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Originally Posted by recycled sixtie View Post
Porsche Boxsters are not really suitable for performance upgrades unless you want to replace the engine. Miatas as mentioned above are more suitable candidates - cheaper to upgrade and they really need the extra power. I am just waiting for my Boxster to blow up so I can replace the car and not just the engine. I don't need to mod it to jeopardize it. There is an 8% probability of it grendading anyway!
Again, sorry for the sideline.. but my research shows that much like Porsche it takes big money to get a small horsepower increase... the only economical way to get HP out of a Miata is to go forced induction... without that otherwise you start with 135HP, drop a couple grand on intake and exhaust, and end up with 150HP. I think the turbo/supercharge guys are getting 200-300HP depending on how hard you want to push it... then there are the V8 conversions.

But back to the Porsche discussion
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