FREE Porsche Panamera Exhaust Mod to make it sound louder

For Panameras with “SPORT EXHAUST”, “Sport Chrono” options and “Turbo” models ONLY.

This mod will ONLY make you exhaust sound louder up to 2000 RPMs with stock mufflers. And its FREE. This only works on Turbo, GTS, models with Sport Chrono (PLUS) package and cars with SPORT Exhaust. But

Warning! Regualar V8 cars with Sport Exhaust muffler will suffer from loss of backpressure thus loosing Horsepower. It will make a deeper sound but you will loose HorsePower. Turbo models may actually gain a little since this valve is usually activated by the car computer when you switch to SPORT PLUS to help the exhaust flow better.

All you have to do is to

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remove a vacuum tube out of an exhaust actuator to make the exhaust sound louder. Basically by removing the vacuum tube shown here, you are opening a new passage for the exhaust gases to escape. This flap opens up the inside exhaust pipes that Panamera uses when you switch the drive mode to SPORT Plus. It will make your Porsche sound a little deeper every time you accelerate.
The point of this thing is that its FREE and if you get tired of the drone, just go back and reconnect the vacuum tube.

NOTE: You dont have to disconnect both sides. All you have to do is just disconnect the driver side vacuum tube and both mufflers will open the flap.

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5 Favorite car seats / booster seats for Porsche Panamera

Well, being around I see that lots of Porsche enthusiasts are switching from regular 911s, etc to Panameras because they want to carry kids with them. They either go with a Cayenne or with a panamera. I have seen many questions being asked about what cars seat to use in your Panamera. Well, here is some info.

So, what car seat do I use in my Panamera?

Well, there is no car seat out there that will fit a Panamera perfectly because of the angle that the rear seat is installed in. Its set at a much steeper angle than any other car. Problem is that “leveling bubble” will not perfectly set in place without putting something under the car seat base.

I have seen people use the “pool noodle” to raise the base. Make sure you get one without the hole in it. Others used polyethylene foam (has a construction spec to it) to make a filler for the seat, wrapped it in felt, than the base sat on that. You can get one called Diono Sit-Rite if you dont want to bother with the noodles. Picture Here:

People have also used Maxi Cosi Prezi without anything under the base and they got the bubble on a level. But its very tough it get the seat out of the base.

One member has been using Diono Radian RXT. Here are a few pics

ECARO ProRIDE convertible car seat is another popular choice along Panamera owners as well as Nuna Pipa which is one of the lightest and strongest out there. Here is a quick video of the NunaPipa and a small article about it.

Booster Seats?

Someone recommended “CLEK” booster seats. They have a rigid “latch” system that attaches the frame of the seat directly to the latch points in the rear seats. These seats are built like a rock and fit tight as drum in the back of the Panamera. The Cleks actually can recline or slide forward on their frame while still connected to the LATCH points. Here are some photos:

Others use RECARO ProBooster seat and ISOFIX by Maxi-Cosi seats with great results. I myself use Graco booster seat with great results as well. I think the angle of that particular booster seat is way to high. But it fits very good.

PanameraClub.com is now InsaneGarage.com

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To you guys who are just curious why we moved the website to a new domain I have an answer. We had Laura from Porsche.com email us that our domain Panameraclub.com was in violation of their trademark laws.

So we had no choice but to open up a new domain “InsaneGarage.com” and continue our work. I didnt want to kill this website completely even though there is not much support here from any readers.

I will keep this website up and running for next few months. We will see then. Website does get about 1000 visitors / month but I dont see any support. Anyways, lets hope the information her will help out.

‘2019 All electric 4 door Porsche 717 – battery-powered Tesla rival

Porsche is busy preparing a battery-powered rival to the successful all-electric Tesla Model S – and CAR has details of this project, provisionally badged the Porsche 717.

It’s being developed on the Volkswagen group’s latest MSB architecture under development for the Panamera Mk2 and the next Bentley Continental.

If all goes according to plan, we can expect a sporty four-door, four-seater with clear 911 overtones, wrapped in a more compact footprint than a Panamera’s. Our artist’s impression above shows the kind of direction being explored by Porsche’s design department, according to our sources. Sounds like the 911 cookie cutter hasn’t run out yet…

Porsche 717: a Tesla fighter from Stuttgart

The sports car brand already offers two plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs): one based on the facelifted Cayenne SUV and the other one on the Panamera. On an even loftier level, there is of course the now-sold-out limited-edition 918 hypercar. The logical next step therefore is a Porsche battery-electric vehicle, or BEV.

Now that the company is part of VW, it is no longer able to go and develop such new projects solo, so the power of the group is being flexed to make the Porsche 717 leap from feasibility study to factory floor.

Ground hugging and emphatically dynamic in appearance, the car that is rumoured to be badged 717 is definitely not an SUV or a crossover, CAR hears.
The battery tech underpinning the electric Porsche.

While the flat-bottom Tesla features a long and wide monolithic battery pack which double-up as floorpan and structural reinforcement, the lower H-point and the sports car stance postulated by Porsche would call for a so-called topologic battery installation.

Instead of a single, square-mattress-shaped energy cell which is relatively easy to cool and to connect, the battery arrangement proposed for the 717 looks more like a mountain range with the centre tunnel acting as peak ridge, with a pair of tall bulkhead walls and smaller agglomerations in the sills, the footwell and the overhangs.

In total, a reported 108 battery pouches need to be accommodated by the body-in-white. All 717 models will feature 4wd, four-wheel torque vectoring and four-wheel steering. As a rule, there is one electric motor per axle which will either be steel-sprung or feature an electrically-controlled air suspension system.

When is the Porsche 717 going to be on sale?

It is hard to judge whether Porsche’s provisional launch date of early 2019 is realistic or wishful thinking. The same applies to the engineering concept which, according to one insider, is set to provide three different e-power stages rated at 400, 500 and 600bhp, reflecting the choice of power outputs available in the Model S. The average driving range target is in excess of 300 miles.

Together with the US specialist supplier Quantumspace, Porsche and sister brands VW and Audi are developing a new induction charge process designed to match the Tesla principle in duration and to beat it in convenience.