Project Orange - The Beast is Born
01-20-2008, 08:47 AM
#46
BEAUTIFUL! Congrats and enjoy it fully.
01-20-2008, 04:22 PM
#52
oh yeah...that works! 
I am finally a proud father after 13 months. Here are a few snaps. I love the color (Blood Orange) and my first impressions are excellent. All I am waiting on is organising the ecu remap and the heater blower delete and bypass tube. I also have not been able to weigh her - I am really looking forward to that. I will give you my impressions once I have remapped and can push her. By the way, let me repeat what you all know - stay alert.
I took my baby for a spin early this morning (for those Hong Kongers I was driving towards Sai Kung from the Sai Kung Country Park) and was on a twisty slow stretch sitting patiently behind a taxi that was driving sensibly. From memory we were doing about 30 kph max 40 going around a blind curve when all of a sudden a Mazda 121 came the other way but fully and squarely on the wrong side of the road. The poor cabby did not have a chance to brake. Luckily both drivers could walk with what appeared to be chest bruising from their seat belts. I managed to stop without incident - did not even stall. Drive sharp and alert.
I have to give thanks for being able to have such car. I also have to give a very big thank you to this wonderful board and some very helpful and special people here, without whom I would not have been able to conceive and enjoy this wonder.
Take care,
I took my baby for a spin early this morning (for those Hong Kongers I was driving towards Sai Kung from the Sai Kung Country Park) and was on a twisty slow stretch sitting patiently behind a taxi that was driving sensibly. From memory we were doing about 30 kph max 40 going around a blind curve when all of a sudden a Mazda 121 came the other way but fully and squarely on the wrong side of the road. The poor cabby did not have a chance to brake. Luckily both drivers could walk with what appeared to be chest bruising from their seat belts. I managed to stop without incident - did not even stall. Drive sharp and alert.
I have to give thanks for being able to have such car. I also have to give a very big thank you to this wonderful board and some very helpful and special people here, without whom I would not have been able to conceive and enjoy this wonder.
Take care,
01-20-2008, 09:31 PM
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Thanks to everyone for their very kind words and again to this tremendous community and resource without which this baby would not be what she is.
Jimmy, the specs for the Volk TE37 are 8.5 inch fronts and 11 inch rears. I am not sure about the offset but this should not be an issue as Volk make a version of the TE37 especially for Ps. The color is a special order matte black. These wheels picked me. There is no other wheel that I know of with their low weight and very reasonable price (USD2,460 when I ordered them late 2006), and I like the look. At 71.9 lbs for a set of 8.5s and 10.5s, the only wheels I know of for P road use that are lighter are Mathey Racing BBSs (which I think have magnesium centers which I am not mad about for the road) and the carbon fiber Dymags, both costing several times more than the Volks.
Andreas, the transformation was not prompted by anything as sensible as accident damage. I took a perfectly healthy Polar Silver stock tiptronic 1996 and spent way too much money for me because: 1) my dream car is a 993 RSCS; 2) RS's are virtually unobtainable in Hong Kong (there are quite a few but they never come to market and if they did they would be big dollars); 3) Hong Kong also has a horrendous first registration tax which doubles the price of a new car putting something appealing like a 997 GT3 way beyond reach; 4) I wanted something reasonably light and to start with a new car or a RS would be beyond my means; and 5) some recent developments namely the 9M engine products and KW suspension give significantly better performance than their original RS counterparts.
Doug, the color is an old Porsche one, Blutorange aka Blood Orange aka Tangerine, Porsche paint code 018.
Here she is in her previous life (all stock but for the aero kit).
Jimmy, the specs for the Volk TE37 are 8.5 inch fronts and 11 inch rears. I am not sure about the offset but this should not be an issue as Volk make a version of the TE37 especially for Ps. The color is a special order matte black. These wheels picked me. There is no other wheel that I know of with their low weight and very reasonable price (USD2,460 when I ordered them late 2006), and I like the look. At 71.9 lbs for a set of 8.5s and 10.5s, the only wheels I know of for P road use that are lighter are Mathey Racing BBSs (which I think have magnesium centers which I am not mad about for the road) and the carbon fiber Dymags, both costing several times more than the Volks.
Andreas, the transformation was not prompted by anything as sensible as accident damage. I took a perfectly healthy Polar Silver stock tiptronic 1996 and spent way too much money for me because: 1) my dream car is a 993 RSCS; 2) RS's are virtually unobtainable in Hong Kong (there are quite a few but they never come to market and if they did they would be big dollars); 3) Hong Kong also has a horrendous first registration tax which doubles the price of a new car putting something appealing like a 997 GT3 way beyond reach; 4) I wanted something reasonably light and to start with a new car or a RS would be beyond my means; and 5) some recent developments namely the 9M engine products and KW suspension give significantly better performance than their original RS counterparts.
Doug, the color is an old Porsche one, Blutorange aka Blood Orange aka Tangerine, Porsche paint code 018.
Here she is in her previous life (all stock but for the aero kit).
Last edited by TargaTango; 01-21-2008 at 08:06 AM.
01-21-2008, 12:18 AM
#55
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Very, very, very nice. Classy, unique, and BadA but not over the top.
01-21-2008, 04:23 PM
#59
BTW was it Gemballa that did the work or some other shop?
