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02-28-2016 06:05 AM |
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Originally Posted by autojack
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Frank, great to meet you today and thanks for letting me take the car for a spin. Now I feel like I have a solid baseline experience with the G50. I'll get another chance to drive my friend's 915 for more than 10 minutes, and that should help a lot with knowing what they're like. Any excuse for some 911 seat time ;)
Per our conversation in the car, here is the quote from the Peter Morgan Ultimate Buyers' Guide book about the changes Porsche made to the 915 in the later years: "In 1985 and 1986 there were successive reductions in gear lever travel of 10%, to reduce the 915 gearbox's notoriously vague action (compared to other contemporary gearboxes)." So I don't know how those changes, which he seems to suggest were universal, relate to the separate short shift option that was available.
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Owen, I enjoyed the drive and our chat.
If you acquire the SC in Denver, I'll road trip back to SF in it with you, if you want a co-pilot. Too bad the RS inspired touches are red instead of blue. I could live with blue for a while. As it is, I would need to drop the red wheels off to Harvey Wiedman on the drive back to SF from Denver.
Interesting note on 915 shift throw reductions. I'm surprised nobody has chimed in on what the definitive changes were. It may be a moot point however given the thriving cottage industry that has grown to remedy the 915's shortcomings.
Rich Gas, you're in SF too? I'd like to try your smooth shifting 915 some day if you're up for it. I've been taking my '88 to Bodega Bay's Spud Point Crab Company for Sunday "brunch" as of late. Glorious clam chowder and crab cakes wrapped in an equally glorious drive up & down Highway 1. Perhaps a group drive after Owen gets a car.
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