Teamspeed.com - Inside TPC Racing's First Porsche Boxster Spyder Turbo Build by KM Mag

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TPC racing's 2010 Porsche Boxster Spyder

June 3 2010
Over the coming weeks, Kilometer Magazine will be following along with a project already underway inside a non-descript shop in Maryland. It’s one that can’t be done soon enough, as the results should be totally spectacular. Someone has taken delivery the amazing new Porsche Boxster Spyder and promises to make it a world-class supercar on a budget.

You’ve perhaps already read about the work TPC Racing does with other current Porsche models, including turbo kits for the 997 and the Cayman. Owner/operator Mike Levitas got his start in the late 1980s working on and racing cars in the IMSA Supercar Series, where legendary turbo cars like the Nissan 300ZX, Mazda RX7, and Lotus Esprit gave him plenty of experience with the witchcraft of forced induction. By 2000, Levitas and TPC moved to Porsches and the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series, where the company claimed a 1-2-3-4 sweep of the driver’s championship. The company’s #36 car never left the podium in the 2000 season. In 2006, TPC won its class at the 24 Hours of Daytona.

For a guy with this kind of history, you might not expect Mike Levitas to get excited about much anymore. You’d be wrong, and as a result we can’t even quote his first sentence about the stock Boxster Spyder. It isn’t fit for some audiences. But he did go on to tell us that he thinks Porsche is “definitely understating the development time of the car,” notably its more substantial tub and higher rigidity. “It makes a 997 seem weak. This is a real car, no flex. I don’t know how they did it.” These are incredibly strong words coming from a guy like Mike, but ones we definitely support based on our limited time in the car. He also noted the drastic reduction in top-down wind noise versus a normal Boxster, and went on to call the car a “huge bargain.”

A few minutes into our conversation with Mike, we’re starting to wonder whether he thinks the near-perfect Spyder is even worth tuning. “This hasn’t changed our plans, but reinforced them. For $64,000 you can buy this car. We’ll add $5000-6000 in suspension, plus $10,00.

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Kilometer Magazine: KM Exclusive: Inside TPC Racing's First Porsche Boxster Spyder Turbo Build

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