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Old 04-16-2009, 11:50 PM
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That car looks amazing.

Am I the only one that thinks the kokeln car is nasty?
Old 04-17-2009, 12:04 AM
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^^? Nasty as in nice nasty or just plain nasty?
Old 04-17-2009, 03:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Mike Lindsey
That was Kokeln's ORCA car. Purchased by Todd at
Vortex Supercharger.
Beautiful car! I remember seeing the advertisement for it. Weren't they asking something like $70K for it?
Old 04-17-2009, 06:30 AM
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I love it!

what transmission are they useing?
Old 04-17-2009, 08:36 AM
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Great car and extremely fast on the track...thanks for posting the vid. Hated the music also...why do people mix such crappy music onto these vids? Only thing worse would have been the" Yo- Yo shoot my bitch" variety you hear on a lot of car vids....rant over..
Old 04-17-2009, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by SoloRacer
Beautiful car! I remember seeing the advertisement for it. Weren't they asking something like $70K for it?
$70k would have been cheap for what it cost.

What's the deal with the cutaway front guards behind the wheels?
Old 04-17-2009, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by 333pg333
$70k would have been cheap for what it cost.

What's the deal with the cutaway front guards behind the wheels?
The owner of Vortex Superchargers purchased this car. The asking price and the price it exchanged hands for are miles apart. From what I understand, the new owner is a good guy that enjoys his Porsches water cooled or air cooled.
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Old 04-17-2009, 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by 333pg333
$70k would have been cheap for what it cost.

What's the deal with the cutaway front guards behind the wheels?

I think the idea is to evauate air under the nose to create some from down force like louvers do on prototype cars.

They may work. I don't know.

Overall I hate the look of the car. Just not my tastes. However I do respect that it was created for the purpose of being fast not for being "pretty". So I will refrain from ripping it apart since it is quite fast.
Old 04-17-2009, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by M758
Overall I hate the look of the car. Just not my tastes.
The only thing not to my tastes are the cut-outs behind the front tires. Otherwise, rock on.

+eleventy bajillion on the comments about the music. The engine alone is music enough thank you very much. Let us hear it for chrissakes.
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well looking at that video I know what session that ran that car in

Cal Speedway NASA Time Trial March 28, 2009.
Best lap
Session 1 = DNS
Session 2 = 1:50:407
Session 3 = 1:49.322
Session 4 = 1:49.308

It was one one of the fastest cars in the TT group that day.

For compairson in race group that same day a 997 Cup Ran a 1:46 and a radical ran a 1:42 in TT
Results are here.
http://www.mylaps.com/results/showrun.jsp?id=1075755
Old 04-18-2009, 12:42 AM
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Originally Posted by roman944
wow it sounds so awesome

isn't there a user on here with username Martini or something with Martini Racing? maybe I'm wrong

that 951 is sick though
Yup, me.
Old 04-18-2009, 05:43 AM
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That car looks fast!
I like those cutouts behind front wheels.. different tastes.

engine comp. surely looks beautiful..!
Old 04-18-2009, 02:54 PM
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who was the red 951 rival?
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music ruined it
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Music is a matter of taste, nothing more. Why whine about it so much? It's the creation of the video editor and I think he's not going to make the video one more time just to please all those that didn't like the soundtrack.

I'm not too keen about this kind of music either but it really can't be worse than country-music is it?


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