MAD MAC

951's or S2. I want another!

jmporsche944

You want a 951, its all about the boost!

MAD MAC

what about the weight dif in an S2 or should we start another post on the debate?

jmporsche944

trust me, ive driven S2's and turbos. I love the S2 for the low end torque... but a 951, especially with some very simple bolt ons, will just blow it out of the water, no question.

MAD MAC

Cool that's what I'm asking for. But what about turbo maint?

jmporsche944

HA! There inlies the problem. I just got done paying a 5k dollar bill for pretty much a full tear down of my engine. It was leaking from everywhere. But its practically new now!

But yes, the maitnence is a bitch!

MAD MAC

Right, might as well own a 930. jk.

jmporsche944

Then again, I had a 951 with 200k miles on it (i owned it for about 20k of those miles) and put MAYBE 500 dollars in it. What a great car.

MAD MAC

hope to find a good one soon. but the girl not sold yet; still need more pics. guy's; who doesn't need two cars.

xsboost90

i really dont understand why pple say the turbo is that much worse than an s2 or n/a. The turbine is a pain to work on w/o pulling the motor but other than that the engine and maintenance is just the same! Maybe ive worked on too many of these cars but i just dont see what the big deal is with working on them. Now if your paying for someone else to work- that is a pain in the wallet.

MAD MAC

xs boost
you have one of the coolest cars, but I've always heard that a turbo is a turbo no matter what engine it's attached to. 4 or 6. play with that.

jmporsche944

Well, its the difference between dropping the oil pan on an N/A and a turbo, naturally its more work on the turbo because all the exhaust that has to be removed. Everything is just more complicated. I always did my own work, till the whole engine was leaking, i was having clutch problems, and no time. Then someone else does the work at 100 dollars an hour, and you end up broke.

More power = more problems in my opinion too. I snapped the bolts holding the CV on the diff. flush. That just wouldnt happen in an N/A. Blown head gaskets seem to be more common on the turbo cars too for whatever reason, probably people not monitoring their A/Fs.

Just seems the turbos are more work.

MAD MAC

love ya guy. I do my own work too. If we were rich we would drive GT3's

MichelleJD

+1

I agree dropping the pan is a bitch, but how often are you gonna do it? To me the added gains of having a turbo well overcome the disadvantages of working on it.

MPD47

Just because I'm a picture *****