Porsche Panamera Turbo Development
We were lucky enough to have a customer travel down to Vivid Racing this week with his Panamera Turbo to let Agency Power begin development on the power parts. The car uses the standard diverter valves as seen on a 996TT and every Audi or VW 1.8T or 2.0T. This allowed for a simple and quick upgrade with the Agency Power diverter valves. Our test exhaust includes the midpipe and rear muffler system with quad tips. Each piece will be made modular so you can utilize it with the corresponding stock part. We did a baseline of the car in both standard, sport and sport plus mode. The car comes with 500hp to the crank and our baseline test yielded about 410awhp on 91octane. This is about accurate considering the Mustang AWD dyno gives about a 20-25% drivetrain loss.
Our first test shows the difference with the stock to AP exhaust system. We did the tests in Standard, Sport, and Sport Plus but saw the best comparisons in Sport Plus so opted to show these Dynos. This would be real world situations as when wanting performance, you put the car in performance mode! Our baseline was 404awhp and 455ft/lbs to the wheels on a Mustang Dyno. With the exhaust we picked up a quality 16/16 gain to the wheels! The one part we really focused on here was the sound. The customer actually had another exhaust system on the car previous and had to remove it because of the intensive drone.
Our next test was comparing our new complete YPipe to the stock YPipe before the throttle body. This throttle body is the same size as the CTT TB we use on our 996TT and 997TT upgrade kits. The stock YPipe is a 2 piece (halfs) plasic Y design that is smooth on the inside. The bad part about the stock one is it goes from a 78mm ID at the throttlebody down to a appx 2inch 51mm diameter Y split which then goes to rubber boost hoses that expand under pressure. Both of these are a power robber! If you retain the stock design and stock diameter hoses, YOU CANNOT GAIN power no matter if the YPipe is cast or plastic. This is why we made a COMPLETE YPipe kit which retains a 3inch aluminum design all the way to the factory end piece connections.
So below you can see our dyno in standard mode showing the car with the stock Ypipe and our big YPipe kit. These are huge gains throughout the ENTIRE rpm band which is huge. Dyno proven, this is not something to see, its something you can feel. The more airflow you get into that throttlebody the more HP you will gain. Eliminating the rubber hoses which expand causing pressure fluctuation, you will gain power. This is the design behind out YPipe kit.