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Old 06-13-2009, 10:25 PM
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Thinking about selling the Cover Car

Hey fellas,

Depending on a MD's diagnosis of my right shoulder, I may sell my baby. 6 months after surgery and I still am in pain shifting. If it doesn't bring enough though, I'll just keep it and give it to my son for his 16th birthday. He's 8 months old, and I'm serious.

Extremely well setup and heavily modified by Synergy Racing, 2006 997S with just about every mod available that's worth a hoot. 24k miles. Black car in the middle. Beat a modded turbo, a modded GT3, and a modded Cayman S.

 
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I like the give it to your son idea.
 
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Old 06-14-2009, 12:34 PM
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Can you post some more pics? and what ur looking to get for the car.

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Old 06-14-2009, 06:34 PM
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So you re-introduced yourself a few days ago so that you could sell your car?
 
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Old 06-15-2009, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by thedude
Can you post some more pics? and what ur looking to get for the car.

Thanks.
Sorry guys. I really hadn't thought about the price on the car. Probably between $80k and $90k.

Right now, it has a new (as in less than 100 miles, straight from Porsche) 3.8L in it. Car has 24k miles on it. I will add up the receipts, but as the car sits, a solid estimate invested into it is $175k-200k, INCLUDING the price of the car. Sticker was $94,200.

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2006 Carrera S. 24k miles. 6 speed. Full leather. 2 tone leather (dark and light gray).
Had a slow slide into a tire wall in which I had to replace the driver fender. To be safe, I we replaced all the suspension stuff because I was going to anyway. I had a catalytic converter break up and the engine sucked in part of the catalyst, so I replaced the engine instead of rebuilding it. The expensive, but right way to do it, in my opinion.

Car was built originally by Synergy Racing. Since then, I have moved and Racer's Edge/European Auto Garage (one of the most impressive shops I've seen in the east coast) has had it in their care. They all can attest for everything done to the car... as does the Excellence article. Since that article, I have done another article for the same mag in which I tested the Panamera. I say this though, because I didn't know anyone at the magazine at the time of the 997S article. There was no favoritism in the outcome. We became buddies through and after that article. Anyway, the only differences from the article to now is that it has a new engine, a Softronic Flash, a new (but same) GMG World Challenge Center Exit exhaust, no supercharger this time, took the roll bar out and sold it, took the Cobra Seats out (as well as the OMP 6 point harnesses) but have them all, including hardware. Have the stock seats and belts in it now just because I knew I'd be recovering from surgery, as well as breaking in the new engine. I didn't care for the last roll bar, so I planned on installing a DASSport one this go around. Oh, I took off the Brembos on the front. They would hit the inside of my wheels coming out of high speeds somehow. They also got too heated. I attest that the stock brakes are better when used with great pads, fluid, and stainless lines.

I'll start with the suspension because it's why the car is so great. However, the result is greater than the sum of the parts, because of the Synergy geniuses.

Suspension/Brakes:
Moton Clubsport Coilovers with very trick mounting for remotes in the front
GT3 Cup adjustable control arms
GMG adjustable sway bars
GMG adjustable dog bones
Monoball suspension mounts (not on the control arms)
Performance Friction Pads
Stainless brake lines
Castrol SRF
custom 19" HRE C23 wheels in matte black with red pinstripe
custom alloy/sandblasted center caps as a gift from HRE
Toyo R888 tires (315 rear, 265 front). Good shape.

Engine/Drivetrain mods:
Sachs Racing Clutch
Sachs lightweight flywheel
Quaife TBD Limited Slip Diff
Softronic Flash
IPD Intake Plenum
GMG World Challenge, thermal coated, exhaust and headers (beautiful)
Synergy Racing engine lowering kit
DASSport engine jack plate (jack up rear of car easily)
OEM short shifter

Exterior:
GMG GT3RS carbon wing
OEM GT3 nose
GMG carbon nose vent
EvoMS carbon mirrors
tinted windows
GMG carbon kevlar GT3 cup rear bumper
Synergy Racing rear chromolly engine cage
Clear Corners

Interior:
Cobra Suzuka Technology Carbon/Alcantara racing seats
OMP 6 point harnesses
Stock Carrera S seats and belts currently in
OEM Carbon center console
OEM Carbon shift knob

Electronics:
Traqmate GPS Lap Analyzation System
ChaseCam video processor and hard drive
2 ChaseCam Bullet Cams
Pioneer AVIC-N1 head unit (iPod video and audio, Sirius, DVD, Nav, etc)
2 JL Audio 8" subs in slick, interior-matching box behind rear seatbacks
Focal Utopia 6.5" component speakers in doors
JL Audio 250/4 amp
JL Audio 250/2 amp, both mounted in nose
K40 Spectra Integrated Radar/Laser Detector/Diffuser system

Windshield has some chips. Had chips in hood just fixed. Looks new. Car is show quality.

If interested, I can show receipts for all this stuff. Also, let me know of any specific pics you might want. I'm still thinking this through, but I figured that I should go ahead and get the word out just in case.

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Old 06-15-2009, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by JC919
So you re-introduced yourself a few days ago so that you could sell your car?
Kinda. Since I was on here all the time and then stopped, I have had two shoulder surgeries, merged my company, had a son, and am moving. I haven't been able to drive the car, so for me, posting brought more of a negative feeling. I just stuck my head in the sand, per se. The car has been in Knoxville, TN for about 5 months and I live in NC. I went to TN and drove it around over the weekend (left hand shifting and all) and got a feeling like I wasn't doing the car justice. So I came on here to put out a feeler. I might go to a PDK car, though I really, really don't want to. I don't need the money from selling the car. I just need something to DRIVE... NOW.
 
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Pics taken on June 13th at Cars & Coffee - European Auto Garage - Knoxville, TN
MiniD and DHinkle's shop. They drove it in. MiniD took the pics. I wasn't even there! Darnit!





 
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Originally Posted by Blakt Out
Kinda. Since I was on here all the time and then stopped, I have had two shoulder surgeries, merged my company, had a son, and am moving. I haven't been able to drive the car, so for me, posting brought more of a negative feeling. I just stuck my head in the sand, per se. The car has been in Knoxville, TN for about 5 months and I live in NC. I went to TN and drove it around over the weekend (left hand shifting and all) and got a feeling like I wasn't doing the car justice. So I came on here to put out a feeler. I might go to a PDK car, though I really, really don't want to. I don't need the money from selling the car. I just need something to DRIVE... NOW.
Just messing with ya. Good luck with the sale, it would be hard for me to sell such a car that I put so much time and money into.
 
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Old 06-15-2009, 05:29 PM
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Dude, gorgeous car! What are the specs on this beast? HP, weight, etc.?

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