[lindemans]

The 86 should be capable of providing the same feel as the older one you're familiar with.

Like others stated: the car is very sensitive to:

- quality of tires; due to the weight in the back, handling is very very sensitive to stiffness of the sides of the tire, for 16" far better tires are available on the market (tires with Porsche N-coding)
- suspension is a specialist job to get that right; unlike common springs the older 911 has torsion bars that need to be pre-set through manual adjustment to have equal load on all 4 wheels; only someone who really knows what this means can adjust this using a weight scale under each wheel; this is way beyond standard adjusting the front wheel alignment alone !!

These 2 items can make or break the handling of the car dramatically.

And of course low tire pressure, especially in the back, is killing