Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Saurdaukar on September 29, 2009, 12:09:17 PM
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Youve had it for a few weeks - whats the verdict? :aok
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Mazz I'd be more interested to here"his" update after he puts say 30k miles on it!
Or better yet after his first service interval is up and it needs some shop time... :lol
:salute
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Must.... resist... urge...
ehhhh...ahhh...
OH ITS NO USE!!! IMSRMSIMSRMSIMSRMSIMSRMS!!!!!!!AHHHH!!!!11eleven :x
(Still the right choice) ;)
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So I was using the search button looking for an old post of mine and found this - you my friend deserve an answer!
In short, the 997s is the best thing I have ever bought in my life. I've had it for 3-4 months now and put nearly 12,000 miles on it... it's probably why I never saw this post! I would get off work at night and just take drives for 2 or 3 hours because it's just so much damn fun!
I'm not sure if you're familiar with Orange County, California, but there is a road called the Ortega Highway that runs between San Juan and Lake Elisinore. It's basically a windy road that goes goes through a small mountain range. Going the posted speed limits it takes about 45 minutes to go over. However, late night in a Porsche with no traffic, it takes me between 16 and 17 minutes! There are posted turns with 25mph and 35 mph limits that you can take going 60mph to 70mph - it's absolutely unbelievable.
There are a few parts on the highway that allow you to pass, and it's just so much fun to throttle it and go around the slower traffic. On other portions of the road, there are turnouts that slower traffic is supposed to use to allow faster traffic by. Most people pull into them and let you by. Every once in awhile, there will be someone that thinks they are going fast and won't use the turnouts. It's always fun to blow past them once passing is allowed.
On one of my night drives there was a car behind me that I couldn't discern by the headlights, but it was clearly doing it's best to keep up with me. I'd pull ahead, then when I'd reach a slower car it would catch up. When the slower car used a turnout, we'd commence speeding again. At the end of the road, we got to the top of the hill and the car behind me pulls into the second lane on my left. I will never forget this, but it was this young kid, maybe 8 - 10 years old in the passenger seat with the BIGGEST smile on his face. His dad was in an S55 AMG. I gave the kid a thumbs up and he waved. Is was totally awesome.
I think I've rambled enough! The car is extremely confidence inspiring, It wants you to go faster all of time. The sound is intoxicating. It sticks to the road so well, it's remarkable. I've let a few friends and family drive it, and it's almost more fun to see them enjoying it! It's difficult to understand just how fun these machines are until you drive one. If you're ever in the area, shoot me a message and I'll take you for a spin!
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It's difficult to understand just how fun these machines are until you drive one. If you're ever in the area, shoot me a message and I'll take you for a spin!
No need. Ive got one of my own sans a radiator. :aok
Glad to hear you're enjoying it. The first sentence quoted pretty much sums it up.
Dont lift. :cool:
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So I was using the search button looking for an old post of mine and found this - you my friend deserve an answer!
In short, the 997s is the best thing I have ever bought in my life. I've had it for 3-4 months now and put nearly 12,000 miles on it... it's probably why I never saw this post! I would get off work at night and just take drives for 2 or 3 hours because it's just so much damn fun!
I'm not sure if you're familiar with Orange County, California, but there is a road called the Ortega Highway that runs between San Juan and Lake Elisinore. It's basically a windy road that goes goes through a small mountain range. Going the posted speed limits it takes about 45 minutes to go over. However, late night in a Porsche with no traffic, it takes me between 16 and 17 minutes! There are posted turns with 25mph and 35 mph limits that you can take going 60mph to 70mph - it's absolutely unbelievable.
There are a few parts on the highway that allow you to pass, and it's just so much fun to throttle it and go around the slower traffic. On other portions of the road, there are turnouts that slower traffic is supposed to use to allow faster traffic by. Most people pull into them and let you by. Every once in awhile, there will be someone that thinks they are going fast and won't use the turnouts. It's always fun to blow past them once passing is allowed.
On one of my night drives there was a car behind me that I couldn't discern by the headlights, but it was clearly doing it's best to keep up with me. I'd pull ahead, then when I'd reach a slower car it would catch up. When the slower car used a turnout, we'd commence speeding again. At the end of the road, we got to the top of the hill and the car behind me pulls into the second lane on my left. I will never forget this, but it was this young kid, maybe 8 - 10 years old in the passenger seat with the BIGGEST smile on his face. His dad was in an S55 AMG. I gave the kid a thumbs up and he waved. Is was totally awesome.
I think I've rambled enough! The car is extremely confidence inspiring, It wants you to go faster all of time. The sound is intoxicating. It sticks to the road so well, it's remarkable. I've let a few friends and family drive it, and it's almost more fun to see them enjoying it! It's difficult to understand just how fun these machines are until you drive one. If you're ever in the area, shoot me a message and I'll take you for a spin!
so.....what you're sayin, is that a ginormous 4 door sedan gave ya a run for the money? :devil :aok
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997 = fairly new 911 ..with the 'S' havin a few nice bits added.
Nice car ..amazin how far Volkswagon has come -evil grin-
-GE aka Frank (we have a Porsche club join us on our cruises now an then . . fun to play :)
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997 = fairly new 911 ..with the 'S' havin a few nice bits added.
Nice car ..amazin how far Volkswagon has come -evil grin-
-GE aka Frank (we have a Porsche club join us on our cruises now an then . . fun to play :)
aawwwwww
that's so nice of you guys!!!!!
you let the kids in to play with the big boys now and then? :devil
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The last run I was on we had about 12 or so Porsche's join us in some way outback very cool twisties and windy roads in Northern Arizona.. was a great day, low 70's, no clouds, nice two lane blacktop out in the middle of nowhere for about 30 miles. I was comfortable cruisin the bends at 120 or so and lettin it wind out on the straits toppin over 150 in a few places, with the sharp ones down at 60-70 (placarded for 30-35) ..no muss, no fuss, no pushin, slidin, on rails all the way, even the wife had no complaints as we were well within the 'envelope' ..probably 70 percent of what our Z-51 had to give with them radial T/A's on, the bullets were just singin out back ..
..Porsche's were about a mile behind us at the end of the run.. and we were several miles behind the Z06-turbo bunch.. they just blew by us at the beginning of the run and we never saw 'em again till we got to Meteor Crater :) One of our Z06 guys had his right front tire give a low pressure warning, apparantly the bead seperated a bit and let some air out near 200mph he says, improper installation nicked the bead it was found later, but .. he said the light came on, he slowed down, checked pressure, was holdin at 15, they aired it up at the next town and kept it under 180 the rest of the way.
A beautiful day :)
-GE