My turn came up but I'm waiting to see if the M030 suspension with LSD might become available. I'm also hoping for the factory sports exhaust. Since this is more of a performance/handling car than Boxster - I hope they make these options available soon, and in the U.S.A. I'm not really interested in the PASM, if I want comfort I'll drive my 330i.
As an FYI you can get different springs and sway bars and still keep PASM, really the best of both worlds in that instance. No idea on LSD, but doubtful IMHO.
not sure .....maybe someone else can confrim, but as far as exhaust ..... it is for sound affects only, it adds nothing to performance or horsepower/torque. I believe you could purchase an aftermarket system for a lot less and get more for your buck.
I'm not certain I would want the sport exhaust in the car after listening to the 987S Boxster. The 987S sounded great and I suspect that the Cayman maybe louder due to resonance within the cabin. There were some early articles suggesting that Porsche engineers were concerned that the car was
too
loud. In fact the 'luggage partition' option was reportedly a sound barrier as well. In any case, the sport exhaust could always be added on (or changed to an aftermarket unit) if that was necessary. I think we all need to wait and drive the CaymanS before making any judgment about how extensively the suspension needs modification. The Cayman has a stiffer suspension and larger anti-roll barsthan the Boxster and we know the car is more rigid. From the photos the only conclusion I could draw was that it would look better lowered 20mm. Naturally a LSD would be desirable even if one didn't feel the need to track the car, but Porschedeliberately holds back certain features that they will offer later to add exclusivity/performance (and price) to a special package or edition. They've been doing that for decades.
Help me out. What is LSD?
From Wikipedia, better than any babble I could offer:
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 a car or
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 an LSD is found by considering the case of a standard 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 at twice its intended velocity - the
torque
transmitted will be zero and the vehicle will remain stationary. In normal everyday use on typical roads, such a situation can usually be assumed to have a vanishingly small probability, 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.
Edited by - DaveC on 09/10/2005 09:47:38 AM
I highly doubt that Porsche will offer the LSD. It becomes very hard to have the LSD work right with PSM. I had an LSD in my 99 996, but that was before PSM.I May be wrong, but I think only the 40 year limited Porsche had LSD.
Chad - The 997 with sports suspension also has an LSD with PSM (Euro only). I think they limit these to 25% locking which works better than the 60% locking of the GT cars (which cannot work well with PSM)...
