Help! Boxster S vs Elise
09-14-2004, 11:36 PM
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Better add 200lbs to that figure.
And, easily supercharged? Perhaps, but reliably for track use? And, the blower kit will most likely be centrifugal not a positive displacement unit, so the car will not gain any appeciable tq down low and suffer from heat soak depending on how efficient the air water heat exchanger system is engineered.
But anyway, a great car, but I didn't find the car to be as life changing as the mags contend. Without LSS, it understeer really badly, low speed and high speed. The car is tuned in such a way that to run sticky tires, you'll have to run LSS or an aftermaket setup according to the brits.
I'd prefer the more hardcore version, the Exige. But by the time that arrives in the US, it will be after the federal exemptions are up, so it'll be heavy.
And, easily supercharged? Perhaps, but reliably for track use? And, the blower kit will most likely be centrifugal not a positive displacement unit, so the car will not gain any appeciable tq down low and suffer from heat soak depending on how efficient the air water heat exchanger system is engineered.
But anyway, a great car, but I didn't find the car to be as life changing as the mags contend. Without LSS, it understeer really badly, low speed and high speed. The car is tuned in such a way that to run sticky tires, you'll have to run LSS or an aftermaket setup according to the brits.
I'd prefer the more hardcore version, the Exige. But by the time that arrives in the US, it will be after the federal exemptions are up, so it'll be heavy.
