Hello everyone,
I recently bought 987.1 Cayman S, 6 spd manual, strictly for track use and eventually competitive racing. I thought this would be a good medium to document the build and track day information to share with others. I bought the car with 48,000 miles from a previous owner who only used it to get some groceries so it is fairly new for a 10 year old car. I did some research as to the challenges of tracking the first gen cayman and have taken some steps to band aid these issues.
Before my first track day:
- Hawk DTC 70 F and Hawk DTC 60 R brake pads
- Stainless Steel brake lines
- Motul RBF600
- GT3 ducts
- TuneRS 3 quart Accusump system with remote oil filter
- Oil cooler
- Mantis 2L oil sump
- 996 oil-air seperators in sump
- Custom trans cooler with Tilton pump
- Custom exhaust and punched-out cats
- Motorsport AOS (996, removed secondary air pump)
- Enlarged the front bumper inlets and modified the radiator ducts to size
- Added 3rd radiator
- New OEM spark plugs
- New BMC air filter
- Wheel stud conversion
So it took me a while to get all these items installed in the car. Considering how absolutely frustrating it is to work near the engine in this car I feel like I did a pretty good job not setting it on fire. The accusump was mounted in the trunk along with the filter to have easy access to it. I made some custom lines to include a Setrab 25-row oil cooler in the rear bumper along with transmission cooler. I chose this location since there is plenty of space and an opening in the bumper relieve the air that flows through the coolers. Some obstacles with this includes the fact that the exhaust is sitting inches in front of them. Another issue I came across with finding the proper fittings to rig the custom trans cooler. There the ports used to drain and fill are used to pull and return oil. Installing the AOS was most likely the most painful part of this whole process. I opted to completely removed the air pump. This came with a check engine light and an idle that makes it sound like a 70's cammed camaro lol. However, once it warmed up it subsided. I used aluminum sheet metal and rivets to cut and enlarge the OEM ducts to feed more air to the OEM radiators.
I recently bought 987.1 Cayman S, 6 spd manual, strictly for track use and eventually competitive racing. I thought this would be a good medium to document the build and track day information to share with others. I bought the car with 48,000 miles from a previous owner who only used it to get some groceries so it is fairly new for a 10 year old car. I did some research as to the challenges of tracking the first gen cayman and have taken some steps to band aid these issues.
Before my first track day:
- Hawk DTC 70 F and Hawk DTC 60 R brake pads
- Stainless Steel brake lines
- Motul RBF600
- GT3 ducts
- TuneRS 3 quart Accusump system with remote oil filter
- Oil cooler
- Mantis 2L oil sump
- 996 oil-air seperators in sump
- Custom trans cooler with Tilton pump
- Custom exhaust and punched-out cats
- Motorsport AOS (996, removed secondary air pump)
- Enlarged the front bumper inlets and modified the radiator ducts to size
- Added 3rd radiator
- New OEM spark plugs
- New BMC air filter
- Wheel stud conversion
So it took me a while to get all these items installed in the car. Considering how absolutely frustrating it is to work near the engine in this car I feel like I did a pretty good job not setting it on fire. The accusump was mounted in the trunk along with the filter to have easy access to it. I made some custom lines to include a Setrab 25-row oil cooler in the rear bumper along with transmission cooler. I chose this location since there is plenty of space and an opening in the bumper relieve the air that flows through the coolers. Some obstacles with this includes the fact that the exhaust is sitting inches in front of them. Another issue I came across with finding the proper fittings to rig the custom trans cooler. There the ports used to drain and fill are used to pull and return oil. Installing the AOS was most likely the most painful part of this whole process. I opted to completely removed the air pump. This came with a check engine light and an idle that makes it sound like a 70's cammed camaro lol. However, once it warmed up it subsided. I used aluminum sheet metal and rivets to cut and enlarge the OEM ducts to feed more air to the OEM radiators.