Yes, at the time I was racing my 1994 RX7 R2 with SCCA Eastern Motor Racing Association. At the time I had my hands full with that, and frankly felt the Mazda was a better track car.
How times have changed, now the Mazdas are selling for more than I paid for a brand new car, and the Porsche is...
Indeed, especially at the price of MSRP.
IMO it’s a 40k car at best. Anyone willingly paying an ADM for one of these is completely out of their mind.
Took one for a test drive, I like it a lot. Some torque steer when it was trying to hook in 1st/2nd, but overall very manageable. Here’s a pic with the Lexus in the background. I wanted to get a side by side feel for the size difference. Overall length, wheelbase, and overhang all a bit larger...
I have never brought any of my new cars back to a dealership for “free” anything. Why take the chance they’ll screw something up for the price of an oil change?
A bigger intercooler will do practically nothing for a stock engine, unless of course you’re tracking it and consistently into boost and the resulting heat soak drives your IAT up (or stuck in city traffic, any heat soak condition). When that happens, the ECU will retard timing to save the...
Any chance you did a before and after IAT? Any
further mods like a boost controller & tune? The reason I asked is I was wondering if a mod like this would help much with a stock engine. The factory intercooler seems to be a decent size.
Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else here, I...