How many people leave thier 951 stock?
01-21-2014, 02:02 PM
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Basic unchanging rules:
Collectors are collectors.
Drivers are drivers.
Modders and Modders
Track people are track people.
You are one or the other of these. if you bought the 89' as a collector car - then put it in your garage and polish it - don't drive it much as that will detract from it value to you as a 'collector car'. If you just like to drive it then just drive it....by now I'm guessing that you know where the rest of this is going!
Collectors are collectors.
Drivers are drivers.
Modders and Modders
Track people are track people.
You are one or the other of these. if you bought the 89' as a collector car - then put it in your garage and polish it - don't drive it much as that will detract from it value to you as a 'collector car'. If you just like to drive it then just drive it....by now I'm guessing that you know where the rest of this is going!
Iam neither of those so who am I?
01-21-2014, 02:15 PM
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01-21-2014, 04:06 PM
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Lart, you are our 'special' child.
Without you, life would be dull and half of us would be walking. You also have a huge advantage over many here, last 44 I saw was over a year ago, ... I traveled 1500 miles to get mine, ... you have a handful in your backyard, so no big deal. I'm all for modding most everything else, bought a new Dodge in '04 and started re-designing it after two weeks. The 951 I bought for the purpose it was already designed for, hi-speed long distance travel on real world roads. Guess if my goal changes, so will the Car setup. As for now, it's 1106 miles to Chicago, got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark out, and I'm wearing Sunglasses ...
Without you, life would be dull and half of us would be walking. You also have a huge advantage over many here, last 44 I saw was over a year ago, ... I traveled 1500 miles to get mine, ... you have a handful in your backyard, so no big deal. I'm all for modding most everything else, bought a new Dodge in '04 and started re-designing it after two weeks. The 951 I bought for the purpose it was already designed for, hi-speed long distance travel on real world roads. Guess if my goal changes, so will the Car setup. As for now, it's 1106 miles to Chicago, got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark out, and I'm wearing Sunglasses ...
01-21-2014, 06:05 PM
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01-22-2014, 12:18 AM
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What would be considered to be in the "low" range of mileage these days on a 951?
I am enjoying the car in its stock form so far. I think some unobtrusive light mods, along with keeping all my stock goodies stashed will be fun and shouldn't do much harm. Luckily, I usually know when to say when! :P The other side of the coin is also pretty fun and cool:Replacing and refreshing with factory stuff. Making everything mint again.
Cool info and opinions.
I am enjoying the car in its stock form so far. I think some unobtrusive light mods, along with keeping all my stock goodies stashed will be fun and shouldn't do much harm. Luckily, I usually know when to say when! :P The other side of the coin is also pretty fun and cool:Replacing and refreshing with factory stuff. Making everything mint again.
Cool info and opinions.
01-22-2014, 12:42 AM
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I know every guy is different and my opinion may not even be valid being that mine is a swapped car and therefore will never be worth anything; but it costs more to return a car to mint than it does to mod it and have fun with it. I think guys are fooling themselves by keeping a car stock and restoring every last detail and telling themselves it will be worth money one day. Best case scenario as I see it, you take a 7-10k dollar car and put 15-20k into restoring it, and now you have a 22-30k dollar car that might be worth 20-25k one day. In my mind, just mod and enjoy. These things were built to go fast, and we as end consumers are not held to the same constraints that Porsche was in the 1980's. We can take a stock car as a good base, and build the car it was always meant to be.
01-22-2014, 01:14 AM
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To answer the OP's question...it is probably about the same number of people who walked on the moon.
01-22-2014, 01:28 AM
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1989 951 with approx 109k (previous owner, father, pressed trip reset while in motion at 104k miles), fix pending. Original everything except stiffer front sway bar, k&n box filter (switching back to OEM), and drive 17 inch wheels. We added three gauge cluster (boost/vac*, AFR, oil temp), to keep better tabs on health, which has been excellent. Have original wheels, oil drain plug, factory amp, sway bar, etc.
Car is in great shape inside and out, conflicted about modifying. I'm not religious about keeping stock, just worry about cause and effect with modifications. Energy is not created or destroyed, just transferred to different forms. Boost the engine and then what happens down the entire drivetrain. I'm not closed to the idea but just really like my car and don't want to prematurely kill it.
* interested to know what people are seeing for cold/warm vacuum readings on 951s.
Car is in great shape inside and out, conflicted about modifying. I'm not religious about keeping stock, just worry about cause and effect with modifications. Energy is not created or destroyed, just transferred to different forms. Boost the engine and then what happens down the entire drivetrain. I'm not closed to the idea but just really like my car and don't want to prematurely kill it.
* interested to know what people are seeing for cold/warm vacuum readings on 951s.
01-22-2014, 02:03 AM
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Its, well... Really 1989 ish sounding!