Dan@SharkWerks

Hey guys,
The April '09 Excellence is starting to hit shelves and its cover story is a neat one: Blakt Out's supercharged 997S vs. SharkWerks' Cayman S RS350 vs. a modified 997 Turbo. The authors drive the three cars for days, over hundreds of miles along the coast of northern California and there are many beautiful pictures in the magazine.

It's a good roundup of the benefits of each platform and shows what you might expect from each as a street car if you choose to modify the engine, suspension, and chassis.

There's a preview of the article on Excellence's site here.



Subscribers should be receiving the magazine any day, and it will be on shelves soon after.

blakt out

Dan,

You beat me everywhere! LOL!

It was an awesome time. The mail just came. No mag. Darnit. I live on the east coast!

Jared

gota911

I'll bet you can't wait to see what that supercharged black 997S looks like in print!

sharkster

Thanks fellas, Jarod's car is a beast for sure!

blakt out

Thanks Alex. Lemme tell ya. If I had a Cayman S, I'd send it out to California in a heartbeat! You guys did some amazing stuff to that car.

If I weren't halfway across the world from you, you'd know my car very, very well!

As you can read in the article, your car shocked me. Not from power, but from balance. And I've driven, on a track, a modded Cayman S. Your car was special.

I know that you've had many cars in mags, but this is my first time ever! I can mark it off my "Life's to-do" list! (I really do have it on my list!) And the fact that I actually got to be one of the test drivers! So awesome!

(Not to mention that my baby, that I have sorted out myself, did well! I have had 4 suspensions, 4 exhausts, etc on that car, just trying to get it perfect. That's a big part of why I feel so happy!)

fjpdds

Can't wait to see that issue. Sounds like a really cool collection. Especially involving a fellow R'lister.
(and a little story about some MPSC's I bought from blakt out).

Cope

I received mine today and I just finished reading the articles on your car Jared. Seems you have one really nice 997. I thought you did a good job on your write-up as well.

blakt out

Wow. Well thank you very much... both on the car comment, and maybe even more on the write up compliment. I really tried hard on that. Twas my chance to look silly or actually get to tell what I thought.

Thanks again.

sharkster

Again thank you ever so much mate. That means a lot coming from you- I can't imagine most people having the car you have even giving anything else a chance but you did thankfully! The Synergy folks really managed to make a car that's deadly for the track and yet so sweet on the street at the same time. So very hard to do. I love the times you can pull with that thing (and it's stereo hehe).

The exhaust.. we need a video of that:P

They put so much work (ahem...) into it. This was no "beauty" photoshoot that's for sure and they really racked up some good test miles. Really rare for a mag to do even do that these days.