Solution to RMS failure!
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Three Wheelin'
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From: Jacksonville, FL
Solution to RMS failure!
Click on this link, then come back and read my post.
http://www.evporsche.com/
Now, I'm telling all of you, right from the start, I drive a giant weiner, so go easy on me here and enjoy my hypothesis.
1. For starters, I am one of you - '99 Carrera 2 coupe currently with 42,500 miles.
2. This car has not suffered the RMS failure... yet
3. '99 Carrera was the last of the cable accellerators so 2000 and up E-gas engines will not work as direct replacements.
4. I think this idea is cool.
5. If my car is worth next to nothing in the resale market because it is an early 996, then why worry about resale value if I do this?
6. I have a friend who drives a 1985 911 coupe. He drives it because it gives him pleasure despite the fact that it is 24 years old, has only 207 horsepower, and is not a particularly "collectible" year early 3.2L. My point in stating this is if I feel the same about my car, then why trade up?
7. I'll drive my car in its current configuration until RMS or whatever causes it to die.
8. Then...
9. I drive my car daily (less than 30 miles per day, average) and at the occasional DE.
10. I can drive from my house to the track and the hotel on one hypothetical charge.
11. This topic has been posted on every other forum except 996 and 997.
12. I don't care if gas is $4.50 a gallon or $.45 a gallon - it's about NO gas, and clean air from my daily driver.
13. My local utility has the choices of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear.
14. It's cheaper than buying any new Porsche.
15. Yes, I'm serious. Just not today.
http://www.evporsche.com/
Now, I'm telling all of you, right from the start, I drive a giant weiner, so go easy on me here and enjoy my hypothesis.
1. For starters, I am one of you - '99 Carrera 2 coupe currently with 42,500 miles.
2. This car has not suffered the RMS failure... yet
3. '99 Carrera was the last of the cable accellerators so 2000 and up E-gas engines will not work as direct replacements.
4. I think this idea is cool.
5. If my car is worth next to nothing in the resale market because it is an early 996, then why worry about resale value if I do this?
6. I have a friend who drives a 1985 911 coupe. He drives it because it gives him pleasure despite the fact that it is 24 years old, has only 207 horsepower, and is not a particularly "collectible" year early 3.2L. My point in stating this is if I feel the same about my car, then why trade up?
7. I'll drive my car in its current configuration until RMS or whatever causes it to die.
8. Then...
9. I drive my car daily (less than 30 miles per day, average) and at the occasional DE.
10. I can drive from my house to the track and the hotel on one hypothetical charge.
11. This topic has been posted on every other forum except 996 and 997.
12. I don't care if gas is $4.50 a gallon or $.45 a gallon - it's about NO gas, and clean air from my daily driver.
13. My local utility has the choices of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear.
14. It's cheaper than buying any new Porsche.
15. Yes, I'm serious. Just not today.
Last edited by Thundertub; Jan 5, 2009 at 01:49 PM.
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Three Wheelin'
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From: Jacksonville, FL
I agree. Most of those body conversions are not my taste. But the power plant swap to full electric is very intriguing.
Whether I use gas or electric, the carbon footprint is still not zero, obviously, because the power plant that provides the juice has to consume something. But at least I don't directly have to worry about daily changes in fuel prices because of political crisis' happening on the other side of the world.
An all-electric 996 would certainly qualify as a "sleeper." I might even be tempted to turn on the radio that came with the car. I have that CD that came out years ago with recordings of Porsche motor sounds. I could play it while I'm driving and I would be the only one listening to the sounds of a race car. Think of the benefit this would have in Switzerland and Austria where they have extreme sound abatement laws and requirements for auto's. No sport mufflers there! Now the noise would only be on the INSIDE!
Whether I use gas or electric, the carbon footprint is still not zero, obviously, because the power plant that provides the juice has to consume something. But at least I don't directly have to worry about daily changes in fuel prices because of political crisis' happening on the other side of the world.
An all-electric 996 would certainly qualify as a "sleeper." I might even be tempted to turn on the radio that came with the car. I have that CD that came out years ago with recordings of Porsche motor sounds. I could play it while I'm driving and I would be the only one listening to the sounds of a race car. Think of the benefit this would have in Switzerland and Austria where they have extreme sound abatement laws and requirements for auto's. No sport mufflers there! Now the noise would only be on the INSIDE!
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From: Hyde Park, NY
Hehe. I've seen some 914s that have been converted to electric.
Personally, I've always had a fantasy of converting an old 912 or something to electric. However, I'm in the north-east... so I require heated seats and good cabin heat - things that are a compromise for a good electric car. Also, in general - at least compared to older 911s - the 996 has a lot of electrical components that will draw power.
Personally, I've always had a fantasy of converting an old 912 or something to electric. However, I'm in the north-east... so I require heated seats and good cabin heat - things that are a compromise for a good electric car. Also, in general - at least compared to older 911s - the 996 has a lot of electrical components that will draw power.