welcome to the first ever /TUNED Tuner Car
Shootout. We decided that this year rather
than simply drive and show the cars we'd
put them head-to-head in a closed rRoad
and a racetrack we brought five tuner
cars between $30,000 and $300,000 and we're
gonna duke it out to find out which tuner
did it best. Ii'll be testing how the cars
drive on the street with a closed
section of the stunning highway 74 south
of Palm Springs. Rolex GT champion
Leh Keen will push the cars to their
limits at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway a
2.7 mile 17-turn road-course. Lee and iI
will then rank the cars based on style,
value, drivability on the road and at the
limit, and most importantly, lap time for
all the categories. Bbut lap time there
can be no ties,
meaning we rank the cars in each
category and assign points according to
rank. For this competition there are only
two rules: the car must be street-legal
registered and insured for road use and
the car must run a DOT road-legal set
of tires. And now, our winner with the
fastest lap time of the competition, this
2007 porsche 911 turbo by BBI Autosport
of Huntington Beach California.
We couldn't have a tuner car shootout
without inviting the subject of our
first ever episode of /TUNED, BBI Autosport
they have brought out something very
special to this competition.
This is a 2007 porsche 911 turbo which
has been converted to rear wheel drive.
But that's just the beginning.
It spins to 9000 rpm, makes over 600
wheel horsepower on its lowest boost
setting, it has a Hollinger six-speed
sequential gearbox out of a 911 cup car.
This is by far the gnarliest 911
I've ever driven climbing a mountain
in BBi's latest maddest creation this
car is a tuner dream and i'll tell you
why because it's for a dream customer
when you take a tuning shop like maybe I
with background in racing porsches and a
customer gives you a literal blank check
and says bill me what you build yourself
that is a dream project right there
this car left the factory with 420
all-wheel-drive horsepower it now makes
600 horse power to the wheels and only
the rear wheels the engine is a 3.8
liter
based on the 911 gt3 monir but with
turbos added they're not huge turbos are
designed for a wide power band but
they're on low boost for our test and
we're talking about 600 wheel horsepower
the owner of this car the Commissioner
of build own mclaren Ferraris most of
today's extreme supercars and he asked
for something that was the raws most
visceral experience that money could buy
or in this case build and so this engine
in the back is very similar to jeff
schwartz Pikes Peak winning engine in
fact it's almost exactly the same
because it's based on the gt3 engine it
actually reps the 8500 RPM even though
the tag stops at eight
and you may notice how change here to
thirty thousand dollar Hollinger
straight cut six meet sequential gearbox
and that is what makes this feel like a
race car on the street
the drive it use the clocks for first
and second here and use the clutch for
all your downshifting but above second
here you have shipped without the clutch
and without lifting off the throttle in
fact you have to stay on the power
otherwise the car will get very very
angry with you and when you do shift it
to get fire like like real proper fire
it cuts the timing but it doesn't cut
the fuel so you have better throttle
response the fuel ignites and the
exhaust and shoot fire out the back
but sometimes it takes terrible sound
if you're not on it and I mean really on
gearbox get a little bit unhappy the car
has the full street cup chassis kit
which is this roll bar back here
completely changed the suspension
geometry with cop car front fenders so
you can get a 10-inch wide tire the
front grip your name that jrz shocks was
a very high-end track spec unit but
believe it or not this isn't built as a
racecar this was built as a canyon car
so here we are on the arrow front
they've got a gt3 front bumper a GT two
rear bumper and a gt3 RS rear wing which
is it's all Porsche factory stuff by
mixing and matching a little bit you end
up with a car that has a very aggressive
yet cohesive look it doesn't look super
tuner e it looks like it
want to come out of the factory
open
alright
really really quick really quick
all the breaks really just shove me into
the harnesses feel so light it's not a
particularly light car by four standard
600 pounds heavier than a cup car but
it's only a couple of seconds a lap off
a cup cars face part thanks to the
Hoosier do t legal slick tyres down
sides there are a couple by race star
standards it's fairly compliance by
street Mars and pretty step
if I was on laguna seca right now the
car would be right at home
you think by removing the front drive
train that it would get super super
sketchy that's sort of true it-it-it
bite certainly not Road speeds you have
to be going to track face
haha but this thing has a very advanced
racing base traction control system not
the stock system that's gone standalone
traction control and it's a really
really advanced system which would
really really help you keep things in
line and without it i'd imagine this
card would earn that Widowmaker nickname
that we all simultaneously love and are
definitely afraid of
but to put this much turbocharged power
through the rear wheels only in the 911
and have it be this responsive this easy
to drive and not not particularly scary
like deficits
even the sequential shifter which I
thought was a pain in the ass just 10
minutes ago is really growing on me boy
this is a very special thing this car it
should be special because it's by far
the most expensive barbie on here how
about you say you're looking at about
250 250 grand now that does include
997 turbo but that's not the disease
that
Jordan busy grandma goodbye you ferrari
458 mclaren but I don't know man you
wanted to be raw ass dog at the bulb
BMW may have the patents on ultimate
driving machine
but on a strictly factual basis
I think they've me I has been you can't
possibly imagine what it's like to drive
this thing plate or no plate
this feels like a racecar the sheer
violence and acceleration will boost
kicks in
it's a Wilder ride as I've ever seen
with its racing clutch straight cut
gears it's a handful on the street so
we're only giving it a six set of 15 for
drivability but it looks the jam so it
gets a full five points for style
I can't wait to see what we can do with
this thing on the track
we're in the bi-turbo monster don't know
what to call this thing it's a monster
but it's not
the Porsche no surprise was my favorite
car
I can't believe this is the streetcar
the really impressive thing was the
market charge control system that kind
of power rear wheel drive you need
something to kind of help you out but it
wasn't too intrusive at all did exactly
what i wanted to so that complete
package was really impressive a lot of
grip a lot of power a lot of greats
a beast a lot of everything but it puts
it all together
years of all
it was kind of one of the most more
extreme builds it also ran flawlessly
had zero issues actually had the air
conditioner on at one point
the chassis stability through the shocks
geometry everything is right on morning
this thing is really a rocket but it's
not scary to drive a call the Widowmaker
than 30 i mean those cars are super
hairy dress you get that car actually
without that trash control system i
think would be a couple seconds slower
just because managing that wheelstand
will be nearly impossible second arguing
you're trying to manage seven or fire
just to the rear tires and that's
difficult to do
I want the balance the front is always
every sometimes in the 911
you really gotta work with the front
to get it i think the traffic control
makes that are all the other pieces come
together in the right way but the
traffic controllers keep that Olson
should we really be surprised at the BBI
Autosport porsche 911 turbo one the
track competition outright probably not
it has the best power-to-weight ratio
the stickiest tires the biggest wing and
leaking are racing driver has 12 GT
championships behind the wheel of a 911
we put on an absolute clinic for us at
the track popping cracking and flaming
his way to a one-minute 53 second lap
time the third fastest street car lap
ever recorded at this track earning BBI
Autosport of full 50 points by setting
the benchmark for the track portion of
our shootout lee also awarded 12 out of
15 points for drivability at the limit
even though I personally have no idea
how he set a lap that fast on the road
Hollinger sequential gearbox made
driving in traffic and around town very
difficult and the car doesn't really
like stop and go but the power is insane
it feels like a real race car seats are
comfy and the AC cranks so it's not all
bank
I awarded at six at a 15-4 road matters
as far as style goes I think this thing
looks tough as nails purposeful and yet
pretty we unanimously gave it top marks
there with a full five points out of 54
style value is calculated by taking the
lap time and factoring in the cost of
the car as compared to the Mustang the
cheapest car on track this Porsche is by
far the most expensive car here but it's
also the fastest the dollars spent per
second isn't as good as it gets but it
still got itself a nine out of 15 for
value even at 300 grand at the end of
the day
nothing could keep up with this Porsches
pace it looks or its war can exhaust
note it was the lightest car and the
most powerful and it made all of us
happy to be in its presence at the end
of the shoot every day this is what I
chose the drive back to the hotel and
with a total score of 82 points out of a
hundred the BBI Autosport porsche 997
turbo is the overall winner of the tune
tuner shootout
it was our lap time and style categories
outright and even at a very high cost of
entry
it's still return the strong value
proposition given its insane pace