Posted on 04/06/2021 6:34:46 AM PDT by mylife
Do you ever get to a point in a multi-year project where you start to lose steam and you’re worried that the thing that used to be a car sitting on your QuickJacks in the garage is rapidly transforming into a really expensive paperweight? Lately that’s how I’ve been feeling about my Boxster. I used to love this car, but then I decided to turn it into an ambitious electrified track car and it’s been in various states of disassembly ever since. Well, over the weekend I hacked off the windshield, and I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited about moving forward with the project.
Illustration for article titled Porsche Put 54 Pounds Of Extra Weight In My Car To Make It Nicer To Drive, So I Threw It Away Porsche Put 12 Pounds Of Extra Weight In My Car To Make It Nicer To Drive, So I Threw It Away There is nothing I despise more than concessions to comfort in a sports car.
The last time I took some weight out of one of my Porsche project cars you folks in the comments section had a lot to say about it. It’s unsafe. It’s not what the German engineers intended. It’s going to completely screw up the handling! And that was just a small anti-vibration weight hanging off the engine mount of an entry level model Porsche forgot about pretty much as soon as it ended production in 1976! I can only imagine what you’ll think of me removing something actually useful like a shield for wind. I bet it’ll be similar to my mother’s reaction when I told her I’d quit my job to become a writer.
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it’s not the streets you gotta worry about...
it’s the idiots that we share them with that’s the problem...
best bike route in tx is 77, no tractor trailers
he needs to become familiar with the blue wrench
I hacked off the birdshield good luck.
It also,’twas’ my first thought! ‘Grate’ minds? :^}
I had to keep a lot of weight in the trunk of my ‘78 Oldsmobile just to keep it from fishtailing on left turns when it was raining :)
that makes sense, and would explain why it never worked for me, thank you, I will try it next time
almost all of the motorcycle wrecks i’ve cleaned up involved cars or pickups, not semis...
drivers just don’t see motorcycle riders...
stupidity on the motorcycle riders part is also a factor in some of these situations...
There was a VW bug at my old dragstrip painted orange called the “Vitamin C”. It had slicks, popped wheelies, and ran 12 second quarter mile times. I do not know if it had Porsche engine parts or not, but it was faster than many of the American V8 muscle cars.
Porsche puts weight in different locations to improve the handling for novice drivers not people building race cars.
The older rear engine Porsches (911) used 2 batteries and put them in the front corners to keep the front down and prevent the rear from changing places with the front.
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