Hey everybody,
Yeah, the car is doing great. Its daily-driven around SoCal these days and sees the occasional auto-x too. The cooling system is /right on the edge/ of being sufficient and was really pretty complicated to make. We started out with just the fender coolers (with a fan on each) and it really wasn't enough to keep the car cool, so putting the center section was a bit of a "hail mary". Luckily it worked and we haven't seen high temps since. My brother is working on getting the car out to a track day at Willow Springs soon and then we'll *really* know if we did a decent job with the cooling system.
Otherwise though, the car has been flawless: get in, fires right up, and purrs like a kitten all over town until the turbo kicks in and rips your head off. The 912 is such a comfortable car to drive, a real sweetheart, and a huge departure from my NA 3.0L 911S... the STi motor is so much more nimble, lightweight and smooth, where my S is binary, static, accelerating and decelerating all that NA rotating mass.
We're a bit limited in performance by the shorter wheelbase and small tires, but my brother has been learning to hustle it around the AX courses. He's working to get a limited slip put in soon so that all that STi power makes its way into the speedo and not converted into tire smoke.
You can follow Mike and the car on Instagram here:
https://www.instagram.com/912rsti/
Thanks for asking about it, and holler at us if you have another questions!
- m