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Old 03-30-2010, 07:53 AM   #1
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spend a fraction of that money on a Chevy LS1

Then you'd have a Boxster that sounds like a Nascar...I'd rather mine sound like a GT3RS.
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Old 03-30-2010, 08:42 AM   #2
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spend a fraction of that money on a Chevy LS1

Then you'd have a Boxster that sounds like a Nascar...I'd rather mine sound like a GT3RS.
No Turbo will ever sound like a GT3RS, the Turbo muffles a lot of the sound

BTW: If you want to listen to real good GT3RS sound, take a look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjFxqaAbiNk
This is on-board video (and sound) from a GT3RS from this weekend in Thunderhill
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So you're willing to pony up tens of thousands of extra dollars for a different exhaust note? I'd rather have a wicked fast boxster AND a wad of cash in the bank at the expense of a different (sound preferences are highly subjective) exhaust note.

I'm just sayin'
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Old 03-30-2010, 09:04 AM   #4
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M96 motor + Twin Turbos...???

Double Trouble!

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Old 03-30-2010, 10:51 AM   #5
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Wowza....

Sure would like to test drive it.....
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Old 03-30-2010, 12:42 PM   #6
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Sorry to be ignorant, but most all the cars in that ad site are over $100,000.00 even a 2007 box is $109,000.00. is that u.s. d. or pounds?
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Well, since the site is in Australia I'd take the wild guess that the currency would therefore be Australian Dollars (which btw. has pretty much an 1:1 exchange rate against the US $)
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Old 03-31-2010, 09:41 AM   #8
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That's a blown engine waiting to happen.


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Then you'd have a Boxster that sounds like a Nascar...I'd rather mine sound like a GT3RS.
No. Then you'd have a Boxster that sounds like a Corvette C5.R. BIG difference!
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Old 03-31-2010, 11:17 AM   #9
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[QUOTE=Mike_Yi]That's a blown engine waiting to happen.QUOTE]

isnt that what we deal with on a daily basis already with our M96?
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That's a blown engine waiting to happen.




The ad says they lowered the compression ratio to 9:1. I wonder what other work they've done internally. It may not neccessarily be a blown motor in waiting.
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