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How hard (or risky) is to do elaborations on a Porsche? I always got the impression that because of the little space available on the rear and for how normally well balanced things are, tweaking a Porsche is a bit of a no-no.. but then came the Cayman S..
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Not trying to be flippant, but honestly, as an owner of an air-cooled Carrera, I can recommend a video game called "Forza Motorsport 2", if you want to get an idea of the performance mods and tweaks available for the popular Porsche models 911, 914, 930, 996 and 997 as well as the Cayman S. Sadly they didn't include the 964 or 993 Carrera (the 993 is only available in GT2 trim). I haven't played the game in many years since I no longer have my Xbox360, but one thing that really pi$$ed me off about FM2: every car had rear wings as available upgrades, except the Carreras. You might not think rear traction would be a problem with the engine back behind the rear wheels, but look at the profile of the 911: it's an airfoil. At 150mph, you will lose a lot of road-holding ability without some sort of rear spoiler, like the duck tail on the 2.7 RS. The automatic extendable rear spoiler that was introduced in 1989 is actually a retractable duck tail, and is still in use today on the latest Carreras. Many Porsche owners opt to replace it with a fixed wing, often in conjunction with front spoilers.
The engine mods in FM2 for the "high performance" cars like Porsche and Ferrari are to be taken with a large grain of salt. Whatever "cheap" improvements to ignition and exhaust are possible to increase HP have aready been implemented by the manufacturers (speaking mostly of the 1990's and later models). For the Porsches, suspension and tires are where upgrades can give the biggest improvement in lap times, in FM2 as in real world, since standard suspensions are tuned for ride comfort over high speed cornering. Big increases in power on the naturally aspirated flat-6 requires an expensive forced-induction solution, or in the case of sub-3.6-liter engines, a newer bigger engine. There are many real-world examples of naturally aspirated Carrera 3.6 engines that are running reliably with bolt-on blowers. You can try these as well for yourself in FM2.
Probably in FM3 as well, I haven't tried that version.