981 Boxster S - PSE upgrade
Discussion
Afternoon all,
Fancying a wee treat to myself for a birthday and asked my OPC for the costs to upgrade my 981 Boxster S with the switchable exhaust.
It already has the twin exhaust tips and as far as I understood the installation of the switchable component of this would be 'relatively' inexpensive compared to a whole new exhaust system.
The sports exhaust quote is £3,327.68 inc parts, labour and VAT.
Which I'm assuming is a full system from headers back to tips?
Can anyone shed some light on the upgrade path perhaps?
Thanks, Rich.
Fancying a wee treat to myself for a birthday and asked my OPC for the costs to upgrade my 981 Boxster S with the switchable exhaust.
It already has the twin exhaust tips and as far as I understood the installation of the switchable component of this would be 'relatively' inexpensive compared to a whole new exhaust system.
The sports exhaust quote is £3,327.68 inc parts, labour and VAT.
Which I'm assuming is a full system from headers back to tips?
Can anyone shed some light on the upgrade path perhaps?
Thanks, Rich.
anonymous said:
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Let's just assume that I'm a cack handed bodger who doesn't trust himself to DIY it. On to the next questions.
Did the Boxster S come with the twin sports tailpipes as standard?
As specced (I have the original order sheet) it doesn't mention sports tailpipes but I clearly have 2 x and not the single outlet.
I've also emailed the previous owner to see if they can shed any light before I email the OPC back.
RichTT said:
anonymous said:
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Let's just assume that I'm a cack handed bodger who doesn't trust himself to DIY it. On to the next questions.
Did the Boxster S come with the twin sports tailpipes as standard?
I had a 987 Boxster before that and had PSE retrofitted. That cost just over £2K but could have knocked around £500 off that with an Indy if the car hadn't still been under warranty.
RichTT said:
Well, this was a short lived story.
"The one on the car is the original one from new." - previous owner
They do last, ours has the original exhaust as well so is nearly 8 years old. We had to have the gaskets replaced in 2021 as it was leaking and would have failed the MOT but according to our local OPC the exhaust was still fine. Pleased with their honesty. "The one on the car is the original one from new." - previous owner
When I had a 981 I bought the whole PSE kit from Porsche and fitted it myself, cost about £1500, only the kit which included the sports tailpipe was available so I bought that, even though my car aleady had that part fitted as an option from new.
Any decent indy place could fit it if you can't, pretty sure I will have the full fitting instructions on pdf somewhere, you do have to have the exhaust coded in once it's fitted by somebody with a PWIS type tool
Any decent indy place could fit it if you can't, pretty sure I will have the full fitting instructions on pdf somewhere, you do have to have the exhaust coded in once it's fitted by somebody with a PWIS type tool
If the OP is looking for the PSE sound but can’t stomach those costs then you could make a nice birthday trip to Belgium and get the Carnewal back box fitted for a total cost about 560 euro. Or gat it posted to the UK and fitted here (likely need to pay some import tax). It is the same backbox opened up and fettled to sound like the PSE with valves open, love mine!
Appreciate all the comments. Price came down by about 1k once they corrected the mistake in pricing so I'm going for it. Of course the parts are on backorder and might not arrive by the time the car is due in for the MOT as I was getting it all done at once.
Seeing as it was the only item missing off the original spec that I wanted I figured best to get it done properly the first time.
Seeing as it was the only item missing off the original spec that I wanted I figured best to get it done properly the first time.
Grundo hack, at PCW EXHAUST in Steppingley Bedfordshire
Porsche Cayman
£300
They don't come much more iconic than the Porsche Caman but without the sports exhaust they lack the sound you would expect from a Porsche, I suspect those crafty marketeers at Porsche thought everyone would tick the PSE (Porsche Sports Exhaust) option when they spec'd the car up after being underwhelmed by the non PSE system.. well I've done enough 911s to know not many people ticked that box
This mod is known by a couple of names mainly the PSE hack or the Gundo Hack (named after a forum username) the mod is pretty simple, its basically a pipe between the inlet and outlet pipe meaning you can partially bypass the silencer, the PSE system acts in the same way just with a valve, though everyone with a PSE has the valve open constantly anyway making it pretty pointless
Porsche Cayman
£300
They don't come much more iconic than the Porsche Caman but without the sports exhaust they lack the sound you would expect from a Porsche, I suspect those crafty marketeers at Porsche thought everyone would tick the PSE (Porsche Sports Exhaust) option when they spec'd the car up after being underwhelmed by the non PSE system.. well I've done enough 911s to know not many people ticked that box
This mod is known by a couple of names mainly the PSE hack or the Gundo Hack (named after a forum username) the mod is pretty simple, its basically a pipe between the inlet and outlet pipe meaning you can partially bypass the silencer, the PSE system acts in the same way just with a valve, though everyone with a PSE has the valve open constantly anyway making it pretty pointless
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