Want to buy a Porsche. How do I do that?

Deleted member 280263 said:
Cheers dude :) Haha! Thanks for being so understanding :)

Ha, for me it was far too hot this evening and the heating was making me go a bit daft :cry:

We took apart one on a 996, the piston/con-rod was jammed in the cylinder good and proper "like proper ******, yes Tommy, proper ******!" (IYKYK ;))
The cylinder wall was cringe worthy, and we found chunks of metal in the oil pickup, starving it royally, and the crank had long left the chat :D

I love an FD, FC is more my style, but FD's are beautiful, I loved that FEED kit that had the TVR headlights and F355 rears.

Did you ever see the 90's early VHS of BMI where the guy has a the Levin with the Cosmo's 20B swap, and they roll up on him and he just goes supersonic :D
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The heating on in November?! For shame!!

Ah, it was a 996. That could go either way. How many miles did it have on it?

My FD was such a damn beautiful car. It was a JDM import, 1998 Type RS with a mere 27k on the clock - I fitted a '99 rear wing, FEED side steps, and LED rear lights. It already had CF Re-Amemiya door handles. It looked damn fantastic. I've posted a picture of it somewhere on the forum at some point. It came into my posession for the stellar amount of £5,600!

Back on topic... something, something about OP buying a Porsche. OP wants flashy car. There are terrible roads in NZ. Are there terrible roads in NZ? There obviously are good roads in NZ.

Porsches handle like ****. MX-5 is king. S2000 VTEC goes bwaaap y0.
 
Gibbo said:
To be honest pretty much done entirety of Wales now never had an issue and always truly enjoy whatever I've been in which has been a mix of Caterham 420R, Clio 182 Trophy, Alpine A110S, GR Yaris, Cayman R, Audi R8, McLaren 600 LT, Porsche GT3, Porsche GT4, Porsche Spyder, Ferrari 458, Ferrari 360, everyone has been a truly memorable drive.

Always remember once driving my Caterham back from Abyerstworth sorry for butchering the spelling but I dropped on a B road, not another car in sight and the red mist dropped, good job the road was empty as I was absolutely flying but what an adrenalin fuelled drive, think my only drive in the Caterham which topped that was flat out around Donington Park GP in it, but even then only marginally as always feels so much quicker on a narrow b road and pulling out of junctions with the rear tyres totally lit and full on sideways like a maniac, in fairness I did 3000 miles in the Caterham, that is a lot of road miles in a Caterham and I'd only be doing those road miles in a Caterham if it was fun, because on a regular busy road or motorway that car was no fun at all, thankfully I am rural with lots of narrow national speed limit lanes on my door step, perfect for a Caterham been so small.

So yeah people who say you cannot enjoy a car in UK, rubbish!
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Excellent. There is an absolute gem of a drive just south east of Aberystwyth (I'll forgive your spelling ;)) that goes across Devil's Bridge, then carries along a hillside with some unbelievable hairpins and sweeping corners. Does that sound familiar? I have a lot of experience with a 987R and that neck of the woods. The unbeatable blend of sublime handling, a flat 6 soundtrack, and the ideal roads to weave it all in to one beautiful symphony. I bloody miss that car.

I've always had the itch for a Caterham but the reasons you describe are exactly why I can't commit to the idea of it. I like to pot around and then go for an escapade when the moment is right. I try to drive the fun car as much as possible, and that's hard to do when the fun car is far too dependent upon driving location and conditions, sadly. My current GT4 is blending those two needs for me quite well. I went to Toolstation in it a few weeks ago and got some right puzzled looks.
 
aaronyuri said:
It's always #6. Cars from 2009 or so onwards do not have bore scoring issues outside of negligence.

The 996, 997.1, 986.1 era was a bad one for Porsche engine reliability with the IMS bearing, bore scoring and so on.
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People are still having problems with 4.0 GT4s, so I don't think they fixed all the issues. Quite a few oil pumps seizing it seems. They already did a recall on them some time back.
 
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Gray2233 said:
I'm looking around, and if I end up pulling the trigger I'll blame you and my mid life crisis. :p
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Just to tempt you I mean just look at. :D

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aaronyuri said:
Excellent. There is an absolute gem of a drive just south east of Aberystwyth (I'll forgive your spelling ;)) that goes across Devil's Bridge, then carries along a hillside with some unbelievable hairpins and sweeping corners. Does that sound familiar? I have a lot of experience with a 987R and that neck of the woods. The unbeatable blend of sublime handling, a flat 6 soundtrack, and the ideal roads to weave it all in to one beautiful symphony. I bloody miss that car.

I've always had the itch for a Caterham but the reasons you describe are exactly why I can't commit to the idea of it. I like to pot around and then go for an escapade when the moment is right. I try to drive the fun car as much as possible, and that's hard to do when the fun car is far too dependent upon driving location and conditions, sadly. My current GT4 is blending those two needs for me quite well. I went to Toolstation in it a few weeks ago and got some right puzzled looks.
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Sounds very familiar does that to a drive out we recently did in our 987R and agreed was excellent.

The B4391 is one of my all time favourites the full stretches as it goes on for miles and lots of amazing roads around that I tend to use it as a test track for all my cars haha. ;)

No cameras and quiet!

One of shorter technical stretches here somewhat calmly driven as on camera:

 
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Diddums said:
That purple is spectacular. Surprised you didn't get a V10 @Gibbo!
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Wanted the V8 on purpose, I find it a far more fun road car as you can drive the V8 harder and enjoy full throttle longer.

Having driven both back to back, though admitted the V10 Plus was S-Tronic, I've driven a manual V10 but some years ago.
But to put in perspective sensation of acceleration between the two is very similar, they both feel just as strong as each other performance wise, until you look at the speedo and the V10 will be going 20-30% faster, for me myself that makes the V10 an instant dismissal as its far more likely to get you into trouble or if you want to be somewhat legal you cannot enjoy the V10 as much.

Also I have no idea if Audi changed something but my 2009 V8 Manual compared to the think it was a 2012/13 V10 plus S-Tronic and I drove both back to back but the steering in my V8 was better weighted and had more feel, both cars running PS4S, so Audi either changed something or my alignment was helping. Anyway after driving both back to back, the one I wanted to keep was my V8, its the more fun and enjoyable road car that you can truly enjoy on public road, it also sounds better more of the time as it sounds amazing across entire rev range, whereas as the V10 sounds great as well all the time, it only truly howls when you build the revs up.

I am a big advocate of faster is not always better, hence V8 R8 over V10 for me and a 600 LT over say a 720S for example. I am more interested in feel and engagement along with sensation of speed and fast feeling rather than actual fast.

What is the point of 0-100mph in 6s if its not thrilling and exciting? :)
 
Gibbo said:
What is the point of 0-100mph in 6s if its not thrilling and exciting? :)
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Very good point. This is my mantra too, albeit with bikes. No point having massive power on the roads as the drama and theatrics will also only start at 100mph.

It's also why I love two strokes. Lots of noise and drama at fairly low speeds. Good fun.
 
Diddums said:
Very good point. This is my mantra too, albeit with bikes. No point having massive power on the roads as the drama and theatrics will also only start at 100mph.

It's also why I love two strokes. Lots of noise and drama at fairly low speeds. Good fun.
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Agreed another way to explain it.

My Cayman R and Audi R8 V8 both hit 100mph in circa 10s and will hit 60mph in around 4.5s

Yet to drive on the road, if you boot the R8 it rips your face of and bear in mind this is a 1600kg AWD car, admittedly its gearing is quite short just how a good manual should be. The Cayman R has slightly longer gearing (abouut 75 in 2nd compared to abouuut 65 for R8). But in feel and sensation of acceleration you'd think the R8 had twice the horsepower it is literally so dramatic, but that is testament to how good that 4.2l FSI V8 is coupled with short gearing.

So in A110S, Cayman R, R8 V8 or very similar on performance stats but drive all three back to back and you'd think R8 is way way quicker acceleration, sound track no doubt helps too but in reality they all perform near as dammit identical, having owned all three the R8 is my favourite, followed by CR and then A110S.

R8 - Engine and looks
CR - Truly amazing steering feel and handling
A110S - A true lightweight and you feel it, worse engine and lack of steering feel.

Both all similar performance though to 60 the A110S is quickest at a recorded 3.9s by myself personally and very consistent. Also on the road video above the A110S was the most capable on said road, but saying that I found the R8 more enjoyable and considering it had another 500kg to heft around it was nearly as capable, R8 truly defies its weight. Porsche of course also superb, must say I find the CR more fun and engaging to drive than I did 718 GT4 on that road.
 
Down force will slow the straight line speed, but that's not what a track car is about.

Though how many people are actually taking one of these to a track day. Most will be used to pose in London traffic.
 
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Nasher said:
Down force will slow the straight line speed, but that's not what a track car is about.

Though how many people are actually taking one of these to a track day. Most will be used to pose in London traffic.
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Seen plenty of 992 GT3 RS on track days, passed them both in my 600 LT Spider. :D
But in fairness the owners of them I'd say at least half are tracking them, very popular on track days particular RMA and Lotus-on-Track days.
 
Nasher said:
Down force will slow the straight line speed, but that's not what a track car is about.

Though how many people are actually taking one of these to a track day. Most will be used to pose in London traffic.
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Ah bless, you just told everyone you dont do track days.

Most buyers wont live near London either!
 
aaronyuri said:
The heating on in November?! For shame!!

Ah, it was a 996. That could go either way. How many miles did it have on it?

My FD was such a damn beautiful car. It was a JDM import, 1998 Type RS with a mere 27k on the clock - I fitted a '99 rear wing, FEED side steps, and LED rear lights. It already had CF Re-Amemiya door handles. It looked damn fantastic. I've posted a picture of it somewhere on the forum at some point. It came into my posession for the stellar amount of £5,600!

Back on topic... something, something about OP buying a Porsche. OP wants flashy car. There are terrible roads in NZ. Are there terrible roads in NZ? There obviously are good roads in NZ.

Porsches handle like ****. MX-5 is king. S2000 VTEC goes bwaaap y0.
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Whoops, missed your reply, my bad :)

Yeah it's a disgusting practice for November :P

Haha, something like sub 90K :cry:

Nice, love FEED, but my all time favourite will always be RE-Amemiya <3
Yeah that's a decent price for the time!

TBH I've no idea about roads in NZ, I was under the assumption it was nice there, from the brief car scene footage I've watched years ago :P


I do have a soft spot for a 996 GT2 and a 964 Turbo, TBH I'm not a big beetle fan myself, they know full well it should have been MR layout in the first place, which is why they held back the cayman for so many years, then eventually gave it the year befores GT3 RS engine and bits of the front suspension etc etc, then still gimp the GT4 RS with silly long manual gears, so you spend your life in 2ND and ironically wish you'd got the PDK :( - however I'm sure you could change the diff ratio and remedy that ;)
 
Deleted member 280263 said:
Whoops, missed your reply, my bad :)

Yeah it's a disgusting practice for November :P

Haha, something like sub 90K :cry:

Nice, love FEED, but my all time favourite will always be RE-Amemiya <3
Yeah that's a decent price for the time!

TBH I've no idea about roads in NZ, I was under the assumption it was nice there, from the brief car scene footage I've watched years ago :P


I do have a soft spot for a 996 GT2 and a 964 Turbo, TBH I'm not a big beetle fan myself, they know full well it should have been MR layout in the first place, which is why they held back the cayman for so many years, then eventually gave it the year befores GT3 RS engine and bits of the front suspension etc etc, then still gimp the GT4 RS with silly long manual gears, so you spend your life in 2ND and ironically wish you'd got the PDK :( - however I'm sure you could change the diff ratio and remedy that ;)
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Hmm I see. <90k isn't exactly what I would call ultra high mileage for a Porsche.

Re-Amemiya gear is damn nice. I can't imagine how pricey that is now, never mind how much the car would now be worth!

You're not quite right on the engine and gearing for the GT4: 718 GT4 RS has an engine based on the GT3 engine and is PDK only. The 718 GT4 has the 3.0 turbocharged engine from the 911, but without a turbo and bored out to 4 litres. The 718 GT4 comes in manual (with the long gears) and PDK though. The long gears don't make a manual 718 GT4 a bad car though - I should know as I have one. :D
 
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