone boost hose kit features the Switzer logo, and replaces the factory rubber boost hoses with high-quality silicone and precision-machined aluminum ends for a quick, sure fit every time.
The 5pc. Switzer silicone hose kit is priced at 699 USD, and is available now through Switzer Performance dealers.
Jul 20, 2009
Growing Pains (sha la la la)
The Switzer blog and forum accounts have been pretty quiet recently, and I'm sure many of you have been wondering about what we've been up to "behind the scenes". So what, exactly, have we been up to?
The short answer is "We've been working 12-15 hour days, every day, for the last 2 months."
The less-short answer is that ever since Sharif at Forged Performance approached us about becoming a Switzer installer, we've been making detail changes to our GTR packages to make them more installer-friendly. This is quite a lot easier said than done!
See, here at Switzer, we've always done the majority of our own installs, so if we needed a mounting bracket to be done a certain way, we made it. If we needed an extra washer here or a different bolt-length there, we walked across the shop and pulled it from a drawer. There were no installation manuals, either - we simply remembered what we did the last time, or just referred to a shop notebook for the tricky bits.
As you can imagine, this not The Way To Do Things when you are trying to ship a "ready-to-install" package halfway across the country or across the world; which is exactly what we are trying to do!
Today, we find ourselves growing - and growing fast!
Over the past few months, we've been transforming Switzer Performance from a small, custom tuning shop to a (less small?) manufacturer of bolt-on performance packages based on the "built-to-order" products we've delivered to our clients so far. These packages need to be designed around a single fact: that our dealers may have knowledgeable, experienced technicians to do their installs, but if he doesn't see things exactly the way we do, the pieces we send start to blend together; and where we see a kit, he sees a puzzle!
So, Tym and the rest of the crew downstairs got to work, trying to anticipate - and duplicate! - any hiccup or misstep that a shop may come across. At the same time, they looked at each and every component in the original "in-house" package, and asked how it could be improved, changed, and tweaked to make installations go more smoothly ...
... the results are some of the new parts you see below, which include new lines for the turbos, new blow-off-valves, machined MAF housings for the intakes, updated actuators, and custom silicone hose kits. Less obvious changes include a simpler order-of-operations, a new, more complete hardware kit, and a major (for us!) financial commitment to have our Switzer modified turbos and MONSTER intercoolers ON THE SHELF AND READY TO GO, eliminating a 10-15 day wait to get the stock cores machined out.
Along the way, we've been able to make a few improvements as well. The new lines are more efficient. The new intakes provide better flow. The new cooling package that drastically reduces engine and trans. temperatures on the street and the track.
Did I forget to mention the new cooling package?
Simply put, Nissan's R35 GTR is still new to the marketplace and very new to every tuner. Many of you have been following us along our Nissan tuning path since the beginning, and followed Derek Whitis' Freedom Autosport GTR throughout the 2009 OneLap of America, where the car experienced a number of issues and frequently went into "limp-mode", leading Whitis' team to call it quits about halfway through the event. It was a heart-breaker for all of us, and we found ourselves with lots of questions, lots of theories, and not a whole lot of answers.
Another thing we had lots of, however, was data.
For data to become useful information, it needs careful analysis and a complete understanding of the systems involved. Through additional testing and comparisons between tuned cars (thanks, JR!), stock cars (thanks, Doug!), and the Freedom Autosport car (thanks, Derek!) we were able to isolate many of the issues that gave the car problems. Some of these issues were simple (low coolant), some were simply unexpected (caused by changes to the front and rear outside tire diameters), and some were truly bizarre (I don't even want to TALK about front splitters anymore!).
All of this research, development, testing, verification, and implementation takes time. Sometimes the process takes longer than you anticipate, but we firmly believe that a dedicated R&D program driven by the scientific method will beat "looking under the hood and thinking as hard as you can" any day.
The fruits of this research and 1000 miles of logged track-data from our customers is what led to the detail improvements mentioned above being integrated into our "mass-production" packages, and the development of our all-new cooling package, which we've bundled with our updated P700/800 packages. The new cooling package, in concert with the rest of the updates mentioned above, doesn't take away from the smooth drive-ability of our kits - it simply makes the day to day driving experience that much more like a stock car ...
... it also lets us push the cars Harder where it counts: on the track.
The Switzer P700/800 GTR Nissans have always been powerful street cars that were capable of impressing even the toughest critics at the track. With these new updates, we've been able to create a more bulletproof product that makes the P700/800 into a dominant track day weapon that is every bit as smooth and tractable as the stock R35.
We'll have a full update and product/pricing release on the updated P700/800 packages later this week, as well as a new "R" PKG that will be ready before you know it.
Here's one last pic of the finished install ... enjoy!
Finally, to all of our friends, customers, and dealers: thank you for your continued patience with us as we push through these growing pains. I promise (as those of you who have gotten your cars already know) it will be worth the wait.
Jun 5, 2009
GT2 Porsche Tuning PKGs up to 800 HP
2009 has been a busy year for us here at Switzer Performance. In January, our thousand-horsepower, 9-second SLEDGEHAMMER project car introduced the world to Tym's Oberlin, Ohio-based tuning house, and we followed up that debut act in February when a number of our customer cars ran 10 second 1/4 miles in 700 hp fully-automatic 997 turbo Porsches. March saw the introduction of our Nissan R35 GTR performance upgrades, good for up to 800 hp on 93 octane pump gas.
This week, Tym Switzer is introducing his latest customer-ready performance packages for Porsche's outstanding 997 GT2. The new GT2 packages range from a simple software revision to Switzer's comprehensive flagship offering: the $39,000, 800 hp GT2 PKG shown (installed) in these pictures. "This 800 horsepower pump-gas package has evolved from those first SLEDGEHAMMER builds," explains Tym, "but unlike the SLEDGEHAMMER, which used a stand-alone system, we've been able to keep the factory DME, making this a true bolt-on package. Everything else that went into the SLEDGEHAMMER builds is in this package, running on pump 93."
Switzer's 800 hp GT2 package makes use of custom Garret GT30R-based turbochargers with custom billet compressor wheels on ball-bearing center sections in lightweight stainless turbine housings. Switzer's upgraded turbos compress massive amounts of air, while generating heat than the stock units - heat which is channeled to the engine through Switzer's own MONSTER intercoolers. The engine itself is fed air and fuel through larger injectors and a custom intake plenum with an oversized throttle-body. All this hardware is managed by the stock ECU, running Switzer-specific DME software calibrations. Perhaps the most controversial part of Switzer's package, however, is the exhaust system. Switzer's GT2 exhales through a GT2-specific version of the company's existing 997 TT exhaust. "As much as we would have liked to stick with the GT2's titanium canister, there was just no way to hit our power goal on pump gas with the stock system. It was just too restrictive and not designed to handle this much airflow."
Switzer's stated goal for the GT2 project was 800 crank horsepower on 93 octane pump gas with an efficient, linear power curve that efficiently put power to the ground and didn't punish the driver with sudden spikes in torque and power. One look at the final dyno results (see video, above - about a minute in) reveals those goals have been met. "We were very happy to hit our target numbers, of course, but the best part is that the car is still so manageable on the street, at this power level. It is an everyday hyper-performing exotic, and I can't wait to get it out on the track and see how it performs in the hands of a really talented driver."
The Switzer Performance 800 hp GT2 Porsche package is available now through Switzer Performance dealers. CLICK HERE for more.
May 11, 2009
New Switzer PKG Prices
If you've been on the main site in the last few weeks, you've already seen the new rotating banners at the top of the pages.
One that we'd like to draw particular attention to announces our new 996TT L1 PKG, priced aggressively at $4995. The PKG includes custom DME calibration, BMC air filter, and Switzer full-exhaust with 200 cell cats or cat-delete "test pipes" for trackdays.
I'll be highlighting a few more of these new package prices in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!
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