Go here and read some stories: if you don't get pumped, nothing will get your dander
 

http://www.speedmagazine.com/stories

some guy in a honda claims his turbo lice burner smoked a porsche twin turbo...come on...so a search for porsche tt
Lots of porsche stories there.


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Kurt B
1984 911 Carrera Cabriolet
75 914 1.8

Kurt,you know that i am into this staff big time,and if a honda beat a tt porsche i belive it(hard for me do) i deal with this guys every weekend and i see some of this set ups and for real those things are fast take last week my friend has a 550HP rear wheel horsepower M-3 and some of those hondas will keep with him not for long but they give him a good race even the fastet porsche Eddie Bellos had troubble with them not to mention the Rotary cars (thats another chapter)our cars are AWESOME,but reality is that they are not as fast as before,take GT Class i watch them on tv today and see the Vipers,corvettes,bmw,all of them just eat the porsches,i know that you understand but many members in this board are blindfolded,so who cares if i get more heat.
Regards Juan

Is my computer buggard or is that web page overload by irrate Porsche owners????
Cannot even get it to open?
Hi Juan

Hey,ragtop,how is the car? what do my guys said? keep me inform.
regards Juan

Juan,
Need a valve adjustment job but they quoted 5 hrs and over $300 whereas Vertex quoted couple of hours and $125.......Hmmmmm who should I choose?
I am sure Proto Tech are good but used to working on Porsches that start at $50,000 base value!!!
Thanks for taking me up there the other day as they definatly have a few wet dreams parked outside!.
Was an eye opener. Did you read the thread concerning swapping 3.2 for 3.3 turbo engine?
rgds Ben

I totally understand you Juan...I always did, I was just afraid you'd blow up your engine or kill yourself.
But it's hard to read some guy in an Rx7 say "Porsches are sad..." when he smokes one....
For me, I am a No Excuse guy...I ain't gonna pull up to some guy and say "follow me to the Sepulveda pass and I'll take you on the roads there..."
I am either going to put up at that stop light or shut the f*ck up. And I expect the guys I run into to do the same.
The salvation we have is simple, with the money I've spent on my Carrera, I could have built, and I'm being serious, a huge Turd out of hardened elephant **** and put a turbo charged engine in it that would keep up with any of those cars.
What we have is a different class of car. It's a Porsche. We're paying for the name, for the oddity (air cooled flat six), the flares etc.
I like that...I want to be different, and I'm willing to pay the price, I guess.
But man that was hard to read...some of it anyway. Took it out on Joe Cool coming home from work in a little hatchback who wanted to pass me. Little dickhead, I'm gonna go 45, and you AINT gonna get by. We're all going to suffer!

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Kurt B
1984 911 Carrera Cabriolet
75 914 1.8

[This message has been edited by Kurt B (edited 01-12-2001).]

You go boyeeeee! HA!

As you all know, I am a HotRod guy living in the HotRod midwest. My freinds cannot believe the bucks I am spending to make this "German Junker" go fast. I could've had the most badass blown aluminum big block ball buster this side of the Mississippi for the money this project is costing me. But I've got the bug. You all know the bug. Once you go Porsche you never go back. My daily ride keeps me grounded to my old HotRod ways, but the 911 is something very special. Oddly, I don't get challenged in the P-car like I used to in my street machine. I think it was Kurt who said the flaired cars have that "who's your daddy" attitude. Can't wait until the exhaust note matches up with a "don't even THINK about it" of its own.
In a 911 you don't have to race, just showing up draws a crowd. There are a lot of ways to go faster for cheaper, but there ain't nobody out there that exudes classy, sexy, exotic power like a 911. Nooooobody.

Aw, they're all a bunch of turtles compared to me and my beast. It's got a popoff valve. The rice burners don't have popoffs I bet. So there.....!

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'83 SC

Sorry guys, but the few stories I read were pretty sick. Guys throwing nails out the window to thwart CHP, driving at night without lights at 120mph, plus just a lot of hot air.

Makes me really appreciate our P community on this thread.

Dan

Kurt,i undersatand is sad to me read those storys to ,and worst been spank by a sentra or so,i been thinking a lot maybe i go across the fence and get a rx-7,or something else, then i remenber the first time i drove my car ,i was in love!!! and im still are , our cars are diferent and i will make this thing run like a mother er,not today or tommorrow,but some day,i waited almost 8 years so what if i had to wait another 10 to make it run.im happy that you understand all this as,rarlyL8 does to, so im not alone anymore,we have one thing in common we are realistic people.

Where did my post go?

i wrote this on another site, and i think it explains the details that people leave out all the time:

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you CAN feasibly make just about any motor and car combo do whatever the hell you want it to. you can only boost a car to a certain level before you knock reliability out of the picture. also remember that exotics pack not only power and reliability, but comfort. i've kept up with Porsches that were 20 times as expensive as my car, but while i was heel-toe shifting, late braking, and wrestling with the steering wheel... they were eating Fig Newtons and saying "damn, i can't wait to get out of 3rd gear".

i'm pretty sure that you could make a honda civic drag race car for about $60,000 and it would outrun lamborghinis, porsches, ferraris, etc in a straight line. but remember that LONG after that $40,000 of engine work has melted into a pile of goo, the competition will be running strong, reliable, and their resale value will be retained.

how many people here would pay $60,000 for a Civic with a burned out motor, a destroyed transmission, broken motor mounts, and a weakened chassis? for that same $60,000 you could get a mildly used Viper with about 5,000 miles on the clock.

you can pick up chicks in a new Viper. but NO chick in her right mind would ride in a worn-out hulk of a $20,000 japanese car (which you paid $60,000 for) that is running 50lbs of compression on it's last remaining cylinder, with an interior so loud it sounds like there's a chainsaw in your ear. not to mention one that runs off of stinky, eye-burning nitromethane that makes you gasp for air.

think about it.


obin

It's flattering that they should choose our cars to tell their "fish stories" about.

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Robert Stoll
83 SC
83 944

What a bunch of BS. I love bench racing, but I like to keep it real. I used to like street racing until I grew up. These guys are just full of it and have no clue what a "real" car is. These are the Civics and Preludes with 3' wings and 100+lbs of stereo just shooting the sheit. I’m not saying that a rice burner can’t be fast, just that talkers usually are just that.

"Every year a bunch of rich guys get together and race from St.Louis to Chicago. What they do is hire a helicopter to fly ahead and check for State Troopers, however a lot of the guys cars, mainly the Porsches would over heat and die because they used to be air cooled http://www.pelicanparts.com/ultimate/eek.gif, but sounds like fun though"

There is an intelligent comment is I ever heard one!

This is more likely what they are... http://www.riceboypage.com/ http://www.pelicanparts.com/ultimate/smile.gif

IMHO



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Dave
1970 914-6 (soon GT)

WHOA NILLY!!! Back up there - guys racing from St.Louis to Chicago? That's Rt.70E to Rt.57N - right in my back yard! How did you find out about this? I need details man, this ain't funny!

Last year a STOCK 993TT won the Pony Express 185mph class. No overheating there. Details, man, gimme details!

Kurt, what's a "lice burner"?

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Tyson Schmidt
72 911 Cabriolet

Well stated Obin! I do totally agree with you.

I Rice Burner is even too complimentary. My most civil expression is therefore Lice Burner.

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Kurt B
1984 911 Carrera Cabriolet
75 914 1.8

[This message has been edited by Kurt B (edited 01-13-2001).]

What a bunch of pathetic morons. How much boasting can people do. "My rx-7 beat a ford in a drag race so i can beat any american car." What kind of screwed up logic do these people have. I see these idiots all the time bragging on their cars. They dont seem to understand that no matter how fast their car is there is always someone faster. Period.

I don't know about you guys, but here's a unique opportunity to blow deflate some egos and make up a few "stories" that will be sure to infuriate.

I can see some sample topics...

"959 Project car annihilates rice-boy throng"
"911 Widebody w/935 motor vs Type R Turbo Integra"

And of course, as participants in the list, we're expected to make outrageous claims like we were racing at 200mph and "I was still powersliding at 165mph" etc. But to make it authentic, we're all going to have to say that we've got 19" 3-piece wheels, chrome pedals and VTEC controllers.

Or.. we could choose to ignore them and allow them their own little dreamworld until they run into a busload of senior citizens at 140 mph.

Whadda ya say?

Adam Chaplin
1976 911 Coupe <---- with 9" ZIGEN exhaust, HKS blow off valve, K&N Filter, Chip and a set of those Teddy bear alloys! http://www.pelicanparts.com/ultimate/biggrin.gif

That site was a crock 'o' *****. Most people who can afford high end exiotica like that are *old*. When was the last time you ever saw someone under 40 drive an M3? I am not suggesting that people over 40 cannot enjoy these cars, but I hope that they are sensible enough not to go road racing with them. In general, they are.

Road racing is just so crazy - I can't imagine how devastated you would feel if you killed innocent ppl because you were racing some punk. It would just ruin your life. And the penalties should be extremely high for this sort of behavior. There is no such thing as a 'safe' road race because others have to use public roads - and by racing you put their lives at risk.

The only place for racing is on a track, in a controlled environment. Btw, I think driving fast in the right conditions is completely different, and can be very safe. But in racing the dangers increase dramatically.

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'72 911E Sporto