I need a driving lesson!

[blue2000s]

Originally Posted by thstone

Agree with everyone else. Don't worry about an idiot in a Toyota and go to a track day somewhere.

But since you asked, the secret to a quick start is high RPM's and let out the clutch quick. Boxster's don't have much torque in the low RPM range so you have to get into the power curve right off the line or you're toast.

Beware, this isn't good for your clutch and at $2K for a clutch replacement, its better to just let the other guy go.

The clutch wouldn't be what I'd worry about if I used the method your suggesting. It's the axle tramp that breaks gears that would concern me.

[thstone]

Originally Posted by blue2000s

The clutch wouldn't be what I'd worry about if I used the method your suggesting. It's the axle tramp that breaks gears that would concern me.

Agree! This is very hard on everything in the drivetrain.

[Beelzy]

Practice, practice, practice......Dumping the clutch that is.

[stateofidleness]

who can afford the gas to be street racing??

i'm relatively young (25) so other cars seem to expect the "redlight showdown" when they're next to me...

truth is, there's a lot of cars out there now that can spank the boxster (subies, turbo'ed 4bangers, hell even some of these 29Liter trucks (exaggeration for effect) can beat my car.. if beating someone in a straight line is your goal, the box will always leave you disappointed I think..

to be more on-topic, what if you WERE to stay neck and neck with the highlander? then what? one of you is gonna cause an accident where the the merge actually takes place because you'll both be too stubborn to back off and let the other pass. and if you were in front of me when this happened, boxster owner or not, i'd be pissed (of course i'd side with the box driver first, let's not get crazy here)

to quote the greatest movie of all time: "there's a lot of bad drivers out there" (come on, name the movie!). Don't be one of them!

[Jake D]

We used to race on some country road after school. Road was really skinny but straight. There was a house about a mile down, we'd race past that. Problem was once you past the house the road dipped down a good amount. I have no idea how nobody got killed on that road. Running 120+ and then bottoming out the suspension next to another car... Now when I drive that road it makes be nervous when other cars are coming toward me because how skinny it is.

Anyways, I have always been a believer in not racing anything that's not worth beating. A Highlander would not be a vehicle I would enjoy adding to my kill list.

But, bring the revs up and dump the clutch/ let it out quick and floor the **************** out of it.