My car's purpose spans daily with baby and road trips with bike rack all the way to track.
Love:
-Ssv1 with race cats and tune (have done the CA smog thing a few times, driving around for a while on stock headers and tune, HUGE difference)
-4.10 (lot of debate on this on the forum)
-Ohlins R&T, especially running them on softer settings (even on track) with more flat ride-ish springs
-Not yet installed, but I think I will love Coolerworx Pro shifter
-Schroth Quick Fit Pro - I'm on stock seats and will stay on them for a while, so this thing is an absolute game changer to keep me planted. I also use the Simpson hybrid HANS with it (which can also be used with the stock seatbelt).
In between love and hate:
-AJ Hartman delete panel. This one is more toward love because I'm tall and gained headroom space, supposedly also dropped ~32lbs from the top of the car (although can't say I really noticed it), but, it's a pretty coin, I broke a few tabs on b/c pillars getting the old liner out and getting to the sunroof, I haven't fully sourced the new liner yet, with sunroof glass gone that eliminates a mounting point for the gorilla suction cups and mount I used for the cam. So it was a lot more work/time/$ than I anticipated.
-ST40 front kit, (I haven't installed the rear yet, sitting somewhere in the garage from when I bought a full set used a few years ago), but I experienced knockback on track before I swapped my front wheel bearings (none since then), I don't actually use the quick pad swap feature because I run PFC08 year round (and truthfully I can prob swap pads just as quickly on the stock caliper), so I'm still getting to grips with this kit. I'm leaning toward "love", sticking with it and installing the rear kit as well (retains parking brake), and running it, as the car is seeing more track time, decent pads in the right shapes/sizes for older Porsche models can be had from FCP, 355 rings (both front and rear on the kit) last a long time (fronts have seen a lot of abuse so far).
Not so love:
-Eventuri - sound-wise I can't hear it over the exhaust and the diff, power wise I'm not sure there is anything extra. Positive is that it makes getting to PS fluid easier
.-E85 kit - while there are plenty of ethanol gas stations within 10mins and paying 25% less for fuel is nice, I have to always do some math to keep it under E50 or less with my mods and stock injectors (which are not straightforward plug and play to retune and rescale new injectors). If (which is unlikely) I end up doing a true CSL box and cams, and keep stock injectors, I'll have to run even lower ethanol %, since the other mods will require more fuel and will put stock injectors closer to their max even without any ethanol. Then it's a rabbit hole for new injectors, fuel pump, wideband o2, retune, then either swapping injectors for smog every 2 years or getting a new "stock" tune to rescale the injectors. Anyway.
-SS oversized S2 - I am a rasp guy, so prefer the stock s2 here (my full system is ssv1, race cats, sport ss muffler). Butt dyno is very subjective, I think the oversized s2 does add a few hp, but oh well.
-Shifter and levers. I've tried a few, with all refreshed shifter bushings, etc, they all feel like cheese compared to my s2k. Hopefully I didn't jump the gun putting the Coolerworx Pro chassis mounted shifter in the love category even though I have not installed it yet. Loved the action of CAE/RTD that I tried in other cars.
Might add few other things if I think of something.
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