porsche expert wanted!! is it possible to increase teh porsche maxx speed?

Question

yeap i asked questions about a porshce boxster several months ago and im getting one for my 16 birthday in a couple months. i can only afford to get the basic model not the S. first questin is what diffrences are tehre in the S and regular, can u explain what the terms mean im not good with single words you have to explain what they mean. and my main question, i want my porshce to go real fast kinda like a corvette, what can i do to make my porsche go faster? someone said to install twin turbo, what is that what does it do how fast does it make my car go? what otehr new technology are there to make a porsche increase horspower and go faster to compete with my friends infiniti and corvette? also has anyone looked into the porsche adrenalizer? what do you think of it? do you think it is a nice purchase i think it looks nice and makes the car look more masculine? do you think its worth it? alot of questiion but please help me answer it i want all the details before i pusrchase it. thnx..

Answer 1

First off, I'm sorry to tell you your boxter will need a LOT of work to keep up with a corvette in a straight line. The good news is it is capable of trashing the vette in the corners right out of the box. Notice I said capable. Just because the car is, doesn't mean YOU are. You have no where near enough experiance to be thinking about this. The boxter is a fabulous car, and you and your friends should go to autocrosses and track days to get familiar with your cars, and practice the skills needed to drive them well. The SCCA or NASA or any local car club should be able to tell you how to get involved. Now that the safety warning is out of the way, I'll tackle your questions in order. Basicly the S model has slightly better engine output, and a slightly better suspension setup. That means it handles and accelerates a little better than the base model. The top speed is no different, and that doesn't matter, because no one should even be able to get to the top speed of that car on a track, autocross, or public road. You will never need it. So let's concentrate on acceleration, which is what you need to keep up with a vette. The turbo, full name turbocharger, is a device which connects to the exhaust end of the engine. What it does is this: the hot gas coming from the engine drives a small fan in the turbo called a turbine. This turbine takes air coming from you air intake, and speeds it up. This forces more air into the engine at one time. More air means more oxygen to burn the fuel with, which causes a more effecient and faster burn. For now, lets just say that this is better, and leave it at that (it can get very complicted, and math is involved, so if you want to know, look it up or ask another question). Anyways, a better burn means more power, and more power means more acceleration. A turbo does not affect your top speed, it just helps you get there. A twin turbo is obviously two of them. The reason is as follows: turbos have something called lag. Because a turbo needs exhaust gas to spin the turbine (this is called spooling), when the engine is at low revs, the turbo is not forcing much air into the engine (its actually getting in the way). This makes the engine work harder to make power untill the revs get high enough to make the tubine start to spin quickly. This makes the car feel sluggish and slow from a standstill, because you are not generating power. Twin turbos try to eleminate lag in one of two ways. The first is tandem turbocharging. A smaller turbo takes less exhaust gas to spool up than a large turbo. This type of turbo takes advantage of that by splitting the work load across two turbos at once (one turbo for each half of the engine), thus decreaseing lag. The other type is called sequential turbocharging. Using the knowledge that a small turbo spools faster, they use one small turbo to force air into a bigger turbo, making the big turbo spool faster. This also reduces lag. However, this method is more complicated, and usually less effective. On to your next question: there is a lot of new tech that can help you boxter, you just have to look for it (most of it is online anyway). I've never even HEARD of an adrenalizer. However, most exterior modifications will only slow the car down. Porsche did a lot of wind tunnel testing to make the car this good. Most aftermarket tuners don't have that kind of money, so its just their best guess. If you like the look of it though, go to town. Good luck, have fun, and drive safe.

Answer 2

You have a lot of questions here, so first, just what you are asking:

The Boxster S has a number of upgrades over the base Boxster. While there are some trim upgrades involved, this are mostly performance oriented items (larger engine with more power, larger brakes, upgraded suspension, upsized wheels). Ultimately, if you want this added performance, it is MUCH less expensive to buy a Boxster S outright than to add these items later to a standard Boxster (it will cost you 4-5 times as much and will still not quite be 100% of the S).

If you want a car to go "fast like a Corvette," you might want to get a Corvette. The Boxster is an amazingly balanced car and a great car to drive. It is not designed as a car to be fast in a straight line (though Corvette's do have other strengths as well). You'd be better served in the long run learning how to drive a car near it's limit as you'll get more performance from any car you drive by that route. This is also a more economical approach. Yes, you can install a twin turbo, but since you cannot afford a Boxster S in the first place, just this, let alone doing such an upgrade correctly (upgrading the brakes so you can stop the car with all that extra power, etc) is well beyond your budget (not to mention, upgrades will that will increase maintainance costs and decrease engine longevity).

There are many ways to make a car go faster, but I'll go back to the last point. Nothing will make your car go faster than your learning to drive it. I regularly instruct at Porsche Club track events, and the people turning the fastest laps are seldomly the ones in the fastest cars. But if you simply want to go faster, the first place to look are at the tires. Better traction means better acceleration (as well as better braking and higher cornering speeds). Suspension upgrades would be the next best bang for the buck, but won't help you much in driving in a straight line (again, not really the strength of any Porsche). If you want to go just for more engine power, check into some after market exhausts. Combined with some computer remapping you may find another 5+hp... though you'll likely spend close to what you would've just to get the S in the first place by the time you finish going down that path. Removing options will also get you more gains in performance (lighter is faster). If you want to spend premium dollars, get a good lightwieght forged wheel set... while saving 2-4 pounds a wheel might not seem like much, remember that wheels are unsprung rotating mass. Small amounts here can mean decent performance gains.

As for the adrenalizer... after all of the performance talk and pleads of keeping things cheap, $700 for see through engine cover? If you want it, it's probably great. It will decrease the resale value of your car though. If you really want the car to look more masculine, just don't wear a dress when driving it. That will do more than a plexiglass insert over the engine.

The Boxster is a great car, and the truth is, it's probably more car than an unskilled and unexperienced driver can safely handle. The fact that you are concerned about competing with you friend's cars simply adds to this, and makes me think that this car is likely to wind up totaled - and hopefully when that happens it will just be a learning experience and no one will be hurt. The Boxster is a beautifully balanced car, and certainly more forgiving than older Porsches... but the same things that make it a great handling car will make it less forgiving when an less skilled and experienced driver does something stupid.

If you get the Boxster, do take the time to learn how to drive it (check for local chapters of PCA, they will have a variety of events with chances to really drive the car and get instruction in just how to do that). This will help you more than anything else on the performance front, and will also be your best bet to avoid something bad happening to you and the car.

Answer 3

well, if you cant afford an S, you shouldnt get a porsche. Maitenance is very very expensive, and tuning them is even more. If you want to be serious about a build up, 9ff would be the people to call. Unfortunately, if a boxster is expensive, then dont expect to get much from them.

and boxsters are plenty fast. The driver makes all the difference. I know people in boxsters that could crush corvettes, but at the same time, i know people that could crush boxsters in camrys on a racetrack.

If you want speed for dollars, go buy a WRX STi or Lancer EVO. If you just want to go fast in a straight line, get a Camaro/trans am.

Answer 4

if you are planning to twin turbo a porsche boxster you're gonna need to upgrade your frame stability and possibly get a different spoiler because your car is going to almost literally fly down the road. There's no doubt that you'll keep up with your friends corvette with a stock boxster, but the turbo will give you the acceleration to take him off the line and down the road. You better hope that you're a good driver though because once you open that car up you're gonna be sucked back so deep into your seat that your neck, back, arms, and everything else is gonna hurt.

Answer 5

Dude if you need to ask, AND you're only 15.... you belong nowhere near a Porsche. But for the answer, ask RUF - the Porsche tuning experts.

Answer 6

lol funny joke

Answer 7

get a new engine