I have had a thought!

[my89_928gt]

Wow, plenty of good feed back.
I have thought about the engine swap, the 996 engine is a lot of work and not cheep, but not a bad idear.
The S engine would be the simplest and cheeper way, but only 50hp, him maybe.
Bolt on supercharger kit, not a bad idear and will not realy shorten engine life.
My idear, who knows, lol. Should work fine and reliable and may just be more power than I want.
Oh, nitrious, thought of it. You don't want to use one of the cheep $500 kits as the do not have any safe guards. They have some realy neat stuff to make nitrious very safe these day's. I have a freind that is going to use one that ramps up 4 times I belive it is. That way you don't get a hard slam of power that is so hard on the engine(kinda like a supercharger just a steady build of power no slam). Also, a controler that retards timming a bit with each increse in nitrous, and a monitor that if a drop in fule presure is detected it will shut the flow of nitrious off and save the engine. He will also use a controler for minum rpm and max rpm that nitrous will be allowed.
No, he dose not have a Boxster, lol.
All, that neat stuff for nitrous sounds great but still can't bring my self to do that to my car.
An other car? Maybe.
Lots of options, most of witch I have all ready pondered. I will be takeing my time on this and doing some home work.

All most for got, the front end fealling light at high speeds, I don't think it is realy getting light. I think it is just the mid engine nature of the car. I could be wrong.
The 928 has the engine up front and the transaxle in the back. Those 2 large weights make the car very stable and less willing to chage direction. The boxster has all the weight in the mid area lending to a very responsive car that is quick to change direction even at high speed. That is what I had to get used to.

Stiffer shocks and springs maybe in order with a good power increase. Also, S brakes would not hurt. Though as good as the brakes are should not be necessary on less you get realy crazy.
The real concern is the wimpy clutch.
Though better pads and powerslot rotors will help.

All that, is just my opinion.

Richard

[lexuspilot]

What speed do you need to feel this float?

I have cruised at 95 and not felt a thing wrong.

I haven't gone to a track to go faster.

[deliriousga]

Originally Posted by lexuspilot

What speed do you need to feel this float?

I have cruised at 95 and not felt a thing wrong.

I haven't gone to a track to go faster.

I've heard it's at about 120. Not that I've ever done that.

[deliriousga]

I would consider nitrous if I had the $$$ to put in a new engine if it shortens the engine's life.

It seems it would be difficult for any real beneficial mods. I don't think supercharging is possible due to space and the position of the crank pulley. Same with a turbo, no room. A much larger engine won't fit and would probably snap the drive shaft.

The one I saw that was going to 450hp was a $40K job so I'm guessing it was done right, but that's a chunk for something you're not racing it.

[nastyboxster]

I upgraded my 2000 Boxster to an S about 3 months ago now. I had the same problem with my old Boxster - I NEEDED MORE POWER!

I think the easiest thing to do is to upgrade your car to an S. You can better handling, brakes and power and best of all it's still very balanced!

In autocrosses, a good driver can outrun turbos and GT3's. Our autocross champion drives a stock S with MO30 suspension and R compound tires.

On the track, an S runs in the same class as 996's and it handles better, so theory, it should outrun the 996's on the track. I learned that it's not just the power of the car that makes it go fast, it's the balance of power, handling, braking and of course most important of all - THE DRIVER. There were faster cars like turbos, GT3's and 997S's with novice drivers that I passed on the track. On the other hand, there were slower cars like pre 90 911's that passed me.

On the street, you can't go that fast without running into traffic or worst yet - the cops. I get my need for speed on the track and autocrosses.

You can read my reviews of cars that I testdrove - Most of them faster than mine, but I still prefer the S over them.

Do I need more power? It would be nice (you can see my wishlist in my review of cars), but in the meantime, I'll learn how to be a better driver......

One more thing, I'm very happy with my upgrade to the S!