Anyone actually do a 3.8 conversion yet?
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3.8 X-51 Conversion
Originally Posted by stedge
Would love to know results and comments?
Anyone buy one of FL GTRs?
Thanks.
Anyone buy one of FL GTRs?
Thanks.
Here's a link to a sound byte. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkxPyoU13SM
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Originally Posted by Greg964
Wow, what does a conversion like that cost? A few months back Excellence featured a Boxster S with a Ruf X51 conversion.
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I guess Farnbacher Loles also does a Cayman 3.8L X51 conversion, albeit significantly more costly. Road and Track drove it last year:
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article....rticle_id=3551
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article....rticle_id=3551
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Originally Posted by Greg964
I guess Farnbacher Loles also does a Cayman 3.8L X51 conversion, albeit significantly more costly. Road and Track drove it last year:
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article....rticle_id=3551
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article....rticle_id=3551
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I saw this car in San Diego. It's sick. It's amazing how they got the 3.8 to look totally factory. If you put OEM silver wheels on this, its a total sleeper. Pricewise people have put way more money into a Porsche for a lot less power to weight ratio and much less dependability.
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Originally Posted by bet
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Why the front end conversion? Just because you like the look better or does it offer some type of aero and/or cooling advantage? Just curious.
Why the front end conversion? Just because you like the look better or does it offer some type of aero and/or cooling advantage? Just curious.
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Originally Posted by Mind Over Motorsports
...then they hear something...a sound so menacing they look in all directions since it couldn't be coming from that Cayman...except when they look back, and even before they can depress their own go pedal, the Cayman is lonnng gone....and they wonder? Was it ever there?
Sweet sound, by the way. A 3.8 Cayman S is my dream car.
(..ok, one of them..)
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Originally Posted by ELUSIVE
It's funny...I actually prefer the front end of the Cayman/Boxster to that of the 997 and I have a 997.
the boxster, cayman headlights have that additional flair. i think it's a backwards step they took in the aesthetics dept along this front.
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Orbit racing in Florida has done 3.8 conversions.
I was quoted roughly 25k to do Boxster 987S and they keep your motor as a core.
I was quoted roughly 25k to do Boxster 987S and they keep your motor as a core.