hi Pilot,
see above ... i thought about ppl wanting to know price so i edited my post (probably while you were typing yours)...
at present i have around 27k in the car.... i picked the Boxster up for 14k at auction which would have been a sweet deal if everything had gone according to plan...unfortunately things didnt turn out that way.
yes...for that much i could have bought a newer S model but this option gave me more power and the car is what i want visually and ups the hp that an S model would have gotten me.
since i don't plan on reselling it anytime soon....i figure i havent lost a whole lot of money to the entire deal and see it as break even...tho with some initial headache involved as i did not initially plan on a conversion...