Congrats to you too! The best color combo right! I see all these aqua blue guys running around saying that they are the best of the breed...but grey/gold is so good we don't need to champion ourselves haha

Thanks! Will reply shortly!

Oh man sounds like I should stay away! I'm in Cupertino, I make it up to Woodside quite a bit, my friend with an Ariel Atom lives up there. Would love to meet up and chat. I'll shoot you a PM.

Sounds like a tub draining of water...this is going to be fun

Thanks! More pics attached to this post

I've been searching the RS market for a while on cars.com on here, on 6speed on Dupont Registry...this one came from Porsche North Scottsdale.

Honestly that's the exact list of mods I'm thinking about as well. Age is just a BS number, I have a feeling these cars make everyone feel like they are 12. I certainly felt that way on my commute in this morning.

 

extremely jealous.
congrats. i hope my luck will turn out to be as good as yours in a year.. in a white one for me =)

 

Something that brings this much joy should never be considered irresponsible...regardless of how you paid for it. Life is short.

Congrats on the beautiful car.

 

Beautiful car !!!! congrats !

 

Wow, very nice. Love the color.

 

Love that color. That Grey on the RS is beautiful.

 

ROFL!

And welcome to the bay area RS club... Nice combo/color... Reminds me of this one:
http://sharkwerks.com/porsche/997-gt...20-wheels.html



You'll obviously don't listen to any of these guys. The car needs nada

In terms of the coolant pipe failures... It's certainly rarer on the MK2s however it has and does happen. My blue/orange one did it on the dyno (sorry EVO!) and spewed it all-over the rollers.

This guide might help ya out
http://sharkwerks.com/porsche/porsch...10-2011-a.html

 

Keep your head down and keep on trucking, my uncle once told me "luck favors the prepared"

thanks everyone!

Wow...that project and the tuning guide is giving me some really bad ideas! I need to get this thing to a few track days in stock form first but I've been told by more than one person that your exhaust is the one to get

Thanks for the links and the kind feed back.

I also wanted to share another picture...I haven't been able to stop driving this car. I take it everywhere...when it's not raining that is. I've been driving it so much that a few nights ago it was a beer and pizza delivery vehicle for Thurs night football at a friend's place.

 

Congrats.

 

It is even more fun in the rain.... Of course being in the Northwet... if we only drove our Porsches would have Ferrari milage.

 

hi - I have a grey bay area RS also and am going to COTA Feb 1-3. Saw you might be also - do you want to coordinate on transport options?

 

Yes. Yes I do. Let's move to PMs...

 

Beautiful RS!! Go to the track all stock first and have fun. I bet you will have ideas how to empty your wallet fast with mods. Every month has been xmas for me

 

Whoa......very nice. My dream car...........

 

Bump from the dead.

Since I got the car, I bought savyboy's Rays Centerlocks + Trofeo R's. Took those and the car over to BRRacing to get the wheels and tires mounted balanced, got a GMG bar and Schroth harnesses, and aligned the car to spec.

Wheels waiting to get mounted & balanced


BRR's shop definitely impressed me. When I visited there were a smattering of cup cars, a 430 Scuderia, a couple of R8s, and some older German metal as well. Bruce and Robb are super knowledgeable about RSs, very helpful and I felt like they were total straight shooters. And when I saw this crazy tire mounting machine I knew they were serious:




This might be old news to some of you guys, but the place I used to get my RX-7 wheels and tires mounted (265/18 front 285/18 rear) did it the "normal" way with bars and wrenches on a machine similar to this, but smaller. I always leave with a few new scratches despite the shop's best efforts.

These pics aren't the best cell phone pics but you can see some of the magic robot arms that guide the tire onto the rim with no issues. When I left the shop the wheels looked just as they did when I pulled them out of the box.

Finally - I installed them Sunday evening so I don't have many pictures of them, but here's yet another crappy cell phone pic at night of the front wheel...



The real reason I wanted to write this post is to thank this forum and the amazing people on it. As my join date might indicate, even though I've only had the car for 3 months, I've been lurking, reading, and learning everything I can and I've PM'ed quite a few of you random stupid questions and I always get answers. I love this place.

I have to call out savyboy and Eddie@RPW because I bought stuff off of them due to their reps on the forums. Transactions couldn't have gone smoother, it's amazing what dealing with true professionals really is like (again in the RX-7 world there's a lot of kids that have a lot of growing up to do). And of course, a big shout out to BRRacing who got everything that I can't do in my garage done for me

Track pics coming soon too