Are Spyders Becoming Extinct At OPCs!
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Agreed. Another one here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ka4OsAQ_Wo
Yes and it does it with PSE on. It's quite hard to replicate as you basically need to be in the wrong gear. Have only experienced it a handful of times.
You should try Boxster 2.7 standard brakes!! [:'(]
PCCB is a unique option in that it puts off as many people as it attracts. They're more suited to giving you better stopping performance and less fade during sustained, intense work i.e. on track. However, some prefer not to use them on track because of the replacement cost of using them up. But then to only use them on the street seems like overkill for street use even though they last almost for ever with street use *. * Then some say they'll avoid them because of their fragility against a clumsy wheel fitter etc. which could cut their lifespan really really short! The car we saw hang around the very longest had PCCB's although it may have hung around for other reasons. The enhancement they bring to the steering through significantly reduced weight attracts me (haven't driven one yet but just holding ONE PCCB disc versus a steal one at PEC revealed a massive difference in weight). For some it's reduced brake dust. It seems the bigger benefit of PCCB is on cars like ours which go from 4 to 6 piston front calipers (whereas some of the higher powered 997's were already had 6 piston at the front calipers with steel and the stopping advantage is less pronounced). Well, you can't really have an informed opinion until you've tried them... If I tried PCCB and felt a significant improvement in steering feel and stopping power I might be persuaded, but for street use, the red calipers, which are already enhanced over the black ones seem like plenty good enough without the 'worry' that comes along with ceramics, so i'd have to feel a big difference to want to switch. Maybe I shouldn't try them[
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the great thing about PCCB is the big caliper, and it's also lighter, but if you nacker the disks just fit bigger 2 piece steels then you have a all round awesome setup. So even buying 2nd hand I would get the PCCB just to get the nice larger calipers. I was scared of them and would not buy a 996 gen 1 PCCB, but after having them on the Spyder I think they are amazing and with 3 big after market companies offering a steel disk in the bigger size I would have no issue buying PCCB again 2nd hand. On another note, I tried this 4th gear at 31 mph, and yes you get a 3 second delay, so it's true ;-) But you would have to be a retard to be in 4th at 31mph, yes you can slow down and get caught out and move along in 3rd at 31mph but there was NO lag in 3rd gear at 31mph. the only lag was at 31mph in 4th gear, so pointless issue imo as you should never be in 4th at 31mph even if going mega slow.
But if you check the gear change indicator I believe I am right in saying at 31mph it may even be suggesting get into 5th gear! [link=http://www.planet-9.com/987-cayman-boxster-chat/39030-gen-2-models-has-anyone-found-themselves-2.html]http://www.planet-9.com/987-cayman-boxster-chat/39030-gen-2-models-has-anyone-found-themselves-2.html[/link]
If not 6th!! It's why I only drive my car in sports mode - no gear indication given...
Interesting to see that to date the "Spyder" is still the quickest accelerating Boxster made in it's 17 year history! By now you would have thought Porsche, as the worlds top sports car manufacturer first and foremost, could have been a bit more adventurous with the all new 3rd Generation Boxsters[&o]ORIGINAL: flat6 Came across this in my bookmarks. Take a trip down memory lane[
You're right. They've managed to make such a good driver's car that it sells well regardless of the restraints they place on it. I'm a bit of a power junkie & that's another reason why I'm going 911 with my next Porsche purchase. The Boxster is plenty quick enough for typical road use but sometimes if I want a straight line thrill, there's a threshold level of accceleration above which it turns from exciting to exhilarating. For me the latter requires a 0 to 60 time closer to 4 secs, as I found when I borrowed 997 GTS PDK & I can't ignore that. The Spyder makes up for it by urging you to carry more speed into corners that you may not have believed you could, by giving you very predictable braking to brake late & unrelenting grip. No doubt the 981Boxa isn't worlds apart even if it doesn't have the same feel to give the confidence of the Spyder set-up, but as it gives no extra surge for corner exit, it hasn't really moved the game on in that regard[&o]
I just had a 991c4s PDK for the day After the first 30 mins of enjoying a new car, I soon got board of it. It's a stunning great car though, but the Cayman R just feels like a sports car, the 991 does not any more. The speed thing soon wears off. If you want to go silly fast where it push's your head back you need a gen 3 gtr or a 911 turbo. A NA 911 is not going to give you that speed thill at all, it's no where near fast enough. My TTRS was a laugh and a 3.5 60 mph car with a remap, the dsg doing 3.2 and mid 7 to a ton. It used to eat 911’s with out trying. I also had a gts for a day, and it did nothing for me at all like most 911 they are way over rated.
I went to PEC for a morning playing with 997 GTS Cabrio which on paper was my dream spec 911 since selling my 89 Speedster. Have to agree with a lot of what you say it was just not as thrilling, despite the masses of extra bhp, as my 15 minute drive immediately after in a Spyder at OPC Silverstone on my way back home .... My mind was made up and my hunt for a Spyder began [
] 2.1/2 years on and not a single regret not to mention the extra £30k+ in my account and not Porsche's[] 
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