pete944

I need bigger wheels.
<img src="http://boards.rennlist.com/upload/pete1.JPG" alt=" - " />
Interior:
<img src="http://boards.rennlist.com/upload/pete2.JPG" alt=" - " />
<img src="http://boards.rennlist.com/upload/pete4.JPG" alt=" - " />
Full frontal:
<img src="http://boards.rennlist.com/upload/pete5.JPG" alt=" - " />
This is how far my speedo is off:
<img src="http://boards.rennlist.com/upload/pete3.JPG" alt=" - " />

Conor

Looks like your in good company!

PCinDC

The full frontal shot looks great!
Is that a fresh repaint, or just extremely well maintained paint?

pete944

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by 944 Fanatic:
<strong>The full frontal shot looks great!
Is that a fresh repaint, or just extremely well maintained paint?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">It's average paint with a million rock chips. The camera makes it look good.

Ryan Z

my speedo is rele far off....passengers cant tell on the highway tho....they see me doing "100" and tell me to slow the porsche the hell down!

Luis de Prat

I think your wheels look perfect on the car. Nice chunky P-215-60-15 tires are great on all types of surfaces, too.

Jay W

Man, with the speedometer that far off, if your odometer is still working then it is going to show WAY more miles than the car really has. Trying to convince a buyer of this someday will be tricky...

pete944

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by Luis de Prat:
<strong>I think your wheels look perfect on the car. Nice chunky P-215-60-15 tires are great on all types of surfaces, too.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">They're 225/50/15's. The speedo was naturally about 5 mph optimistic. After the tire change it's closer to 10mph.
What speed is everyone else running at 3000rpm in 5th gear?

Kurt

not sure, but i'll gladly find out first-hand!

my speedometer is about 3mph faster than actual speed, at least according to those "your speed is: x" signs

Dales944

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by 944pete:
<strong>What speed is everyone else running at 3000rpm in 5th gear?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">I tried this on my way home from work today - mine reads 84 mph at 3K in 5th.

Ag951

To figure out what your speedometer should read get your tire circumference in inches <a href="http://autocrossing.com/cgi-bin/tiresize.cgi" target="_blank">here</a>, multiply that by your RPMs, and divide by 1056 times the gear ratio times the final drive ratio.

For me its:
225/50-16s (78.09" around)
5th gear 0.83
Final drive 3.38

78.09 * 3000 / (1056 * 0.83 * 3.38) = 79mph
I'll see if that's accurate next time I take her out.

I'm not sure if the n/a models have the same gears, if they do, it should be the same (with the same sized tires).

dave120

NAs dont have the same gears as the turbos. They have a 3.88 final drive as well as most other ratios are different I believe.

Ag951

You can find the gear ratios to five significant figures here:
<a href="http://www.clarks-garage.com/951faq.htm" target="_blank">http://www.clarks-garage.com/951faq.htm</a>
(section 2.3 Transaxle)

ilikemy944

My speedo also shows 79 at 3000rpm, how far off is this exactly?? Running 225/50 15s

Nevermind, hah, left the window open so I hadn't read the last few posts.

osu944

mine also shows 79mph at 3000k. i hate to have the revs so high but i love the extra grip.