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Originally Posted by smshirk
Who knows what they'll come up with next?
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Since our primary focus has shifted to the 9a1 DFI engines and Cayenne engine deficiencies theres not a lot left that we can develop for the M96/ M97. The focus with these engines is now to create resource materials, like my M96 Engine Bible and to instruct more classes to a growing number of technicians and enthusiasts that are dying for the info.
We started working with the M96 before anyone else to gain a serious lead on the competition, and it worked very well. Today it'll take 5+ years for anyone to catch up if we stopped in our tracks. As we move forward we already have two years of development and engine building into the 9a1 engines and have already found deficiencies and eliminated them.
Its constant evolution and thats what drives Charles and I. I am really bad about only wanting to develop, by the time something is ready to be sold I am so done with it and have moved on, that I don't even care if it sells.
All new cars are built like anything else today... To be "just good enough". This opens doors for innovators like Charles and I. Back when I first started my company all Porsches that had the engines where the belonged didn't have radiators. With those cars it was very difficult, and usually impossible to beat the factory at their own game. With the M96 its been much, much easier since so many compromises existed.
Today the only Porsche engine that impresses me is the Cayenne, other than cylinder issues (stupid damn lokisil in the non TT versions) the Cayenne engine is built like a tank with serious heavy duty parts that do not break. I am currently designing a big bore, 5.3L Cayenne based engine that should hold together with over 1,000HP of output.
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I love those old 911s and still have an 80 model, but I wouldn't drive it back and forth to work 70 miles round trip every day, especially in the summer.
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I've owned all the modern Porsches that I care about owning. I drive 88 miles a day, by choice. My daily driver is an '88 Carrera with near 300,000 miles on it that has had nothing done to it other than a clutch job a couple of times. I abuse and neglect it, but I drive it every day when I don't have to test a new engine in a modern Porsche before it ships across the country. I drive it in snow, rain, or blazing 100+ degree heat in July, which isn't too uncomfortable with updated A/C. I still believe that Porsches are no about modern amenities or power accessories. I prefer aircooled Porsches and always have; in fact until I bought a test Boxster to apply all of our crazy developments to, a watercooled Porsche had NEVER rolled a tire onto my property.