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Re: For 997TT owners ...
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CGT1178 said:
i discovered something strage in 997TT which is if you pull the side brake one or two tick (side brake light on) the car will transfer from 4WD to 2WD (for more whp).. try it but becarefull with the 1st and 2nd gear
This has been mentioned on the forums before. Have you tried it yourself.
Re: For 997TT owners ...
The TT was designed to be a 4 wheel drive car. If you manage to convert it to a 2 wheel drive by activating your emergency brake (a notch or two), I can guarantee that you will not be getting a car with C2S characteristic and if anything you now have a mutant which will be behaving unlike a 4WD or a 2WD. IMHO, you car may behave radically when pushed to the limit and you will not be able to handle it as if you would in a regular C2S. I know what you are thinking, you are in lust with a nimble feel of a 2 wheel drive and yet love the crushing power of the TT 
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CGT1178 said:
i discovered something strage in 997TT which is if you pull the side brake one or two tick (side brake light on) the car will transfer from 4WD to 2WD (for more whp)
This has been mentioned on the forums before. Have you tried it yourself.
yes
Re: For 997TT owners ...
You should be able to apply the hand brake without concerns about possibly damaging the car, right?
WRONG.
The C2/S C4/s manual (can't find my Turbo manual) misleadingly calls it a "hand brake" and warns not to apply it unless the car is at a full stop.
When did it change from an "emergency brake" to a "hand brake" and shouldn't it REALLY now be called a "parking brake?"
WRONG.
The C2/S C4/s manual (can't find my Turbo manual) misleadingly calls it a "hand brake" and warns not to apply it unless the car is at a full stop.
When did it change from an "emergency brake" to a "hand brake" and shouldn't it REALLY now be called a "parking brake?"
Oct 16, 2013 8:13:37 PM
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Re: For 997TT owners ...
Leawood911:
RC - with your new turbo S is there any way to force it into RWD like described here? FWIW I have not tried this with my 997TT and doubt I would. In a related question - how do you like not having an emergency brake any longer?
No and I wouldn't recommend it. There has never been an emergency brake, just a hand brake or parking brake (as described by MMD).
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Oct 17, 2013 3:17:35 PM
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Regardless of what you call it - you know what I mean. If all the other brakes fail you better believe it is an emergency brake. Rally drivers could not drive without one and I have used it for fun on the streets, dirt and ice many times. The new car basically has no hand brake or emergency brake. Just a parking brake button that is used once the car is stopped. Is that correct or can the parking brake button be used in emergencies when the car is moving and the other brakes have failed? Unlikely I know, just curious. I would feel like something is missing to my right.
Oct 17, 2013 3:38:49 PM
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Leawood911:
Regardless of what you call it - you know what I mean. If all the other brakes fail you better believe it is an emergency brake. Rally drivers could not drive without one and I have used it for fun on the streets, dirt and ice many times. The new car basically has no hand brake or emergency brake. Just a parking brake button that is used once the car is stopped. Is that correct or can the parking brake button be used in emergencies when the car is moving and the other brakes have failed? Unlikely I know, just curious. I would feel like something is missing to my right.
Oh you are so wrong on so many levels here... 
If you need to use the handbrake in a certain driving situation, you did a lot of things wrong before that.
Unless you are of course a rally driver with a FWD car and you want to use the handbrake deliberately (which doesn't make any sense on a public street under ANY driving conditions).
Btw: The "parking button" works even when the car rolls or drives but I would really keep that for absolute emergencies only because you cannot control the amount of braking force applied. It is like throwing an anchor. 
It does not work while you accelerate and as far as I know, you need to press the button a bit longer for an emergency braking (I haven't tried ).
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Re: For 997TT owners ...
What is does do, is disengage itself when you start to move off and you have a seatbelt on. So even though it's in the wrong place, if you forget to take it off (like I sometimes do in my Volvo hearse) it'll disengage. So I doubt pressing it when moving would have any effect - but haven't tried it!
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Re: For 997TT owners ...
RC:
If you need to use the handbrake in a certain driving situation, you did a lot of things wrong before that.
Unless you are of course a rally driver with a FWD car and you want to use the handbrake deliberately (which doesn't make any sense on a public street under ANY driving conditions).
The handbrake is a great way to flamboyantly park a hire car 
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Oct 17, 2013 7:42:37 PM
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RC - When going down the road at 70 mph+ the best way to do a 180 degree turn is to lock up the rears with the hand brake, get it into a slide, push in the clutch, engage first, wait to face the other way and nail it. Great fun! Used to be a standard move for all my cars in High school. Ask Gladstone - he used to sit on the passenger side while we did this on country highways at night. Nothing wrong about it, just abusive to the tires. Trust me, I do nothing wrong in my cars and I do know what I am doing - just good fun. Not certain I would do this with any of the new 911 though since there is no more hand brake. Hence my question.
PS would love to find you at a go cart track sometime - my girls could even race your son.
Oct 17, 2013 8:24:26 PM
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"country highways at night" really! Come on, any road, any time as long as there was no impeding traffic and the slightest of reason why we might have been travelling in the wrong direction; then boom bootlegger turn time!
It never even concerned me as much as some high speed runs and the cloverleaf on ramp loading of the rear suspension through acceleration to "help" a crude v8 become a master of high speed cornering (almost nightmare worthy, but I don't sweat the little things that have failed to kill me)
The "emergency brake" was very handy to me last 'spring' when I was travelling up North and actually got caught out on some Icy roads. Thought I was the Ice and Snow master, but by May I must have let my guard down. Long and short of it, I slid into a median. Then had to call a tow truck. Tow truck got me out of the median and tore one of my hydraulic brake lines.
With a bit of German Stubborness, I wasn't going to let a few hours from home stop me when I knew that between the transmission, the hand brake and the few remaining uses of the real brakes; I would get home just fine. Oh, and I did!
Oct 19, 2013 11:04:47 PM
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Re: For 997TT owners ...
Leawood911:
RC - When going down the road at 70 mph+ the best way to do a 180 degree turn is to lock up the rears with the hand brake, get it into a slide, push in the clutch, engage first, wait to face the other way and nail it. Great fun! Used to be a standard move for all my cars in High school. Ask Gladstone - he used to sit on the passenger side while we did this on country highways at night. Nothing wrong about it, just abusive to the tires. Trust me, I do nothing wrong in my cars and I do know what I am doing - just good fun. Not certain I would do this with any of the new 911 though since there is no more hand brake. Hence my question.
PS would love to find you at a go cart track sometime - my girls could even race your son.
My son is 10 years old and while he loves cars, he's not much of a go kart fan, for whatever reason. He always does the 2nd or 3rd place, maybe this is a reason (great results in a group of 10-12 drivers) but I can see that he wants to win and if he doesn't... 
As soon as he is 16, I will put him behind a steering wheel of a real car, there are training courses where he can drive at that age. Other than that, he needs to be 17 to be able to get his driver's license and up to 18 years of age, he needs to be accompanied by an adult. Not sure I'm brave enough for that.
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