When was the first time you took a ride in a 944 turbo?
07-06-2009, 11:43 PM
#1
Drifting
Thread Starter
When was the first time you took a ride in a 944 turbo?
For me it was at Braman Porsche Miami in May of 1986, it was a Copenhagen blue with a tan leather interior...
07-07-2009, 12:09 AM
#3
samluke gave me a ride in 2002 at a DE. When I got out I simply couldn't imagine ever being able to drive that fast and knew I had to have one.
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07-07-2009, 12:21 AM
#4
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One of my track buddy's father had a silver rose. I was hooked before ever driving one. In 2000 I bought a silver rose sight-unseen, had it delivered from florida. For several days, I just remember thinking, "whoohoohoo, this thing is fast!".
07-07-2009, 12:27 AM
#5
I remember it well
My first time was unforgettable. I was with my parents at a dealership and noticed a gleaming white 951 sitting off in the distance. I asked the salesman whose it was and he said it had just been traded for a Lexus that day. I headed on over to it not noticing that the salesman had followed. After a moment of watching me admire it, he asked if I wanted to take it for a drive.
We pulled out of the dealership and onto a service road and then onto the entrance ramp to the freeway. Neither I nor the salesman could believe the rush as the turbo spooled up and we sped onto the freeway like pebbles being fired from a slingshot. After a few hundred yards I looked over to see the salesman's hands gripping the door pull. I drove about 5 miles and then found somewhere to turn around. The return trip was equally exciting.
We pulled out of the dealership and onto a service road and then onto the entrance ramp to the freeway. Neither I nor the salesman could believe the rush as the turbo spooled up and we sped onto the freeway like pebbles being fired from a slingshot. After a few hundred yards I looked over to see the salesman's hands gripping the door pull. I drove about 5 miles and then found somewhere to turn around. The return trip was equally exciting.
07-07-2009, 01:06 AM
#7
Race Car
When I pulled it out of the junk yard sale. I went down b/c the car was cheap and I wanted to see what the fuss was about with the "buy a turbo" statements. The homemade MBC was turned all the way down so it was a real pig making only about 5 psi.
I already had my supercharged 944 and I wasn't impressed initially with the 951 other than the updated and nicer interior. After filling it with E85 and figuring out the MBC it became clear that there was something to the statements. The car pulled much harder from a roll than my 83.
Now that I have my 87 that is a much nicer car than the 86 I really have come to appreciate the turbo cars.
I still wonder though, what would have been if I stayed with the 83. As much time as Ive spent on the other 2 it may well have been a screamer. It still sits there waiting so patiently for me to get back to it.
I already had my supercharged 944 and I wasn't impressed initially with the 951 other than the updated and nicer interior. After filling it with E85 and figuring out the MBC it became clear that there was something to the statements. The car pulled much harder from a roll than my 83.
Now that I have my 87 that is a much nicer car than the 86 I really have come to appreciate the turbo cars.
I still wonder though, what would have been if I stayed with the 83. As much time as Ive spent on the other 2 it may well have been a screamer. It still sits there waiting so patiently for me to get back to it.
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07-07-2009, 06:17 AM
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About 10 years ago... grey, totally stock, went up from an NA 944... drove it to my mates house, thought my god this is fast, pulled up, whats that smell? I left the handbrake on the whole time. Was faster from that day on...
07-07-2009, 07:21 AM
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As an unprepared rider in Noel Hall's 944 SuperCup track beast during a Cumberland Airport Autocross.
After whacking my helmet on the b-pillar on the first left and Noel's shoulder on the first right, I righted my senses enough to realize that we were on the boost sliding in a four wheel drift through the famous "Cumberland Kink" and headed to this wall of cones with an airport fuel truck parked beyond.
As Noel charged wayyyyyyyyy too deep, he jumped on the ample binders and turned-in, exhorting under his breath with some urgency "Turn B*tch, turn." I remember thinking "Yeah, what HE said....please."
With much chattering, smoking and bouncing and who knows what else, Noel's 86 Black Beauty did turn but the excitement was not over, as he managed to do a low speed "360 degree boosted ground loop" on the way into the stop box.
It's hard to say exactly what I took from this first foray as there was enough other new stuff going on during that lap. Suffice it say I was interested in the 951 from that point forward. Noel eventually rolled that car at Summit Point (A tire wall down toward turn 4 helped, I heard) and having been completely bitten by the bug in the interim, I was able to donate the tub from my 944S parts car to his effort. That car won one of the two rounds of the recent NASA Autobahn race at Hyperest a couple weeks ago...proof positive that if you want to make an omelet you have to be wiling to break some eggs
After whacking my helmet on the b-pillar on the first left and Noel's shoulder on the first right, I righted my senses enough to realize that we were on the boost sliding in a four wheel drift through the famous "Cumberland Kink" and headed to this wall of cones with an airport fuel truck parked beyond.
As Noel charged wayyyyyyyyy too deep, he jumped on the ample binders and turned-in, exhorting under his breath with some urgency "Turn B*tch, turn." I remember thinking "Yeah, what HE said....please."
With much chattering, smoking and bouncing and who knows what else, Noel's 86 Black Beauty did turn but the excitement was not over, as he managed to do a low speed "360 degree boosted ground loop" on the way into the stop box.
It's hard to say exactly what I took from this first foray as there was enough other new stuff going on during that lap. Suffice it say I was interested in the 951 from that point forward. Noel eventually rolled that car at Summit Point (A tire wall down toward turn 4 helped, I heard) and having been completely bitten by the bug in the interim, I was able to donate the tub from my 944S parts car to his effort. That car won one of the two rounds of the recent NASA Autobahn race at Hyperest a couple weeks ago...proof positive that if you want to make an omelet you have to be wiling to break some eggs
07-07-2009, 09:26 AM
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07-07-2009, 10:14 AM
#15
As an unprepared rider in Noel Hall's 944 SuperCup track beast during a Cumberland Airport Autocross.
My first ride was after I'd bought the car to go 944SuperCup racing. Took it to VIR for a shake down test. Before that I'd been a 911 guy. Had never driver or instructed in a 944 of any kind before that day.
The rest is history :-)