Porsche shows how easy it is to make a lot of money

[baronWastelan]

Not only made, also Tested In Germany

[TomcatViP]

350hp & 8.2liters that I am dreaming off

(got a 13L per 100 here )

By the way for the price of the new Porshe what kind of plane could you get and how many Steam account for CoD ?

A Bavarian drink goes to the winner

[ATAG_Bliss]

Ahh! A thread about cars

I'm a bit of a horsepower nut. I don't think you can really have a "best of" cars as soo many people like so many different things.

Personally, I like obnoxious V-8's with tons of power. I'm a straight line racer and there's nothing quite like putting around in a fuel injected 1300 HP car that runs on pump gas. Not a whole bunch of street cars out there that run 154 mph in 1320ft at 8.85 seconds. There's nothing quite like being on the edge of losing control in something that's uncontrollable. Hard to explain, but I'll probably die in a creation of mine someday.

Ford is bar none my brand of choice. Pretty cool to take a factory SUHICKY (SOHC) block and be able to make that kind of reliable power that I could drive to and from the track. I usually take off the parachute mount for the street though.

Basically I can't own anything that's factory or stock. I grew up with welders, mills, presses, and a shop full of tools being raised on a farm. So fabricating metal and working on the farm machinery (then my own vehicles ) was normal. Now sorting my time between work, games, and cars isn't easy. Thankfully I'm not a fan of sleeping or watching tv lol.









Anyone else a car guy? Post up some pics!

[baronWastelan]

You should like this Porsche: 200 mph in about 10 seconds. In 1973. With an air cooled engine. Even by today's standards this car is frightening. Oh, and it can corner too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYBtCJDQqqg

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by baronWastelan

You should like this Porsche: 200 mph in about 10 seconds. In 1973. With an air cooled engine. Even by today's standards this car is frightening. Oh, and it can corner too...

man, I love that fan on top, looks like a Tiger tank!!

You have to appreciate that one thing is a supercar of the times vs your own garage monster, made with your own hand and as wisely said by ATAG_Bliss, likely to kill you

Truth is that thanks to technologies available nowadays, we have more pioneers and inventors around, who really have a great time and sometimes actually make something cool and interesting

How hard (or risky) is to do elaborations on a Porsche? I always got the impression that because of the little space available on the rear and for how normally well balanced things are, tweaking a Porsche is a bit of a no-no.. but then came the Cayman S..

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

I'm a bit of a horsepower nut. I don't think you can really have a "best of" cars as soo many people like so many different things.

that is unless you're a Porsche head

[raaaid]

911 is a magic number

first started seeing 11:11 every where

then it would be 21:12 or 12:21

and now its 911 or 190 or 109

if i had the money i would buy that car just for the number

notice how also the "terrorist attacks happen in magic numbers:

911

7-7

11 march

hell this 11-11-11 better get the police ot work

edit:

they are transforming owe into terror

they did it with me with the 77 and 19 and 11

edit:


i dont know but id bet something on 911 a 777 was involved

[baronWastelan]

How hard (or risky) is to do elaborations on a Porsche? I always got the impression that because of the little space available on the rear and for how normally well balanced things are, tweaking a Porsche is a bit of a no-no.. but then came the Cayman S..

Not trying to be flippant, but honestly, as an owner of an air-cooled Carrera, I can recommend a video game called "Forza Motorsport 2", if you want to get an idea of the performance mods and tweaks available for the popular Porsche models 911, 914, 930, 996 and 997 as well as the Cayman S. Sadly they didn't include the 964 or 993 Carrera (the 993 is only available in GT2 trim). I haven't played the game in many years since I no longer have my Xbox360, but one thing that really pi$$ed me off about FM2: every car had rear wings as available upgrades, except the Carreras. You might not think rear traction would be a problem with the engine back behind the rear wheels, but look at the profile of the 911: it's an airfoil. At 150mph, you will lose a lot of road-holding ability without some sort of rear spoiler, like the duck tail on the 2.7 RS. The automatic extendable rear spoiler that was introduced in 1989 is actually a retractable duck tail, and is still in use today on the latest Carreras. Many Porsche owners opt to replace it with a fixed wing, often in conjunction with front spoilers.

The engine mods in FM2 for the "high performance" cars like Porsche and Ferrari are to be taken with a large grain of salt. Whatever "cheap" improvements to ignition and exhaust are possible to increase HP have aready been implemented by the manufacturers (speaking mostly of the 1990's and later models). For the Porsches, suspension and tires are where upgrades can give the biggest improvement in lap times, in FM2 as in real world, since standard suspensions are tuned for ride comfort over high speed cornering. Big increases in power on the naturally aspirated flat-6 requires an expensive forced-induction solution, or in the case of sub-3.6-liter engines, a newer bigger engine. There are many real-world examples of naturally aspirated Carrera 3.6 engines that are running reliably with bolt-on blowers. You can try these as well for yourself in FM2. Probably in FM3 as well, I haven't tried that version.

[BadAim]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

Ahh! A thread about cars

I'm a bit of a horsepower nut. I don't think you can really have a "best of" cars as soo many people like so many different things.

Personally, I like obnoxious V-8's with tons of power. I'm a straight line racer and there's nothing quite like putting around in a fuel injected 1300 HP car that runs on pump gas. Not a whole bunch of street cars out there that run 154 mph in 1320ft at 8.85 seconds. There's nothing quite like being on the edge of losing control in something that's uncontrollable. Hard to explain, but I'll probably die in a creation of mine someday.

Ford is bar none my brand of choice. Pretty cool to take a factory SUHICKY (SOHC) block and be able to make that kind of reliable power that I could drive to and from the track. I usually take off the parachute mount for the street though.

Basically I can't own anything that's factory or stock. I grew up with welders, mills, presses, and a shop full of tools being raised on a farm. So fabricating metal and working on the farm machinery (then my own vehicles ) was normal. Now sorting my time between work, games, and cars isn't easy. Thankfully I'm not a fan of sleeping or watching tv lol.


Anyone else a car guy? Post up some pics!

I'm a Chevy guy myself (though I'm presently carless [if you exclude my 300HP service van]) but I'm a lover of all things with wheels that make the ground rumble. I'll see if I can dig up some photos of my cars. My favorite was a '69 350hp SS 396 Chevelle (I'll miss that car 'till the day they chuck me in the dirt).

Edit: You remember the Crane Fireball cam? I had one in that Chevell.....I don't remember the specs specifically, but it was ground on 108 degree centers to give it a nice lope at idle but she made power from 2500 to 6000, with the 650 spread bore double pumper it was as drivable as grannys car but had all the power I could ever use at 18. I really learned how to drive sideways it that car.

[baronWastelan]

balanced

No single word more important when it comes to the design of a sports car! Porsche has been building and competing rear-engined sports cars for over 60 years. Whatever sort of tweaking one could imagine has already been tried by now.



With some research, you can find out whether your ideas will work before even attempting them. According to their website, Porsche has 20,000 different racing parts for sale. The car owner can call Zuffenhausen and tell them what he wished to do with the car, and they will tell you which part(s) to use, and where on the car they should go. They'll even build the whole car for you from the ground up, based on your intentions.

[335th_GRAthos]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

I usually take off the parachute mount for the street though.

Jesus! You mean you are allowed to drive this car on the normal road???



@Sternjaeger II: Well, it depends what you mean with "well balanced". The 911s are not "balanced": Weight distribution is around 62% rear and only 38% front (varies by model)
which means that if you lose the rear grip with stability electronics switched off you need to have the skill of a F1 pilot to put it back on track.


~S~