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Sounds like Porsche outsmarted themselves with a complicated, expensive system that is supposed to make the car easier to drive but does the opposite.
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If I could afford a half a million dollar car, I wouldn't give a darn about a clutch job. But I bet I could learn to drive it. Or, I could fly to Germany and pay someone to teach me.
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03-19-2008, 05:08 AM
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I DIY my C-GT clutch jobs.
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03-19-2008, 06:05 AM
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If they can afford the car, they car afford a $50,000 clutch job. I dream occasionally of owning a car like this and it seems like hearing a story about how much the maintenance cost validates why I don't "need" to own it. Sort of like somehow you worked your way into living in a 10 million dollar mansion and finding out you have to pay $25,000/month in taxes. These people that make 5-10 million/year don't live in my neighborhood and to them, this equates to out $250 brake job. They probably enjoy it and if gives them bragging rights at the next dinner conversation.
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03-19-2008, 06:37 AM
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I wonder if Micheal Dell felt the same about his GT dying on side the highway unexplainedly?
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03-19-2008, 06:50 AM
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Whaaaa
Porsche is just trying to keep the price up with the jones...er, I mean enzos 
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03-19-2008, 07:07 AM
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I think Pelican has the clutch assembly listed for purchase through here. If I had money to burn I'd order one just to see if they could actually fill the order or not.
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03-19-2008, 08:03 AM
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Hmmm, fix the GT clutch or get a boob job for my girlfriend? These are the painful choices the mega rich must make...
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03-19-2008, 08:23 AM
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If I ever get to that position it will be a decision between a clutch and a knee replacement.
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03-19-2008, 10:41 AM
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I still don't understand the CGT clutch system.
Why did they seem to reinvent the wheel? I know that it is a carbon ceramic clutch (which makes the high price more believable to me) but what else is so different about it?
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03-19-2008, 10:46 AM
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These parts all come with a box of condoms?
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03-19-2008, 10:59 AM
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CGT just like any other car! sort-of
28K clutch job....
i guess 89911 has it right.. its all perspective........ and at the end of the day its a car...... : 4 wheels a steering wheel gas seats brakes windows a radio and a tow-truck driver named "chuy" (literally, the patch on his shirt said freaking chuy!) who doesnt really care what kind of car it is.... its a car to him that he had to hook up his jumper cables to get it started...... and off to the next car that wont start.....    humbling isnt it?......... dont get me wrong brotha's..... i LOVE these cars,...... want one in the near future!........ hehe |
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03-19-2008, 11:50 AM
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Have a acquintance that races. Was just at Sebring.
Says the GT is one of the best driving cars he's driven. Talked about the clutch (which he really likes). He's gone to AZ and CA to give driving lessons to owners on how to drive it without killing themselves... or the car. A number of people own them for just a few months, then sell. Just want to be able to brag that they had one. |
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03-19-2008, 12:27 PM
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1969 and 1986 Porsche Targa and Coupe 1720cc and 3
Pre- H20
