SMOKED by a Dodge NEON!!!

[KRZTACO]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

The NASA, Porsche Club of America and SCCA have lots of nice tracks and autocross events where you can demonstrate your Boxster's suprioriorty over an SRT.

Improve the driver not the car.

The Boxster was not engineered for years by very talented German engineers and designers for drag strip racing. If that's your preferred style of racing I suggest you sell that $50K car and buy a Shelby Mustang.
The steering wheel on the Boxster was meant to be turned left and right.

Hi Perfectlap,

"I am upset at this, however in the context I should have lost. We started at 60 MPH and I let off at 120MPH 5 car lengths BEHIND in a straight line. Had we started at a stop light or had some turns I could have took him." just a quote you may have missed in my initial thread.

[scoobyrex27]

The first day I had my boxster a guy came up to me and said "I saw a Neon smoke one of these!"

I just said: "Yeah, those SRT-4 are quick but at the end of the day you still have to drive home in a neon"

I don't care what you shoehorn under the hood, It is still a plastic, cheap car and it will never ever be able to achieve the level of refinement and performance of a Porsche.

I came from a hopped up WRX to my stock boxster and i never looked back.

[Adam]

If it was from a 60mph roll i hope you started in 3rd gear and not 4th, but I have a feeling you had it in 4th gear the whole race. I raced a 285hp(not wheel) modded WRX from a 65 roll twice. The first time I was in 3rd and I took him by at least two lenghs when my speedo hit 100mph. The 2nd time I started in 4th and the result flipflopped and he won by about 2 or so lenghs. This shows just how important it is to race at the start of the boxster's max powerband because it doesn't have the lowend grunt of a small block chevy. Let the vario-cam do it's job!

[Lux]

Doesn't matter how fast an SRT-4 is.

It is a POS. End of story.

I'd rather have a WS6 if I wanted to go fast in a straight line. At least it's rear wheel drive. You can get one slightly used for under $20K. Put $3K worth of mods on it and it will demolish just about any car in a drag race to 150 mph.


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[KRZTACO]

Originally Posted by Adam

If it was from a 60mph roll i hope you started in 3rd gear and not 4th, but I have a feeling you had it in 4th gear the whole race. I raced a 285hp(not wheel) modded WRX from a 65 roll twice. The first time I was in 3rd and I took him by at least two lenghs when my speedo hit 100mph. The 2nd time I started in 4th and the result flipflopped and he won by about 2 or so lenghs. This shows just how important it is to race at the start of the boxster's max powerband because it doesn't have the lowend grunt of a small block chevy. Let the vario-cam do it's job!

I started in 3rd Gear a little over 4,000 RPM's right when the Vario-cam kicks in and shifted in 4th upto 120mph. Just the facts, I sill love my Boxster S and would never want anything more (except an 2005 Boxster S)