How much could Porsche charge for a Tubo Boxster S???

[Perfectlap]

sorry I meant to say I would appreciate the 3.2 over the 2.5 in a straight line.

I mentioned autocross in reference to the statement that a slow car can never be a fast driven car when I brought up the Miata/civic in autcross conditions. There lots of different types of driving where a car can be considered fast.

Autocross is indeed not meant to be 100+mph events like on the road course or drag strips but on most cars frequently AutoX'd, 2nd gear is good for up 75mph, 3rd gear and your up to 100 mph its not really an autocross anymore. Sharp turns between 50-75mph is plenty fast enough to evaluate/improve a non-professional driver and non-dedicated racing car. I hear the tire rack who sell more tires than any retailer around run their own private autocross events to evaluate DOT approved tires.

But back to the straightline. The Boxster S had a 0-60 in the 5 second range. The 2.7 Boxster was maybe a hair over 6 seconds? A $100K 911 is in the 4 second range? Let's say you drop a huge engine in a Boxster and your into 4 seconds, you shaved less than 2 seconds. If I count out loud to the count of 2, it doesn't seem like that bid a deal to me. Certainly not a big enough deal for me to wish I had a more powerful car than my BoxsterS. I generally avoid going much over 75 on roads where these morons in their SUV's are doing 30 mph over the speed limit. At really high straightline speeds for me its too much trust in strangers in cars whose driving experience you have no knowledge of. Even on the road course track with the BoxsterS top speed, unless you can drive the car to the limit and produce a near perfect lap time I wouldn't see a use for more power. The power at hand is already more than non-professional drivers can fully exploit. And more than enough to get you in trouble.

which goes back to my belief that if you want a car to take to your local 1/4 mile track to do some racing, then the 2.7 and 3.2 Boxster wasn't designed for that purpose. Doesn't mean it won't fun if that's all you have!

[Brucelee]

I would still like to drive a 300 HP Boxster and see how I like it.

Hmm, the Cayman?

[Perfectlap]

Well the 987S is already 280? Will another 20-40HP would make that big a difference? That guy I saw whipping the pants off that 987S during the test drive sure was having fun though!
And of course what's HP without the right amount of torque?

I'm fearing the day that the 987S shows up to a local Autocross event, I'll have to decide to ask to ride along for one lap and possibly hate and curse my 986S forever!
(Actually I'm kidding, that new front end is still not rubbing off on me since I first saw it)

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Brucelee

I would still like to drive a 300 HP Boxster and see how I like it.

Hmm, the Cayman?

The Cayman will be the ultimate drivers tool I predict. The boxster S (987) is already doing 0-60 in 5 flat and mid 13 sec 1/4's. A 3.4L cayman will proabbly hit high 4's 0-60 and low 13 sec 1/4 miles. That's C5 territory in the straights plus unreal cornering capabilities.

[Brucelee]

Agreed! A $60K Cayman seems like the ticket. Hmmm, WHEN will they start showing up at the auction?????

Still hate the name.

[scubaguy10]

I would love my 2.5 Boxster to have more power, but lets be realistic here. It may be the slowest of these cars, but it's still plenty fast. At 0-60 in 6.7, 1/4 mile in about 14.5, it's quite adequate for my needs. The first car I ever drove was my father's 1969 Z-28, a legendary muscle car that, for its time, was considered a great handler. The straight line performance was maybe .3/sec faster, top speed not as good , and it got 9 miles/ gallon on Sunoco 260. I think we're well past the point of overkill on horsepower with most of today's performance cars.

With that said, a local Porsche specialists thinks he can install a 3.4 motor with headers in my car for about $12,000. Tempting.......

Mike

[Brucelee]

Does that price include the motor? Used, rebuilt ???

[Adam]

I would seriously consider doing the swap to the 3.4L if you can get it at that price...and the people are competent. I posted a story about a guy who did a FVD 3.4L swap on his 99 and the results were very impressive and I'm sure he paid alot more than what you quoted. He was doing 12.8's in the 1/4 on street tires. That's less than an eyeblink slower than a 400hp C6!

[Ronzi]

If you look at the MSRP for the '05 Carrera vs the Turbo, Porsche has about a 90% premium for the Turbo car ... $69,300US vs $131,400.
In the Cayenne line, the std car is $41,400 vs $89,300 for the Turbo, a 117% premium.
Translating this onto the Boxster would give a speculative price of about double that of the base model, or $43,800US vs say $85,000 for the thusfar non-existant "Turbo" Box.
Thusfar only one respondant has indicated a willingness to pay anywhere near what Porsche would probably want for the car.
As they say in the racing world, speed costs money. How fast do you want to go?

[aramati]

I recently took my Boxster S on the track in Pahrump. There were 2 indentical BMW's M3 Coupe with the 330 HP engine. The three of us were in the same class(Beginners); so we got to see how both cars behaved. It was real strange, in the corners, I would really gain grounds while in the straights I would loose it. At one point one of the BMW's feeling my heat behind it, spun out of control and went off the track on a tight turn; it was sweet. The other driver with a bit more skill, stuck to me like glue. The moral I think:

A Boxster with a 250HP is better than an M3 Coupe with 330 HP. I just love the way the S take the curves on the track and brakes off speed. At the end of a straight and before a 90 Deg turn, my speed was at 105 MPH, the car brakes and suspension, made it look easy. You just cannot get into trouble and if I did, lifting the foot off the gas a bit corrected things quickly.

I think if I had more HP without beefing up brakes and suspension, I would get into trouble coming out of a straight into a tight turn. The car as it is is very well balanced. Why fool around with a good thing?