where are the Porsche cayenne expo builds?

[bjowett]

My wife drove a late vin# 04 V8 Treg for over 7 years. Working on the thing was not fun, and a few rather large expensive problems later in its life, despite low mileage and great maintenance, had us send it down the road. With that said, it is probably the best do it all crossover vehicle platform around. They effortlessly cruise for miles at triple digits, run twisty roads, and yet tackle a nice medium rocky trail w/o issue. We all know the saying... Jack of all trades, master of none.... this Jack is quite proficient at many things. The Porsche version is actually cheaper to fix and maintain... VW prices on the same parts were frequently 30%+ more expensive.

My vote.... find a Cayenne with the diff lock, swaybar disconnect, and rear tire carrier. Build a nice coil spring suspension for it. 17" wheels with 32"ish AT tires. Get some 4.56 geared diffs from the Toureg. Winch, skids.... enjoy.

 

[Cole]

To add a little something productive to the thread.

Here is mine in "Winter mode" Factory 18" turbo wheels painted satin black. Yakima rack mounted to the factory rails. I've been looking for a good set of 265/65/18s to try out this summer and see how it does on some trails.

Factory hitch has a 600 ish pound rating, which was enough to carry this KLR650 home when I bought it. The auto-leveling air suspension was nice with the KLR on the back.

Factory tie down straps and rubber floor mat in the back are great for hauling engine blocks and whatever else you want to. One of the two factory air tanks is under the rear floor there. Compressor is mounted in the passenger side rocker panel.

Pulls my track car on the flatbed better than any tow rig I've had. It would pull an expo trailer fine. Tow rating is right around 7,800lbs. Since these were designed to be insanely stable they are way more stable and stop better than most full size tow rigs.

(You will also notice that this is not some insane massive estate home neighborhood)

Also plenty DIY friendly. So far I have done the coolant pipes, rear driveshaft, ECU swap, BPV upgrade, Lower CTTs control arms, oil changes, headlight work, etc all in my home garage.

Here are the front lower control arms. The dirty one is a "Turbo", "S", and "Cayenne" control arm. The clean one is a "Turbo S" control arm. The bushing material is more durable and the center steel just a touch different. You can see they are heavy duty steel. The replacement arms were about $250 each from the dealer.

 

[Cole]

Here is the new "Turbo S" bushing compared to the standard arm. (the replacements are the same price)

The hole is in the same exact spot on both arms even though it does not look like it.

Here is what happens to the rear driveshaft. They seem to last about 60k. Although the part number has been updated several times now so the replacements may last even longer. A complete replacement is about $500. DIY fix is about $80.

 

[Cole]

For the fun of it last summer I took my stock Cayenne to the Porsche AutoCross. I beat 27 of the 49 "proper Porsches" and other cars that were there.

 

[Cole]

I have a pile of tube here that I ordered awhile back thinking I would make a front bumper protector, rear bumper slider and rock rails for it. Just have not gotten around to it.

There is actually enough room behind the grill for at least 2 full size 6" KC lights.

You can see the little tabs in the bumper in this picture. Those are for the tow hooks. This is also the end of the frame rails. (which are MUCH larger than you would expect). I was planning on making a tube bumper that mounted in these holes and just followed the curve of the bumper. You could take the lower part of the front bumper off and get a much better approach angle. Not Jeep like, but better.

 

[Cole]

As long as I'm bombing this thread with pictures. I have not "really" wheeled my Cayenne yet. Mostly because I own some off road motorcycles and a Dodge truck. But this thing is great for long distance travel and I know some of you spend your time building a rig and never really travel with it.

So, I've done the coast from Mexico to San Francisco...

Death Valley.

Top of the Rockies.

...and a ton of places not even photo worthy.

Great dog hauler!!

 

[GroupSe7en]

Cole -very cool indeed.

Nice autocross run!

I am highly envious of your turbo! Not to mention your garage...

I'll get off my ******** and get some pics on here as well.

We went looking at teardrops to use as the basis for an ExPo trailer yesterday.
The problem is that the trailers were at an RV dealer, right next to the Sprinter van conversions...
Oh, my aching head. Now, we are talking about doing a Sprinter, and using the Pepper as a DD.

My life is not my own. Maybe, with luck and a lottery win, we'll do both.
Maybe I should start playing the lottery.

Cheers,
Mark

 

[CORDSIG79]

Ah ship!!! Coles one of the majore contributors to some other threads and a P!G trauma surgeon.

Glad to see you here Cole >

 

[CORDSIG79]

I am running 265/70/17 on mine with steel suspension......isnt that like a 32 tire......but without lift....the TDI TRegs, which are awesome in their own regards, tend to rub at this due an air intake at the wheel wheel.

I rarely get any rub unless a full wheel turn.

It will be a year before I start flirting with the lift and bigger wheels..........and that would be as far as I take mine. In place of a jeep in the drive way I have my hunting/camping/weekend hauler ready for life, again i hand a wrangler XJ at the same time I bought the PIG and it fell apart and was in no way capable as a DD.

I would say I envy the other top Range rover style tents(are these universal with other roof racks?) I see but have always wanted a tear drop too, so good to see another cayenne owner already doing it...I also wondering about a trailer set up with grill/smoker/and just putting my old wake tower speakers on the trailer.......tailgate anyone?

 

[khronus79]

I'm loving this thread, my brother-in-law is seriously considering buying a Cayenne and we are closely following every post here.
I just saw a series of the 2007 transsyberia videos on youtube and the cayenne looks impressive, those guys beat the crap out of it and the truck just soldiers on, here is the series:

 

[khronus79]

Here's the last 5:

 

[khronus79]

here's also an interesting video of a Cayenne vs a Gwagen, seems to be in German:

 

[GroupSe7en]

khronus79 - thanks for posting!

 

[khronus79]

I was doing a bit of research and saw this info posted on clubtouareg:

Tires up to 31.8" diameter (265-wide) can be mounted on V6 and V8 Touaregs without routine rubbing. In relatively rare circumstances, the tire may lightly rub on an extreme turn.

Assuming that the VW and the Porsche are very closely related, then the Cayenne shares the same tire limitations that the Land Rover LR3 has(I own 1), here's a list of tires that fit the LR3 taken from here: http://johnsonrods.com/johnson_rods_2_004.htm

[B][U]Tire Brand 	   Type 	 Size 	    Diameter 	Price[/U][/B]
Toyo Open Country AT 	        265/65/R18 	31.56 	$164 	
Firestone Destination AT 	265/65/R18 	31.56 	$168 	
Cooper Discoverer ATR 	AT 	265/65/R18 	31.56 	$169 	
Bridegstone Dueler A/T Revo2    265/65/R18 	31.56 	$199 	
Kelly Safari TSR 	AT     	265/65/R18 	31.56 	$206 	
Goodyear Silent Armor  	        265/65/R18 	31.56 	$219 	
BFGoodrich A-T T/A KO  	        265/65/R18 	31.56 	$236

There are other sizes on there that will satisfy the diameter limitations, but are wider than the 265 suggested by clubtouareg, lots of 285/60/18s.

 

[CORDSIG79]

http://www.clubtouareg.com/forums/f44/up-up-and-away-spring-spacers-are-in-52562.html

Spacer section in Club Touareg.......good info for steel suspensions and lifts up to 2.5 inches I believe.

(this will work on Cayennes with steel suspension) some of the V8'sand most of the V6's.