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Default Re: The loss of power to the wheels on our cars.

Originally Posted by Teck-9
I wondered if somebody would catch me with the Cayman, I thought about editing my post, but the Cayman is just a boxter with a fixed hardtop. The Cayman is my favorite Porsche, but the S still is not as rigid as even a base XF. 911's have back seats and it pisses me off. The fastes cars should be 2 seaters, no reason, just my liking. And if all cars loose 15-20%, then there are some serious errors in factory speed claims on countless cars. I think I am going to go with a 32AMG swap because they make as much numbers as the 55K with TVT's 450+ and the N/A stock is lighter and better geared than the SRT. BUt still. There are only 2 German Fastback 2-seaters in the world. Food for thought. Either way, I have a blue XF N/A roadster that I got salvage for 3 grand with 36k miles. I replaced a control arm and broken oil pan and it runs fine but has a scrap title. I might just keep that and get the RT10 in place of my SSB coupe. But then I loose my German Fastback. I just dunno. The SRT drop in will take me to 180 mph or to the N/A's 327 gear rev limit which is just under that and in the lighter, 327 geared N/A, the SRT engine should have me at 0-60 in under 5 seconds without the weight penalty of a V8. Ok, here's a question/ voting poll. SRT-6 vs N/A vs RT 10 around a road track. Who's 1, 2, and 3. Now keep in mind that motertrend said that the handling on the Rt10 was like playing ping pong with a baseball bat. Look em up on wikipedia. Is the handling gap in the XF's enough to account for the gap in power? I know the SRT6 does 0-60 and top out similar to an RT10 and will out-handle it, but could the N/A stock beat an RT10 around a road course? I've no idea.
FYI it's not as simple as putting a SLK32 into a SRT, btw to SRT's suspension is stiffer and the extra weight is the supercharger. The 55k that rudy is putting in puts down 520 hp. When you find a 32 engine that does that let me know please

One more thing, the 55k engine rudy is putting in only weighs another 100lbs more than the 32k engine.

one last thing
1. Viper
2. SRT
3. N/A

Viper has more low end torque and more horses. The SRT just won't dig like a Viper will. Especially a raw 94 one.
 
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