If you had a fairly stock carrera S, how would you spend $10k ?

 

What's your goal? Track prowess? Otherwise, I'd not spend a dime - the car is great as it is. I would have the alignment checked and tweaked for a street-only car. When my car was delivered, the alignment was terrible - reworked under warranty (up to 2000 miles). You can get up to about -1 degree camber up front with stock control arms, which will sharpen response slightly, reduce understeer.

What I did (track / street car) is: AWE headers, cats, mufflers, REVO software, GT3 Cup control arms for about -2 degrees, 18" Fikse 13 wheels with RA1s, PFC 97 pads, and SRF fluid. All for about $10k, changed the personality on the track profoundly, and with no impact on warranty (per my dealer who did most of the work).

 

...on a Omega Seamaster Co-axial, a Canon 5D D-SLR with the 50mm f1.2L glass... and have enough left over to take my family on a long weekend to Tahoe...

Oh - you mean on the car? :-)

 

Fancypants carbon-magnesium wheels, lowering springs, maybe satellite radio and/or iPod adaptor.

 

is it bonus time, again?

as with nkhalidi, i'd get dynamag magnesium wheels (~15 lbs each) and oem sports exhaust. unfortunately, that'd pretty much eat the $10k. if some leftover, i'd get the GT3 RS alcantara wheel and shifter. . . and maybe some fuzzy dice to hang from the mirror.

 

Make sure you have the right exhaust sound, put some in the tire replacement fund that will soon be necessary, then head to Vegas for some weekend fun!

 

If I did it all over again, I wouldn't have spent a cent on my car.

 

If I had to do it all over again - I would have what I have now...

 

I'd spend it all on gas, driving the heck out of that thing.

 

hmmm . . . is this buyer's remorse a bit of monday-morning sarcasm? did you end up looking into that M3?

 

Looked into it but couldn't justify pulling the trigger. They're cool cars but it's just not a 911.

I think I've outgrown my 'modifying' stage. There is something special about an unmolested, clean car as the factory intended. I bought the wheels because I needed a second set of winter wheels but ended up buying a truck for bad weather anyway.

The coilovers are nice, I'm sure, but I can't realistically drive the car anywhere near its limits in stock form and they were ultimately an unnecessary expense.

 

well...EVO MS supercharger kit is about $11k

 

GT3 Cup Control Arms front and rear
GT3 Sway bars front and rear
JRZ shocks
Eibach Springs - 500 / 600
PSC Tires
3rd Radiator

 

I'd buy my wife something nice. ...tho' a little more basso profondo out back would be welcome.

 

Well I love driving on the track for fun (DE that kind of thing)...

I would go here from my base C2S:

$850 for a set of spare lobster wheels (working deal now)
$1200 for Hoosier R6 slicks for the lobsters
$500 for Sport Pads for the brakes
$150 stainless brakelines
$15 for DOT 4 fluid like ATE (in the mail to me now)
$199 for X51 third radiator kit (in the mail to me now)
$1600 for the Porsche Sport Hoop in case I roll him shiny side down (man I hope not)
$200 for a nice harness
$85 for a good camera mount (I already have)- fun to watch and learn
$50 for the GT3 brake duct spoilers (on the way to me now)
$175 really solid 4 wheel alignment with me in the car

That is about $5024 for the stuff above

Add in very good quality race gas to avoid detonation and the rest would go to oil changes and track time, and driving instruction... a school might be good too... I am 100% sure my car can do more than I can get out of it even though I have driven a lot...always something to learn... so upgrading me would be helpful also... I am sure the car sighs at me often on the track in dissapointment....