Turbo Porsche gets a slap!
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Turbo Porsche gets a slap!
Hello all: Here I am Sunday morning 101. I get on freeway ahead of a brown maybe 02 Porsche. Look back a couple miles and he is coming up fast. I get a clearing in front and we are doing about 80. I hit it and so does he and then trys to go around me. All I know is that I was ahead of him til about 140and then I let up to get off. I suspect that he could pass me eventually if we kept going. Dam our cars have ***** on the top end
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there are a lot of fake turbo around here (LA) every other P-car has a turbo badge talk about posers! that said i was looking at an 01-02 turbo S this weekend and sorry but there is now way your car could even hang, that thing pulls like a bat out of hell! i do love the W210 55 so much that car is just so well built over the new ones!
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There a few annoyances, but thats with most Mercedes of this generation. Its not as bad as the 320/ 430, but its still pretty lacking, expect to change the rotors / pads every 12-15k miles and god awful fuel economy. The worst is the quirky electronics in the car.
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Stock non turbo Carrera's are slow in my opinion. I've had several. Mostly 993's. The turbo's are a lot faster. My last was a 96 993 C4S - twin turbo that Proto-Tech built. Now that car was fast. I would say an E55 would eat up a stock non turbo Carrera!
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How was the acceleration of the twin turbo 993 compared to your V12TT?
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He was definitally not pacing
He was making a great effort to go around me and pass me. Turbo's are very quick! I know. But our race was from about 80mph to 140mph. I know he was tring and I know I was infront the whole time. What you think should have happened (him beating me) did not happen
With that superchip my upper end pulls like a freight train
He was making a great effort to go around me and pass me. Turbo's are very quick! I know. But our race was from about 80mph to 140mph. I know he was tring and I know I was infront the whole time. What you think should have happened (him beating me) did not happen With that superchip my upper end pulls like a freight train
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Are we talking about W210 E55s or W211?
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