If they made a lightweight "Sport" model and put a GT3 engine in it, they'd get my attention. Otherwise, it's just another good-looking luxo-barge.Tim Comeau wrote:Delete the dash board stop watch and a few other foo-foo items and I could really fall for this new Porsche...
ttweed wrote:If they made a lightweight "Sport" model and put a GT3 engine in it, they'd get my attention.
ttweed wrote:Otherwise, it's just another good-looking luxo-barge.
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Tom Tweed wrote:... just another good-looking luxo-barge.
No way, not in SS trim (with no modifications.) There might be a chance if a good driver buys one and prepares it to at least S class, with lowering springs, a good alignment, and some Kumho 710s. Given that the Boxster S in Stock class last year had a best OA placing of 12th (Bill Thorp on 4/30/05), I suppose a well-prepped Cayman could squeeze into the top-10 if there were enough of the "old guard" absent from the event.Kim Crosser wrote:Could that be the sound of fear? Is Tom worried that a "good-looking" water-pumping street car could break into the TTOD top ten without modifications and displace a few of the old guard?
ttweed wrote:If they made a lightweight "Sport" model and put a GT3 engine in it, they'd get my attention. Otherwise, it's just another good-looking luxo-barge.Tim Comeau wrote:Delete the dash board stop watch and a few other foo-foo items and I could really fall for this new Porsche...
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Looks like you had a very good run that day, Kim, but 3 seconds is an eternity in an autox, and you were 13 places out of the top ten.Kim Crosser wrote:In my "showroom stock" 2.7L Boxster on street tires (LSS), I was only 3 seconds (okay - 3.01 seconds ) out of the TTOD Top 10 at the last AX
This is supposed to support your argument that a SS Cayman could get into the top 10? An LP car should be faster than the KP cars which are regularly in the top 10, since it is a higher class. And JGW is such a good driver that he could embarrass most of us if he brought out his econobox Honda Civic Si to one of our events!... during practice, James G-W took the "Spec Boxster" (2.5L, LP) around in 1:16 and change, which would have gotten into the Top 10. (He didn't drive it in timed laps.)
Nice backpeddle, Kim! I think that's exactly what I said in my first response. I don't see any car with SS tires having a chance at the top-10 in our events, there are just too many fast drivers on R-compounds and slicks these days. I do agree that with some good tires and mild prep (given that all the new cars from Porsche seem to be set up to understeer horribly for safety/liability reasons), an S-class Cayman might very well be able to do it (especially if JGW was driving it!)I suspect a Cayman with a good driver, good setup and moderately sticky tires could shake up the "old guard" - in "S" if not in "SS", and without many alterations.
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