Kiwi Carguy

Welcome aboard Stueysv8s!! Gotta post some pics of those Cayenne's

O2GO

Sorry, can't get images to upload to RL from here in Picton. Poor internet service but Facebook works do have uploaded some photos to the RSG facebook group.

Dave kindly gave me a fresh crayfish for dinner!!! How's that! So dinner was fresh cray all to myself ", local Sav (hic). Oh and bread for my veges. Perfect :-)

Macca

Stu good to meet you.

John and Doug have Cayennes as tow cars so you are in good company!

Doug. That type aircon is all you need IMO. I have no idea what the difference is with "climate control" anyhows!

Sounds like the trip is working out well and the car is all you hoped for. Drive safe and see you Wed before 8am at the rendezvous!

O2GO

Welcome from me too. I've had my NA Cayenne S v8 for 7 years. What a great machine. Even did a track day at Puke in her and surprised several 911 drivers! They are a bit misunderstood and under rated until you own and really drive one. There's now several of us on this board who do "know" ;-)

You'll be loving the price of gas now :-)

Kiwi Carguy

The LCD's actually go in them anyway. Done one replacement LCD panel for a friend a wee while ago.

peterC2S

Doug - is the sports exhaust switchable - ie, like mine you have to hit the button to make it loud? If so I came across a kit from Carnewal which allows it to be left in loud mode - €150.

Looking forward to seeing the red in the flesh!!

O2GO

Anyone driving south past Kaikoura needs to make time to meet up with David (shiraz). Passionate about his 993 manual - finding it and buying it is a story unto itself. Being the only p-car enthusiast like us in the area he's keen to meet and share a run with others of us traveling through. Plus, being brought up here he knows the best local driving roads. They're good. He can peddle nicely too ;-P

Macca

Yes David is good people. I think I may feature in that story somewhere, its a 993 after all LOL. David helped me out when I needed spare pads for SITT....

Pete. Latest "spy" pics of Cayman GT4 released today. Without camo! They were taken near Stuttgart. Belief is this is final production aesthetic with likely the real wheel design braking cover at launch (assumed Geneva March 2015). Looking good I reckon. Unique front and rear valence and rear spoiler as well as GT3/Turbo mirrors etc.

O2GO

Yeah, you'll like the red inside Pete - ha ha.

We need some red on red action (sounds dodgy but I mean later model DFI Cayman S with bells on vs old school Boxster S RS60). He'll win of course. Better performing machine and driver.

Are you going to get the kit?

When you first start it loud mode is on until vacuum pressure is enough to close it (or something like that). That's why initial seconds after starting is louder then it quietens. I leave for the gym at 6:30am weekdays so think I'll preserve neighbourly relations and leave it as is for now anyway. I read on RL recently a how to disable the loud off mode yourself. Seemed pretty simple and can be undone. Couple of wires disconnected under the dash somewhere. Read about it on the boxster forum I think.

Kiwi Carguy

Looks like a mini GT3!

Macca

Jamie. I think that's what they are aiming for aesthetically, however we are all hoping they haven't backed off at that and have gone the full monty and put the 3.8 engine in with around 400 bhp. If its all looks but only makes 370bhp will be some very disappointed punters. Retail pricing is the other unknown and the bit that everyone is watching closely. If they pitch it too close to 80K GBP with options then you may as well go GT3 for 100K GBP (although the GT3 ends production before the GT4 is unveiled so they are crafty aye!). In NZ it will be interesting to see where they pitch this at Retail. If its where i suspect then it will cost 20K more to get into this car than it did for me to get into a GT3 which is insane. Time will tell...

Yes Doug/Pete its vacuum operated valve and easy to unplug from within the engine bay at least on 997.2 & 991 GT3 so i assume similar for boxster. the Carnewal kit gives you the benefit of a remote for turning it on and off as you wish I believe, but you can permanently turn if on full time for just a little of your own time...no saving the neighbours tho Doug - if its like the GT3 then when stone cold those valves take around 8-10 seconds to close and quieten down the car - by then all are awake LOL!

shiraz

Macca , you do feature in there -lot of detailed, helpful emails before I bought, cheers.
Test drove cayman s years ago, thought it only needed gt3 415hp to make it really special

kiwi 911

Nice...........

Sounds like you are having an awful time and not really enjoying the car???

peterC2S

I like the idea of it still being switchable rather than always on. If it were easy to reverse the switch so default was on and you had to press the button to turn off then that would be ideal - the kit effectively does that as it remembers your last setting when the car was turned off. So I probably will (until the 13th rocks around and I get to hear Pete M's Borla again....!!

GT4 looks awesome - could be the perfect car but a big wedge to commit...

pcarplayer

To be honest the thought of it is a little scary, though it wouldn't stop me

LOL

Nice one Doug. Car looks spot on. The run over the Hundalee's was alway a favourite day ride when used to ride bikes on the road. Sadly the only other time i've done it in a sporting car was my brothers 750 hp GTR. Too peaky and far to much for those hills