Ditto on warmup then I rarely shift the 86 less than 3800-4000 rpm, they were meant to drive you know. IMHO Taking it into the upper ranges is much better for reduction of carbon buildup than driving it too easy all the time.

 

Hitting the rev will get rid of some of the carbon buildup on the very top of the cylinder walls. So if you hit it once in a while it's no problem. I rather hit it once in a while then once a year or two.

 

You guys are wusses!

As soon as I get in my car I rev that sum bitch up so everybody knows Im slippin into some Stuttgart metal. After that I tear *** down to the end of the cul de sac, weaving through children and small ladies walking their springer spaniels. I do a couple donuts near the old guys house who never heard the words "Chemlawn" in his life and chooses to bring everybodys property values down. Beyond that, the pampering is over and I redline the **** everywhere I gotta take care of business. Its like lifting weights. You dont start out on the wuss-man 2lb dumbells when you go to the gym. You grab the biggest *** piece of iron in the joint and let everybody know you mean business. If you throw your intestines out your bowel, well, thats all part of it. Theres no grace period with me. If the car breaks those numnuts back in Zuffenhausen didnt do all their homework.. Warmup laps are for mullets. You gotta just jump right in and let er' rip if you want to get the most outta these cars. If you're drivin' an Chevy Caprice Classic Brougham, perhaps, and I say perhaps, you ease into things and rub her with a diaper until everything is warmed up. Not with a Porsche. You gotta treat a Porsche like the bastard stepchild who used to steal your smokes and robs the corner liquor store. These kind of cars need a swift kick in the *** as soon as they roll outta bed. Oil? Oil is for posers. If you got five quarts, use all five. Thats what its there for. If you want a sissy car, treat is like a sissy. When I pull into Jiffy Lube I dont tell em top off my fluids I tell em to gimme some fluids. Dont even bother driving a powerful sophisticated car like this unless you plan on driving it so it needs an I-V at the end of the day. These cars can take an asskicking. And let me tell you, from someone who could use a good asskicking like myself, nothing beats a good one. I always leave a few burnouts in the Super Walmart lot to make sure Im reaching proper boost. Dont give me the "well you need to RTFM" jibber jabber. Manuals are for lab rats and conformers. Dont talk to me about numbers and statistics on engine wear because I can show you a lake with an average depth of six inches that drowned a man who tried to walk across it on just numbers and statistics. If you are a driver's driver like me, who could probably turn semi-pro at the local track if you cleaned up your act a bit and got off the hooch, then you need to change your driving habits. Out on the open road practice slaloming the yellow dashes like I do. Apex thru the corners and use all the road there is. If everybody else wanted to use all of the road, theyd have bought a Porsche too instead of that loser minivan with the peeling wood paneling. Every time I walk away from my car when I return it to the garage, I tell it "and theres more where that came from". Why be a lab rat when you can be the cheese. Think about it.

 

 

i drive my car nicely sometimes. i used to always drive it nicely but one day i was driving with my dad in the car. he seriously wigged out and told me to"stop driving like a girl!" he goes with the drive it like you stole it theory. he always tells me those cars are meant to be driven like that. nowdays i drive moderately hard.

 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I think I'd have to double check my pulse if my dad ever told me to drive harder.
Most of the time whenever he's with me and I screw around too much I'll get a nice loud "KEEP THAT @#$% ON THE TRACK!!"

 

same here. except the response may vary from silence to a stern "SLOW YOUR A$$ DOWN OR I'M DRIVING!"

 

UD that was the funniest thing I have read in while. Now stay off the hooch and clean your act up!

I like to let car my know who wears the pants, although they are somewhat heavily greased stained.

 

How do I drive mine? I don't!

In an effort to keep the miles to a minimum, and the car pristine, I pulled out the engine.

Then, to keep that beautifully polished SFR exhaust luster, I removed it too.

Also, to keep the factory phone dials from fading, I took those off too.

In addition, to keep the seats from cracking, I took them out too.

That flawless dash...in a box in the attic...should be beautiful for years to come!

 

UD, How do you come up with this stuff?......That was great

 

Standing 'O' for UD!!!

To be honest, I haven't driven my car very hard while I've had it, but this is because I haven't been able to hold a job long enough to pay for some needed items on my car, because I'm a fulltime student. Some may ask why I own it if I can't afford to maintain it all the time; fair question.
Well I love my car, and I love driving my car every chance I get...and when I finally graduate this spring, I'm going ALL OUT on my car, and when I know it's safe to do so mechanically, I'm going to drive the HELL out of it.

But let me explain something to you guys. THESE CARS WERE MADE TO BE DRIVEN HARD. They were made to do like 250km/h on the Autobahn, or more!!!
When I was in Munich this past summer, I stayed with my good friend. He lives just outside of Munich, about 30 km. We would go into the city at night and and enjoy ourselves, and we would take the small stretch of highway to get there. My friend REDLINED IT the whole way, without letting up, in his little Volkswagen Golf at about 170km/h...and we got there in TWENTY MINUTES from his house. Now, I thought to myself, to think he does this EVERYDAY at least a few times back and forth to get to Munich! And so does everyone else on the road!
That's how they drive!!!!!!!!!! That's where our cars are from, and what they were meant to do!!!

And some of you are afraid to rev it above 3000 rpm???

 

Once warm you always rev it hgher than 4000 on every shift? Man that can't be good for it...nor the MPG.

 

Drive the your godman cars..... its a Porsche for ch**st sake!

Just don't break them...... then again.... they are going to break anyway.. at least have huge amounts of fun during the process. Besides.... its either a $500 this month or in 2 months time.... same amount of money, its up to you how much fun you can buy with it.

Me .. A good warm up and hit the highways.. work that needle.... I generally get a good 90mph in forth and hold it a while before changing to 5th for on my daily route.

Then again.. somedays I putter along like an old lady.....

At the end of the day..... don't beat it, respect it....but do enjoy it to point that you can sleep at night.

Drive on.....

 

once she's warmed up, if the conditions allow, its ***** to the wall. Right up near the rev limiter and tearing around the corners. Then I see a car on the horizon and bring it back down to toyota corrolla style driving. The car is meant to take it hard; so long as you maintain it. Keeps the carbon out and the corrosion down. Those who say the rev limiter isnt safe need to consider the factor of safety that porsche designs into their cars, it could probably rev at 7000k rpm without a problem, might not make power but shouldnt be in danger. If the car were not stock, I may think differently. But for now, vRRRRRR er er er Vurrrrrrrrrrr er er er.