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0-60 isn't a real Porsche performance measurement you know. I guess that attraction is a result of 70% of CC members being on their first Porsche?
The Cayman S is my fourth Porsche and although I agree there is certainly more to the Cayman than 0-60 times, I see no harm in reporting this. Most car mags report this figure in their road tests and I think most people want to know this measuremnt of acceleration concerning their own performance cars. I bet 0-60 is one of the first things most auto enthusiasts look at when they open a car mag to read about a road test of some car of interest. Only thing is, cars are getting so fast, maybe we should start thinking of 0-100 mph as golden performance figure.
Tony, sorry I didn’t mean to imply harm it is just that the fixation by new owners on a piece of largely irrelevant information when there is so much more to enjoy needs a warning flag. If 0-60 is the most important thing in a person’s life they should look to Mustangs, Vipers, Vettes and other nice toys. Sure it is a measurement of something but not an improvement in what most of us are buying in Porsche performance. It is sort of like those posts that say people can now break their tires with the latest mod. How often does anyone in a Porsche do that? Now tell me how lap times are improved and I’ll be impressed.
Besides a few seconds of 0-60 is way too subject to variables like weather, pavement or track, driver, full moons or whatever to be useful.
Well, Porsche (and Penske) knew that they must build a car that was faster down the straights than anything else before it if they wanted to conquer the CanAm. Donohue realized that this was the most important of all the performance variables if you wanted to win in the fastest of all road racing events and he stated so many times. Acceleration is a very important aspect of performance.
Do me a favor. Make a 0-60 run every Monday for three months and report the results and let’s see how much difference there is. I found out that the variation can be enough to convince ones self of anything you wanted to believe. I didn't say acceleration wasn't important. I just don't think a 0-60 measurement is an accurate way to test a modification to what is essentially a road racer not a drag racer. Most race cars don't spend a lot of time going from a 0-60. Make sense?
Makes sense. But I am interested in 0-60 and any other range you want to pick. It's as good as any at measuring the power (not to mention excitement factor) of a car. That push in the back sure is a nice feeling. No one was/is better than Porsche at building cars with prodigious amounts of horsepower that are able to control that power and sustain it for long periods of time. I believe it was 1975 at the Paul Revere 250 when John Fitzpatrick was trailing some kind of prototype racer in his 935. Fitzpatrick trailed the car, which was in first place at the time, for several laps and he just could not seem to get around the car. Then, on the last lap, on the final stretch before the checkered flag, Fitzpatrick turned the boost knob up, and literally out dragged the other car to the finish line. Porsche fans, including me, screamed with excitment. I know that he turned the boost up because he said that is what he did on the final lap to win the race, during post race interview. Sometimes sheer acceleration will win even a rather long road race for you. Porsche just does it all better than everyone else.
0-60 isn't a real Porsche performance measurement you know. I guess that attraction is a result of 70% of CC members being on their first Porsche?
That's weird. It is listed in the manual. 0-60 mph and 0 -100kmph.
They list it in the 997TT manual, also.
And I will be damned...in the GT3 RS manual, too.
Personally, I am a fan of head to head rolling starts like the guy from M5board.com does in Sweden. Power and acceleration can be fun and interesting. Even to Porsche owners.
The coorelation of mods to acceleration expressed as a graph would provide a fuzzy real world dyno, for those of us that don't wish to visit a shop to get the numerical data.
I do agree with Santa Fe that a zero-to-sixty time is only a small measure of how works a Porsche. But blastitude coming out of a corner is part of winning road races. Acceleration is improved by an LSD too, in that situation. Yet neither one of those will show up in a straight-line performance collection.
LSD - Limited Slip Differential
A limited slip differential (LSD) is a modified or derived type of differential gear arrangement that allows for some difference in rotational velocity of the output shafts, but does not allow the difference in speed to increase beyond a preset amount. In an automobile, such limited slip differentials are sometimes used in place of a standard differential, where they convey certain dynamic advantages, at the expense of greater complexity.
The main advantage of a limited slip differential is found by considering the case of a standard (or "open") differential where one wheel has no contact with the ground at all. In such a case, the contacting wheel will remain stationary, and the non-contacting wheel will rotate freely– the torque transmitted will be equal at both wheels, but will not exceed the threshold of torque needed to move the vehicle, thus the vehicle will remain stationary. In everyday use on typical roads, such a situation is very unlikely, and so a normal differential suffices. For more demanding use however, such as driving off-road, or for high performance vehicles, such a state of affairs is undesirable, and the LSD can be employed to deal with it. By limiting the velocity difference between a pair of driven wheels, useful torque can be transmitted as long as there is some friction available on at least one of the wheels.
To see the installation of a LSD style unit Click Here -> Article Forthcoming Stay Tuned
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Only thing is, cars are getting so fast, maybe we should start thinking of 0-100 mph as golden performance figure.
