RE: Autofarm Porsche Cayman ‘RS’
Discussion
vz-r_dave said:
morgrp said:
Great motor but bin the "ricer rims"
Ricer rims, you mean some of the lightest wheels in the world?Edited by morgrp on Monday 12th January 16:51
What would be your choice
t about the weight of wheels - other than geeks with too much time on their hands - not saying they're bad wheels - They look good - but not on a Porsche pleaseEdited by morgrp on Wednesday 14th January 09:54
Warick Hunt said:
blueyes said:
blueyes said:
Warick Hunt said:
I am struggling with the point of it? it looks like every other flat beetle on the road...30 odd years old.
Before I explain........Obviously you haven't driven this one, but how would you compare your driving experience of the standard Cayman S to the current 911?Don't tell me you haven't driven either!
Your numerous anti-Porsche posts display an unfathomable hatred for the marque. Either you were nearly knocked off your pushbike by one or you are a troll.
To blueeyes and Robin:
Everything on this website--and I do mean EVERYTHING--is judged first and foremost on how it looks. I've seen articles here on pure race cars as well as track specials in which some of the comments will only or mainly criticize their looks. Welcome to PistonHeads: Interior Decorators matter.
Miguel
Everything on this website--and I do mean EVERYTHING--is judged first and foremost on how it looks. I've seen articles here on pure race cars as well as track specials in which some of the comments will only or mainly criticize their looks. Welcome to PistonHeads: Interior Decorators matter.
Miguel
I'd be lying if i didnt think the wheels were controversial, in fact thats one of the reasons i fitted them. I have other, more traditional items coming soon though. They are very light though.
This car was built for a purpose, to put no too fine a point on it, i wanted to kick a GT3 RS's arse!! And this will and then some.
Call me a geek or whatever, but we knew what we were doing when we put this concept together. Michael Schumacher may of won 7 world titles, but without Ross and Brawn (the engineers/geeks) that wouldn't of been possible.
Positive and negative, all comments are welcome and i am listening. Thanks to this discussion thread alone we had over 500 page views on our website by half ten this morning!!!
The world needs people to rock the boat a little, just to make it interesting.
If your in any doubt though, and the Cayman is a car you have or thinking of getting. Why not come along for a test drive/ride and give us your feedback. I will be aiming to attend a few Porsche Ace Cafe meets and PCGB track days throughout the year with the car and i welcome your views.
This car was built for a purpose, to put no too fine a point on it, i wanted to kick a GT3 RS's arse!! And this will and then some.
Call me a geek or whatever, but we knew what we were doing when we put this concept together. Michael Schumacher may of won 7 world titles, but without Ross and Brawn (the engineers/geeks) that wouldn't of been possible.
Positive and negative, all comments are welcome and i am listening. Thanks to this discussion thread alone we had over 500 page views on our website by half ten this morning!!!
The world needs people to rock the boat a little, just to make it interesting.
If your in any doubt though, and the Cayman is a car you have or thinking of getting. Why not come along for a test drive/ride and give us your feedback. I will be aiming to attend a few Porsche Ace Cafe meets and PCGB track days throughout the year with the car and i welcome your views.
subzero said:
I'd be lying if i didnt think the wheels were controversial, in fact thats one of the reasons i fitted them. I have other, more traditional items coming soon though. They are very light though.
This car was built for a purpose, to put no too fine a point on it, i wanted to kick a GT3 RS's arse!! And this will and then some.
Call me a geek or whatever, but we knew what we were doing when we put this concept together. Michael Schumacher may of won 7 world titles, but without Ross and Brawn (the engineers/geeks) that wouldn't of been possible.
Positive and negative, all comments are welcome and i am listening. Thanks to this discussion thread alone we had over 500 page views on our website by half ten this morning!!!
The world needs people to rock the boat a little, just to make it interesting.
If your in any doubt though, and the Cayman is a car you have or thinking of getting. Why not come along for a test drive/ride and give us your feedback. I will be aiming to attend a few Porsche Ace Cafe meets and PCGB track days throughout the year with the car and i welcome your views.
So you're basically saying that without those wheels the car would be rubbish? I think not - For Joe average like me I very much doubt I'd notice the difference between those and some other "heavier" wheels. I'm in no doubt they are good wheels, light, brilliant blah blah blah - but come on? a little compromise for the sake of style perhaps?This car was built for a purpose, to put no too fine a point on it, i wanted to kick a GT3 RS's arse!! And this will and then some.
Call me a geek or whatever, but we knew what we were doing when we put this concept together. Michael Schumacher may of won 7 world titles, but without Ross and Brawn (the engineers/geeks) that wouldn't of been possible.
Positive and negative, all comments are welcome and i am listening. Thanks to this discussion thread alone we had over 500 page views on our website by half ten this morning!!!
The world needs people to rock the boat a little, just to make it interesting.
If your in any doubt though, and the Cayman is a car you have or thinking of getting. Why not come along for a test drive/ride and give us your feedback. I will be aiming to attend a few Porsche Ace Cafe meets and PCGB track days throughout the year with the car and i welcome your views.
morgrp said:
subzero said:
I'd be lying if i didnt think the wheels were controversial, in fact thats one of the reasons i fitted them. I have other, more traditional items coming soon though. They are very light though.
This car was built for a purpose, to put no too fine a point on it, i wanted to kick a GT3 RS's arse!! And this will and then some.
Call me a geek or whatever, but we knew what we were doing when we put this concept together. Michael Schumacher may of won 7 world titles, but without Ross and Brawn (the engineers/geeks) that wouldn't of been possible.
Positive and negative, all comments are welcome and i am listening. Thanks to this discussion thread alone we had over 500 page views on our website by half ten this morning!!!
The world needs people to rock the boat a little, just to make it interesting.
If your in any doubt though, and the Cayman is a car you have or thinking of getting. Why not come along for a test drive/ride and give us your feedback. I will be aiming to attend a few Porsche Ace Cafe meets and PCGB track days throughout the year with the car and i welcome your views.
So you're basically saying that without those wheels the car would be rubbish? I think not - For Joe average like me I very much doubt I'd notice the difference between those and some other "heavier" wheels. I'm in no doubt they are good wheels, light, brilliant blah blah blah - but come on? a little compromise for the sake of style perhaps?This car was built for a purpose, to put no too fine a point on it, i wanted to kick a GT3 RS's arse!! And this will and then some.
Call me a geek or whatever, but we knew what we were doing when we put this concept together. Michael Schumacher may of won 7 world titles, but without Ross and Brawn (the engineers/geeks) that wouldn't of been possible.
Positive and negative, all comments are welcome and i am listening. Thanks to this discussion thread alone we had over 500 page views on our website by half ten this morning!!!
The world needs people to rock the boat a little, just to make it interesting.
If your in any doubt though, and the Cayman is a car you have or thinking of getting. Why not come along for a test drive/ride and give us your feedback. I will be aiming to attend a few Porsche Ace Cafe meets and PCGB track days throughout the year with the car and i welcome your views.
Would it have been with an extra 2kg at each corner... Yes! BUT, if you want to build the ultimate, then style must be sacrificed! I for one like those wheels an awful lot, although I prefer the look of BBS E28/68s... I even looked at them for my 996 when they were first released for the Porsche, although it has taken me 'til now to admit that on this thread!
There are some people who would pay a lot of money for the ultimate car, regardless of beauty, there are some people who would pay for beauty regardless of performance. Each to their own. I, for one, think it looks great as it is and am salivating at the thought of it!
I am hoping that Autofarm will work some magic on my 996 this year (So, robin, tell Mikey to hurry up with that quote
) and I wouldn't mind those wheels at all... Although, I am waiting for BBS to respond to my email - LOL!Robin - One more question, the engine you have installed here is your 3.7 plus cams package and puts out around 100bhp/l... The cheaper package is without the cams and that is the one I have half an eye on. Have you guys dyno'd that in a 996 yet? I am going to go out on a limb and guess that the standard 996 3.4 puts out 300bhp (88bhp/l) so the 3.7 will put out approximately 335bhp?
Basically, the increase in capacity plus a few more for the unshrouding of the inlet valves... Do you do any headwork when you build them up?
Hopefully I will head up to see you in the next few weeks.
Cheers,
Dom
morgrp said:
For Joe average like me I very much doubt I'd notice the difference between those and some other "heavier" wheels. I'm in no doubt they are good wheels, light, brilliant blah blah blah - but come on? a little compromise for the sake of style perhaps?
I for one appreciate the huge difference savings in unsprung weight makes to a performance car's handling, you should be able to do a lot of improvement to primary and secondary ride characteristics with a saving of 2kg per corner, which is enormous. As the owner posted: this is an engineering exercise, not a stylistic one. I'd imagine that F1 teams don't give a flying feck what their wheels look like as long as they fulfil, or better exceed their performance criteria.
As far as BBS wheels go, I thought BBS made an announcement last year that they were no longer selling to the after-market and were moving to being solely an OEM supplier?
subzero said:
I'd be lying if i didnt think the wheels were controversial, in fact thats one of the reasons i fitted them. I have other, more traditional items coming soon though. They are very light though.
This car was built for a purpose, to put no too fine a point on it, i wanted to kick a GT3 RS's arse!! And this will and then some.
Call me a geek or whatever, but we knew what we were doing when we put this concept together. Michael Schumacher may of won 7 world titles, but without Ross and Brawn (the engineers/geeks) that wouldn't of been possible.
Positive and negative, all comments are welcome and i am listening. Thanks to this discussion thread alone we had over 500 page views on our website by half ten this morning!!!
The world needs people to rock the boat a little, just to make it interesting.
If your in any doubt though, and the Cayman is a car you have or thinking of getting. Why not come along for a test drive/ride and give us your feedback. I will be aiming to attend a few Porsche Ace Cafe meets and PCGB track days throughout the year with the car and i welcome your views.
SubZero the wheels look awesome, some porsche people are stuck in a rut with regardst to style, forunately you are not one of them. Yes BBS LMs look good but they have been done to death and no other wheel that BBS make looks any good plus they all weigh a stack! This car was built for a purpose, to put no too fine a point on it, i wanted to kick a GT3 RS's arse!! And this will and then some.
Call me a geek or whatever, but we knew what we were doing when we put this concept together. Michael Schumacher may of won 7 world titles, but without Ross and Brawn (the engineers/geeks) that wouldn't of been possible.
Positive and negative, all comments are welcome and i am listening. Thanks to this discussion thread alone we had over 500 page views on our website by half ten this morning!!!
The world needs people to rock the boat a little, just to make it interesting.
If your in any doubt though, and the Cayman is a car you have or thinking of getting. Why not come along for a test drive/ride and give us your feedback. I will be aiming to attend a few Porsche Ace Cafe meets and PCGB track days throughout the year with the car and i welcome your views.
Rays have been making wheels for porsche for some time now and there are many cars including full race cars using this wheel including porsche cup teams.
For all the people that think the TE37 Does not suit porsche have a look at the picture below.
or this
or the 19" version
and this is the Japanese top secret porsche from the Tokyo auto salon car show
Rays are lighter, stronger and stiffer then the vast majority of other wheels including BBS.
BBS is the candle to Rays light bulb and if candles were any good the light bulb would never have been invented.
Keep up the good work
Bloody nice! Although if it were my money, i'd just do the engine, lsd and fit some KW's. Standard wheels are nice enough and the 8 kg savings in the wheels wouldn't bother me.
However in the current market a 996 GT3 is cheaper than a Cayman S and I'd rather have one of those than a fully autofarm'd Cayman RS.
However in the current market a 996 GT3 is cheaper than a Cayman S and I'd rather have one of those than a fully autofarm'd Cayman RS.
anonymous said:
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However you seem to be missing the point of the car surely? Its an exercise in functionality rather than cosmetics, therefore how the wheels compliment the lines means nowt. As a functional tool the car delivers, the wheels are a matter of opinion.However, I lurve them!
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