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Like its predecessors, the 3.6 Turbo was fully equipped. Items like the sound system need to be period-correct – a Bluetooth upgrade for instance should be suitably disguised. For customers who wanted more power, Porsche Exclusive offered the X88 kit: a larger turbocharger, revised valve timing and reworked heads and manifolds raised power to 385bhp. Distinguished by their twin exhaust outlets each side, a mere 88 of these were built in early 1994 as well as 76 Flachbau 964 Turbos also with the X88 engine. If these X88s are genuine Exclusive cars (some are aftermarket conversions), on the basis of rarity alone they are worth commensurately more than the stock 3.6T. A limited-slip differential with 20% lock up in drive and 100% on overrun was fitted as standard, but buyers looking for automatic transmission would have to wait until 2001 for the 996 Turbo.