Any Dyno On The DB9 X?
Last week we had the luxury of working on a car that we do not see too often. One of our customers stopped by with his 06 Aston Martin DB9 for a Secondary Catbypass X-Pipe install. In just under 3 hours we completely transformed his car and gave it a new voice! Our Catbypass X-Pipe saves weight, adds power, and sounds amazing; it's a true triple threat. Take a listen to the short video we made while she was here! If you guys have any questions feel free to ask, if anyone is interested we do offer member discounts so please let me know! Here is what our customer had to say! Sounds amazing! Yet another great product. Any Dyno on the DB9 X? Yet another great product. Any Dyno on the DB9 X? They are really a great option, especially for the price! Unfortunately we did not get a chance to throw her on the dyno, I hope to get another in soon! 2013 Aston Martin DB9 optimized with a Fabspeed Secondary Catbypass X-Pipe to replace the restrictive and redundant Secondary Catalytic Converters. More power, more exhaust tone and no CEL!
It鈥檚 the kind of car we鈥檝e spent years clamoring for. If Americans will buy anything with a hatch, why not this? I鈥檝e been thinking about this, and I believe the Panamera Sport Turismo may be the low-key coolest Porsche you can buy right now. Porsche generally doesn鈥檛 make bad cars these days, but it also doesn鈥檛 really make weird cars anymore. The 911 is unimpeachable. The Panamera sedan is pretty established at this point. The 718 Boxster and Cayman are great, if perpetually underrated, especially since they went four-cylinder. The Macan and Cayenne look good and perform well鈥攁nd fulfill their money-printing purpose. But the Sport Turismo is the oddball. In a family of overachievers, it鈥檚 the kid that鈥檚 the most interesting to hang out with, the one that can tell you all about good indie hip-hop and manga and Netflix documentaries about murder cults that you should be watching. But like the rest of the fam, it鈥檚 a hell of an athlete and crazy smart to boot. 4. Believe it or not the body鈥檚 just as long and as wide as the Panamera sedan, but with a somewhat taller and more pronounced roofline to accommodate a larger hatchback area.
All the sheetmetal beyond the B-pillar is new, and it has five seats as opposed to the Panamera sedan鈥檚 four. So yeah, it鈥檚 not that different from the sedan, which is both good and bad. And it rides on the same platform as many of the larger Volkswagen Group cars, from the Audi A8 to the Bentley Continental GT. The car looks really sharp, in my estimation. The last Panamera was rightly dinged for its bulbous proportions, but the new car bears a much sleeker, cleaner design, one that wears the Porsche family front end rather well. I like the sedan but I also think its shape feels more natural as a wagon, so of the two this is the better-looking one. My tester was a Turbo, which is silly because all Porsches have turbos these days, but hey, marketing. It gets you a 4.0-liter 鈥渉ot V鈥?twin-turbo V8 beast of an engine pumping out 550 HP and 567 lb-ft of torque, the latter at just 1,960 RPM.
Porsche鈥檚 superb eight-speed PDK is your sole gearbox option; the manual Panamera died with the first-generation car. We鈥檒l discuss this in depth later, but like all Porsches, it鈥檚 not cheap. 194,000 for the most loaded Turbo S E-Hybrid Executive. See, the car I had isn鈥檛 even the most powerful Panamera you can buy. That would be the Turbo S E-Hybrid, due out this spring, which adds 918-style hybrid tech to the V8 to make a somewhat ungodly 680 HP. Having been enthralled by the turbo/hybrid combo on the new Acura NSX, I鈥檓 curious to try it, though I can鈥檛 realistically imagine you鈥檇 need much more than the Turbo鈥檚 550 HP. Being that this is a Porsche and all, let鈥檚 get right down to how it is to drive hard. And the answer is very well. There is a big difference between what I call Generic Luxury Sedan Fast鈥攜ou know, all flat turbo torque, no drama, no excitement鈥攁nd what the Panamera Turbo can do, which is deliver acceleration that is downright violent at times.