New game, in town Options

[Randal]

Yikes. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)

One of my students at yesterdays GGR school, showed up with a new Cayman. Beautiful car on the outside of course, but this one had a turbo kit; like $10K. Given this was an S Cayman, the student, who did the installation himself, said total power would be 500HP.

OK, now I know what I want to drive around and then take to the track, change the tires and surprise a lot of folks.

Oh, unfortunately, this was his first outting and he was having some issues with the "operation." He decided to park it and tomorrow will be taking it to a turbo specialist to do a little tuning.

For any of you that have driven a Cayman you know how well they handle, so maybe a Cayman, with 500hp, is a pretty good combination.

I know I know... what about the transmission with all that power - forgot to ask him about that as we were somewhat busy. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)

[grantsfo]

500 HP Cayman would be awesome car! I can only imagine what that car would do on big track. You could put GT3's in your mirrors. ...it would be an awesome AX car too with some big huge Hoosiers. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)

The Boxster is getting lighter and quicker. Down to 2375 lbs now. It beat all 7 Buggies and that DM Fiat X19 yesterday and it got within one and half seconds of that nasty Yellow M3. Here is his run. http://www.vimeo.com/4703066

...And that was on your old tires that I ran 11 runs with LPR a few weeks ago - corded one on my 3 lap de Anza run yesterday. Now thats what I call getting value out of some race tires (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif)

This post has been edited by grantsfo: May 18 2009, 02:25 PM

[Randal]

500 HP Cayman would be awesome car! I can only imagine what that car would do on big track. You could put GT3's in your mirrors. ...it would be an awesome AX car too with some big huge Hoosiers. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)

The Boxster is getting lighter and quicker. Down to 2375 lbs now. It beat all 7 Buggies and that DM Fiat X19 yesterday and it got within one and half seconds of that nasty Yellow M3. Here is his run. http://www.vimeo.com/4703066

...And that was on your old tires that I ran 11 runs with LPR a few weeks ago - corded one on my 3 lap de Anza run yesterday. Now thats what I call getting value out of some race tires (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif)

Sounds like you got 14 or 15 runs out of them. Actually a little less than I thought, but maybe the normal 60 minutes doesn't hold for a boxster which at 2375# (WOD) is heaver than the weight attributed to 60 minutes.

But all in all about 60% of the per run cost for new, so pretty good. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer3.gif)

Did they hold up until they corded?