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Originally Posted by speeder
Absolute bullschit. You wear your ignorance like a badge of honor. There are more factory-supported, ready-to-race 996/997 cars than there ever were when your POS was new. Why did you have to change the engine? How much did that cost? Couldn't have been much, right? Only about 4 times what a crate 996 trans costs from Porsche. Life is too short to work on slow cars all the time. Some guys just want to drive.
And for people who care about performance, not some "mystique" that they don't even understand, Toyota builds some dead reliable everyday cars that are faster than your sled.  |
I don't know what this has to do with flashing and models.
This is humorous because those who are most defensive of these cars are the ones who overpaid for one when there are far better other new cars on the market. Also, *I* am not the on who changed the engine, it cost me $0, so who was calling who ignorant? I've ben well known to state on here there are things about the 3.0L engine that I prefer over the 3.6L engine.
While I think the 996 was a good starting platform/chassis, and I did not say it was a slow car, but maybe you can explain to me:
Questions:
1. Why the transmission and motor are one part number from Porsche?
2. Why all your gears are pressed onto the mainshaft
3. Why the Turbo, GT3 and GT2 use the bottom of end of of the 993 engine
Answers:
1. Because the transmission and engine are disposable items
2. Porsche has cheapened the manufactuing process here and elsewhere
3. The lower end of that PoS engine cant stand up to the stresses of the higher output.
And the final question, which I will leave you to answer yourself is, how much do you there is in common with the 996s in race events vs. than the one you buy from the dealer? This die hard "Porsche or nothing" elitest attitude is anything but productive for anybody except the bean counters at Porsche AG.
Buy whatever you like, but don't sit here and badmouth me about stating FACTS. I have driven all of these cars and the only one that even got any spark out of my was a GT3. But as soon as you hit redline once, consider your warranty void, Porsche will tell you the same thing.
And you are making my point for me... I'd rather have a new Toyota anything than a 996. There are more imporant things to me than how "fast" something is such as long-term reliability.
Out of respect for the brand, I would flash a Toyota before I flashed a 996. Read into that what you want.