FBIII

In about 1980 I bought a 72 Pantera. Went out to pick up the Pantera in my soon to be sold 1970
911S. On the way home I was very interested to see which was faster. I was driving my 911, my friend the Pantera. I took of and was ringing the little revver through the gears and was absolutely killing the Pantera. At about 120 I hear a roar and the Pantera went flying by. We slowed and I asked my bud how the hell I could kill him up to 100+ and at about 120 he was stomping me. He said when we started he just left it in fifth gear. I don't care how fast you are but if you are three gears above where you should be your going to get smoked.

Tom Rathjen

Hmmm. I have a Cayenne (main car) and a 928 (project car). So not sure if I feel happy for the asian kid or sad for heinrich and the 928. At least it's all in the Porsche family.

IcemanG17

hmm
strap on & whoop you *** in one sentence.....maybe I'm just a perv

CayenneS......385hp and nearly 5000lbs.....it shouldn't even be close.....however it does go to show the power of MOMENTUM....that 5000lbs was running at you before you noticed.....thats quite a bit to overcome at cruise speed in 4th....

M. Requin

Made my day guys!!! Not that this grandad drives fast anymore, but do you understand "vicarious"? Time for a PBR break...

cobalt

There must be more wrong than what you say. The Cayenne S is a quick SUV but most any 928 should pull on it. I found my Cayenne turbo to be slightly faster than my GTS but not much although when you downshift the CT and all the torque comes on at once it launches that 5000 pounds awfully quickly. Not sure if the GTS will keep up with it when the boost kicks in hard although the GTS has tons of torque and power too when you drop it a bgear and bring the revs up.

morganabowen

That must be the same 9 year old Asian kid in a white Cayman S that dumped my a$$ last year in THE OC Couldn't show my face for a month I will no longer get into a pissing contest with anyone under the age of 15

goffaramma

At least the Asian kid was driving a Porsche. Every time I see a kid fly by me (no matter what their race) they're usually driving a souped up Civic or Eclipse... except for the one time a dude flew by me in an Aston Martin. I floored it to catch up with him (quite quickly if I do say so myself) and to my surprise the driver couldn't have been more than 20 years old. Damn rich kids.

Mongo

At least you didn't get destroyed by a turbo Cayenne like I did one night. I would never race Cayennes again after that...

AO

You need boost.

PorKen

But you will still have to shift down to build boost.

The auto is a superior street racer. It will shift down one or two gears in a blink of an eye, and would have put the squeeze on that pepper fo' sure.

The five speed is great - if you have time to plan ahead.

cobalt

Yeah but the Cayenne shifts just as quick. Just stomp on the pedal and it will amaze you.

Mako 928

All is not lost. We can still hold our heads high. 1985 928S vs. 2008 GTS

anonymousagain

Ken, while you're correct with the speed of shifts in the auto, I dread that brief bog initially shifting into 3rd with just a bit too much gap between gears.

Nail it while still in the top of 2nd and woohoo! for the cams, but I avoid any play time beginning in the 80-90 range...90+ and we're back in business.

...then again, Sata still has stock exhaust, so I'm expecting the x-pipe with your EZR'r will clean-up lower-3rd ...I take back what I said, 86.5 auto's rock

dprantl

Someone bring a Cayenne Turbo to SITM. Then I can show them what a real 928 is all about

Dan
'91 928GT S/C 475hp/460lb.ft

PorKen

True, true. That's why, these days, I've been trying to keep my exhaust quiet, so I can go full throttle with a little less fanfare.

In this case, the spice truck had too much energy for Heinrich to have had much of a chance, even with his 50ftlb RMB.


Yep, there is a dead zone where it feels like you're standing still. The X-pipe helps, but mostly at the top end. A little cam advance works well, too, but then there's less on top if you wind it out.

A looser torque converter would be nice. Now that I have a 5-speed for longer trips, I might have my converter modified...