Most bang for your buck. - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

fragdude · 07-25-2008, 01:57 PM

My brother is a HUGE camaro person (he to this today insists that his 2001 Camaro SS was the best car money could buy), and we had a running joke that a bigger engine in your car is good because it "anchors" your car around the apex of a turn. Haha, vette and camaro people love stomping on the gas and love saying they get good fuel economy on the highway thanks to that "supper cruise" 6th gear (stupid IMO)

angman · 07-25-2008, 02:15 PM

I have not dyno'd my car but I don't think my Dansk exhaust added much power after the install. It sounds great though. I installed the cheap $100 headers the other day (excellent quality) and the whole system sounds much better now with less resonance (not that I had much to begin with). However, I certianly feel like I lost low end torque after the installation of the headers. I have't had a chance to let it rip yet but the sound is truly amazing at higher RPMs. Do you guys think a chip would help or would it just be more money down the drain? I don't smind pending money on my setup thus far as I like the look of the stainless exhaust and headers as well as the sound very much. I just don't want to spend money on a supposedly performance mod if I am not really going to gain any real performance from it. At least the other stuff has some cosmetic appeal.

The upgrade that I like the most so far are my Eibach lowering springs.

Blkboxster · 07-25-2008, 02:30 PM

some exhasut can loose Horsepower!

Adam · 07-25-2008, 04:59 PM

For $2500 your best power adder is going to be nitrous. Of course, the best bet is dump your 2.5L and trade it in on a cheap 3.2L boxster S. It's like a 2.5L on nitrous except you never have to refill the bottle...plus you get better brakes/handling ect.

fragdude · 07-25-2008, 06:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blkboxster

some exhasut can loose Horsepower!

My theory on exhaust is to get the most proven/respected one for this reason. I would really like a Fabspeed exhaust (full pref. but the headers aint cheap). This is another reason I really didn't like moding my s2000. An AEM intake was about 300 bucks, but because of the vtec system, it wasn't very good at adding power. A good intake for an s2k ran from a grand up wards (some went up to 3k...for a cold air intake!). The best exhaust for it cost about 2500, even if it didn't add any power it weight 12 pounds versus the 45+ of the stock.

Adding an exhaust is a cheap way to get power...if you get power....for cheap