[Graustark]

I am likely confusing things, so can y'all share some clarity on all these "sport" modes?

Sport Chrono option w/ steering wheel dial. I am fairly clear on this one.

• Normal
• Sport
• Sport+

PSE / Porsche Sport Exhaust (previously an option, now standard inclusion). Makes exhaust sound louder and maybe does something for performance?

PASM's two modes for regular suspension (~comfort) vs sport suspension, which make the default suspension (middle of the road ride comfort between that gentle/normal and sport)

Sport button on center console - confused on if this exists at all. What options require its presence? Or included w/ every model. Or I'm confusing things and such a button does not exist.

thanks!

 

[JazzCatGab]

I have a 2019 base Cayman with the Sport Chrono and PASM. I think the center console button for Sport is standard on all. However, with Sport Chrono, you get additional degree of Sport settings. The manual has the difference nicely laid out in graphic. But the main thing you get with SC is the selector switch on the wheel that lets you select one of four settings: Normal, Sport, Sport +, and Individual where you select the features you like to use in specific situations. The newer cars with the standard PSE also have an enhanced sound, from all the compliments I get at PCA meetings. The Sport PSE setting with SC gives you the pops and crackles during engine braking. The Sport PSE in Sport+ gives you the enhanced sound with more effient use of fuel so you don't get the deceleration effects. There are valves on the exhaust pipe that are opened up when the Sport PSE is selected, which I can't help to think do release some back pressure and may minimally increase actual performance. As to PASM, on the base model, there is definitely differences in both Sport and Sport+ modes. For sportier models of the Cayman, there is SPASM that takes this even further, and lowers the car more than the SC version. Check out that link and it might help.

 

[phroenips]

I have a 2019 Cayman GTS 6MT with SPASM. No Sport button in the center console, only the dial/switch on the steering wheel

 

[don]

With the Sport Chrono Package you also get:

"PSM Sport" mode which is an in between mode for PSM on vs off. Press traction control button once to engage.

Anyone tried PSM Sport?

Instability control

Taking it to the limit, safely and surely: The new Sport mode in Porsche Stability Management helps ambitious Porsche drivers reach the very limits of vehicle control—and the pinnacle of driving pleasure.

newsroom.porsche.com

Porsche 718 Overview - Porsche Australia

www.porsche.com

 

[dreamer]

I haven’t and I wish I could understand it completely. So what I’m understanding is untouched/regular mode you get most traction control. In “Sport” which you get by pressing the traction control once quickly, you get less traction control and if it’s pushed again, the traction control is off completely. Is this correct?

 

[don]

Yes, that's my understanding but haven't tried it.

So I'm assuming PSM is same in Sport or Sport + unless PSM button is pressed.

 

[vhs]

With the Sport Chrono Package you also get:

"PSM Sport" mode which is an in between mode for PSM on vs off. Press traction control button once to engage.

Anyone tried PSM Sport?

That's my preferred way to roll. PSM in Sport mode and PASM in Sport chassis. I think PSM in Sport is the sweet spot, a little bit of assistance, but you can get a better sense of weight transfer and feel for when loosing traction, and it's more controllable. It really becomes more apparent when pushing the car. In normal driving conditions, I don't notice anything. On PEC's low friction circuit, the difference really stands out.

Putting the car into PASM Sport tightens up the steering and responsiveness up notch and firms up the suspension.

 

[Graustark]

I have a 2019 Cayman GTS 6MT with SPASM. No Sport button in the center console, only the dial/switch on the steering wheel

Perhaps I missed the answer in the replies, but I still am not sure what the "sport" center console button does, when sport chrono seems to do a lot already.

Secondly, user phroenips says his GTS w/ chrono does not have a "sport" button in the center console. How is that possible?

 

[johan]

Perhaps I missed the answer in the replies, but I still am not sure what the "sport" center console button does, when sport chrono seems to do a lot already.

Secondly, user phroenips says his GTS w/ chrono does not have a "sport" button in the center console. How is that possible?

Cars without sport chrono has the sport button on the center consol.
Cars with sport chrono has the dial instead.

Depending on the options the buttons controls the following.
The right side has - rear spoiler - sport exhaust - start/stop
The left side has - sport mode - pasm/spasm - psm (on/sport/off)

So for me with a GTS i have 5 active buttons on the console and the dial that controls the driving modes
I hope this clarifies it somewhat

edit
It sounds like you mix the "sport button" with the "PSM button" that has a sport mode.
The sport button says Sport, the psm has a pic of a car sliding

 

[DriveInHouston]

...
The sport button says Sport, the psm has a pic of a car sliding

Drifting man, drifting!....

You misunderstand the use of this button!

 

[johan]

Drifting man, drifting!....

You misunderstand the use of this button!

Like R on a MT, it means Race

 

[718Niko]

Yep, I have a base and no chrono, the center console sport button is how I switch to sport mode.

BTW, I have seen in one youtube review that the Sport mode tone down the PSM a little, is it true ?

AND, pops and crackles > I have seen in other reviews (and maybe somewhere in the forum here) that they should appears in sport mode (which I have even without chrono), but no luck for me, is there a particular way to get them that I completely miss ?

 

[k.alexander]

I think pops and crackles come from Sport Mode (but apparently not Sport+) AND Sports Exhaust. Do you have PSE?


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[718Niko]

I do have the sport exhaust as well

 

[duegatti]

BTW, I have seen in one youtube review that the Sport mode tone down the PSM a little, is it true ?

No; PSM is independent. See the chart:

 

[johan]

I do have the sport exhaust as well

But no backfire, strange.
What year is your car, Porsche might have changed it?

 

[718Niko]

2019.
Or do I need the windows down to hear it maybe? It is subtle?

 

[jimmuller]

When I read threads like this I usually have no idea what people are saying. Or rather, meaning to say. Too many meanings, so few terms. We have the Sport button(s) for the drive train, a Sport exhaust, and Sport suspension setting(s). Don't forget the Sport steering wheel. At least in my car, and I have no idea what happens in others' cars, I have one Sport button. It changes a bunch of drive train stuff on the engine and PDK. When I push it the idle goes up, ignition timing and mixture seem more aggressive, the exhaust burbles, and the PDK uses higher shift points. It also lowers the target operating temperature for the oil, or so it has been said here and as I think I've observed.

Any other "Sport" buttons are foreign to me except for the cars in the showroom when I was looking.

 

[DriveInHouston]

Jim, you covered it pretty well for the non Sport Chrono, non-PASM/SPASM/PTV base and S models.

 

[982CS]

2019.
Or do I need the windows down to hear it maybe? It is subtle?

Ah, I suspect in your case it's down to the PPF. On pre-PPF models it eminently noticeable. And with a sport cat / downpipe it's almost embarrassingly evident