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Originally Posted by mptoledo
On the serious side, I noticed modding a Porsche is as bad as when I had my Vette. I found real quickly that you don;t go in and ask for a corvette altenator, you ask for a GM Altenator. I mean come on you can supercharge a frickin miata for around $2000, but to do a porsche your lookng at a starting price of around $7000. 
Now I didn't buy my Box to street race, but when one of those cocky little kids roll up next to me, reving his engine, in his Mustang gt with spinners and walmart radio cranking out nothing but distortion, I would seriously like to at least show him the superiority of finely tuned German machine.  |
If you want to outrun a Mustang, get to your closest road course where you have to turn a bunch. You should do pretty well stock vs stock. A Boxster is the the BIG time wrong car for the stop light grand prix.
On the Miata comment, its not really a fair comparison. Ignoring the fact that there are/were significantly more Miatas sold than Boxsters which means there is more market competition, the older model Miata motors were based off a forced induction motor and were relatively low compression with simple engine management. Pretty easy to slap a basic kit on them and not blow anything up. All Boxsters are much more complicated cars than older Miatas are, especially when it comes to the stock engine management, and all Boxster motors are higher compression that don't take too well to forced induction unless you are very careful. However, that being said, price a base Cosworth supercharger (one of the few units available) for a late model Miata which has significantly more advanced technology than the older Miatas.....you are looking $5k+ starting price.