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Old 06-20-2012, 07:19 PM
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Old 06-20-2012, 07:34 PM
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Buckets with Green stitching were not made, but you can get them custom made. They would be hard to sell later on when you sell the car, unless you give them away with the car.

Yellow seat belts look horrible. Door pulls are a gimmick, insignificant weight savings, and ugly looking. Yellow calipers are ugly too. I would custom paint the calipers in the same Avocado shade, do a photoshop and you will like it.

Lose the heavyweight side mufflers, lose the pig heavy seats, lose the heavy battery, the car will lose close to 120 lbs and go faster, look better, and sound much better.
Old 06-20-2012, 08:26 PM
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A member on another forum is looking into the seats with green stitching for me.

The car already has the RSS x-pipe, but I wouldn't mind upgrading to the Akrapovic Sports Cup system.
Old 06-21-2012, 02:50 AM
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How far can you recline the passenger seat back with the roll bar. Always been curious if it can even be reclined when the roll bar is in there.
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Not sure. I'm sure someone else can answer this. Or I'll check when my car gets here.
Old 06-21-2012, 03:23 AM
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Congrats! Great car - love the color

Green stitching is cool, but personally I wouldn't bother trying to get it on you buckets. Contrary to above I think yellow calipers with green looks great. But my vote is no on yellow belts. I considered it briefly but ended switching red for black. Yellow belts plus green stitching plus green bar
Old 06-21-2012, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by aero997c2s
Yes it has been well taken care of, seen it in person many times. Ken still has a set of BBS LM-R that fit it too!
I helped Ken with flipping his brake pads at VIR Zone 2 DE in March. Wow, what a car.
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Originally Posted by GT3DE
I helped Ken with flipping his brake pads at VIR Zone 2 DE in March. Wow, what a car.

I helped Ken with flipping his RS with a magnificent 430 Scuderia.
Old 06-21-2012, 02:09 PM
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like 2 peas in a pod
Old 06-21-2012, 04:43 PM
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Congrats, I am green with envy!

If you want buckets with matching stitching, call Speedwear (ironically not far from where you got the car); they have some limited edition Sparco RS-DTM carbon seats that will match yours perfectly!!! Very reasonably priced too...

I have no affiliation either, I just really want to see pictures of these seats finally married to one of these cars.

http://www.speedwaremotorsports.com/...at-0099amgapnr



Old 06-21-2012, 08:26 PM
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Congrats on your purchase, I almost bought this car myself but Ken and I couldn't align our schedules so I ended up with a pumpkin.

Great car with a classy prior owner, can't do much better.
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azcarguy-I am assuming you are in Arizona? If so, did you buy the pumpkin for North Scottsdale Porsche?
If so, she is a beaut!
OP - congrats!
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Thank you. Wish I could have bought it directly from him as it probably would have been a better deal for both of us, but Ferrari of Washington was also great to deal with.
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Originally Posted by duc916sps
azcarguy-I am assuming you are in Arizona? If so, did you buy the pumpkin for North Scottsdale Porsche?
If so, she is a beaut!
OP - congrats!
Yep Tucson, and I did buy the PNS pumpkin. And thanks, I'm enjoying it so far.
Old 06-22-2012, 11:12 AM
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I'm quite flattered that many rennlisters know me by name and personally because of the ownership of two awesome 911s. Ara, you're getting a great RS and hope you got a great deal too. Shoot me an email if you have any questions. The previous owner 355michael is also here but he doesn't come online much.

I'd go with OEM bucket seats because I think they look the best with CF backs and fits me well (5'11'', 150lbs dude). Original parts always wins unless they are the faulty ones such as coolant hoses. If you're feeling spendy, I'd go for Carrera GT seats. Jon70 had them in his old RS and those look ridiculously nice!

Originally Posted by aero997c2s
Yes it has been well taken care of, seen it in person many times. Ken still has a set of BBS LM-R that fit it too!
He's right. Buy my rims! I need to find my thread again, actually.

Originally Posted by GT3DE
I helped Ken with flipping his brake pads at VIR Zone 2 DE in March. Wow, what a car.
Clark, I plan to be at Zone 2 again with Adam next year even if we won't have Porsches. Rad should do a road trip and join the fun as well.

Originally Posted by azcarguy
Congrats on your purchase, I almost bought this car myself but Ken and I couldn't align our schedules so I ended up with a pumpkin.

Great car with a classy prior owner, can't do much better.
Congrats Marc!


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