[sammyg2]

This is something I posted about 5 years ago. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/210441-showing-off-turbo-po.html#post1804654
I just got back from visiting the guy I bought my 9 eleben from, he had just bought an NSX and wanted to show it off. In turn I showed off my 9 eleben (that I bought from him) after I put the turbo on it.
He ended up selling the NSX less than a month later.

Well, the NSX was purdy. bright, arrest-me red, looked brand new. Onliest problem was the tranny crunched into second gear, gotta pull the tranny and engine to fix, aint as easy or cheeep as with a 911.

He took me for a ride, I was impressed. Very nice, smooth, solid, and faster than I expected. Not as fast as my car, but no slug. Too refined and isolated, kinda like watching a race on TV vs. being in the race.
It felt like a fast Cadillac or Mercedes, the kind of car you could drive 100 mph all the way to Vegas without being tired.
Still, it had too many doo-dads. Do we really need a thing on the dash to tell us a door is open on a 2 door sportscar?
AC works, that was a nice touch, but head room was almost non-existent for someone my size. I had to move the seat all the way back and tilt it way back just to get my neck straight.

Then we took a ride in my car. I cruised around normal-like for a mile, He said, "it doesn't sound much different".

Then I hit the throttle at 3000 rpm in second as we entered a gradual right handed sweeper. The boost hit, the back squatted down but stayed planted, and the right front was climbing up in the air. I banged third and he was grabbing onto anything that he could reach. He said, "holy ***** this thing hits hard!"
I got on the binders and slowed down to a more comfortable pace and he started saying stuff about how we have to go show this car to this guy and that guy. My work there was done. Maybe I shoulda raised up the boost more. Did I mention that I raised it up to just under 9 psi before I left my house?

Before I left he told me that he always wanted an NSX but he's already thinking about selling it. He told me he rarely drives it and all he sees when he looks at it is a large payment sitting in the garage. He's put 1000 miles on it since he bought it.

All in all his car was very nice, but too refined to be a true sports car.
If he asked to trade i would consider it but just because his car is worth so much more on paper. My car is way more fun to drive even with it's squeaks and quirks.