A Porsche 911 Type 996 Carrera 4S, late model, registered in ‘04, fitted with a high-performance kit. Stock output is 320 ps, but the kit bumps it up to 345 ps.
Drivetrain: AWD
Engine: 3.6L flat-six, DOHC, 6-speed manual
Max output: 345 ps @ 6800 rpm
Max torque: 37.7 kgm @ 4750 rpm
Length x width x height: 4435 x 1830 x 1295 mm
Wheelbase: 2350 mm
Curb weight: 1520 kg
It’s naturally aspirated, but as a 4S it gets the same wide body, stronger brakes, and retuned suspension as the turbo model. The AWD system uses a multi-plate viscous coupling that shifts torque to the front axle anywhere from 5% up to 40%.
I’d left this blog untouched for two years, and in that time an insane number of unpublished photos piled up. I hadn’t even developed most of them, so I spent a weekend wrestling with Lightroom, blasted through a batch of edits, and now I’m posting them all at once.
A record of a solo trip I took from 2016/05/01 to 2016/05/04, three nights and four days, leaving my wife behind to work while I wandered off on my own. There’s no real point to it. Just a bunch of photos below.
On the 1st I took the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Hiroshima. Since I’d be staying at @WINGS1685’s place in Kyoto, I wanted to bring a souvenir, so I arrived at Tokyo Station about two hours before departure to buy the requested Toshimaya Kizahashi… or so I’d planned. I’d gotten the Shinkansen time wrong and couldn’t buy it. I’d originally booked the 13:00 departure, but since the night cruise to visit Miyajima at my hotel required dinner starting at 17:00, I’d changed it to 11:00 so I’d arrive around 16:00 — and then completely forgot I’d done that. So off to Hiroshima I went, empty-handed, getting an earful over chat the whole way.
