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Old 09-10-2013, 04:51 PM
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Check out those sport buckets and try not to drool!
Old 09-10-2013, 05:17 PM
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The $10,500 front axle lift makes the one on the 991 GT3 at only $3490 look like a bargain! The buckets look great, BTW.....
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How far up do the 918 front lift LIFT THE 918 UP? Not some measely 1.5 inches like their own does on the GT3, which is sad compared to some off the shelf offerings. Just silly that those none OEM offerings go much farther up than what Porsche is offering which is silly to me at least.
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If these are the 991RS seats I may have to buy the car.
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Originally Posted by Mike in CA
The $10,500 front axle lift makes the one on the 991 GT3 at only $3490 look like a bargain! The buckets look great, BTW.....
64k for the pain, 30k for wheels. I feel so poor.
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Originally Posted by Tacet-Conundrum
How far up do the 918 front lift LIFT THE 918 UP? Not some measely 1.5 inches like their own does on the GT3, which is sad compared to some off the shelf offerings. ...
According to the configurator, the front lift "raises the body via the PASM dampers on the front axle by 30 mm (1.2 in)", which is the same as the 991 GT3. Sorry to be the bearer of such very sad news.

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Originally Posted by TRAKCAR
64k for the pain, 30k for wheels. I feel so poor.
If you skip the vinyl wrap and just go for the Martini treatment in white, you can get the lightweight package + the mag wheels for "only" an extra $84K. Feeling richer? ;-)
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Originally Posted by TRAKCAR
64k for the pain, 30k for wheels. I feel so poor.
You only live once. I came to that conclusion after having my fourth seizure in four months back in 2004 when I fractured my C3 and C7 Vertabrae during that last ordeal, in which I spent five days in Hospital. That's when I came to the conclusion that life was too short to live it to the best of my ability and at no matter what cost.

My now ex, but still one of my best friends, had a tumor the size of a softball in her her head which required two operations at Cedars in LA to fix. She lives by the same mantra but even more so. But she isn't really into cars or DEs. If so I'm certain she would have some type of far out GT3 by now. Now talking about a self made person as a result of her crap she's lived through. She could be a multimillionaire by now if that was her objective but believe it or not there are far greater things in life than simple money. Like true love, caring and giving of one's self and you can fix everything or make everyone holy with simple money.
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Originally Posted by mcsmcs1
Check out those sport buckets and try not to drool!

must drool, RS I beg of you...
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very sweet ... BUT ... they look like fixed back seats? - in the past N.A has not had access to GT3 fixed back seats due (AFAIK) to the fact they do not pass DOT ...

oh look ... my glass is half empty!
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Saweeeeet!
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Originally Posted by Mike in CA
The $10,500 front axle lift makes the one on the 991 GT3 at only $3490 look like a bargain! The buckets look great, BTW.....
And IMO a must have option for driven 918s
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Originally Posted by Mike in CA
If you skip the vinyl wrap and just go for the Martini treatment in white, you can get the lightweight package + the mag wheels for "only" an extra $84K. Feeling richer? ;-)
Is this the first time in history a manufacture has offered a Wrap on top of the paint?
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Like the GT3, the 918 has 4 wheel steering too.



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