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Had mine over a week now and love it to pieces. I have it on a limited mileage which I've done 15% of. Lots of smiles over the week though But I do have a few questions. The brakes stop it well enough but the feel is a bit, wooden? Can anything be done here to improve the brake pedal feel? After hearing people go on about boost gauges and wondering where mine was, I finally found it via the computer. It makes 0.7 BAR. I presume this is about right? What is the best kind of geo to put on it? I am not a fan of understeer and want it gone but I don't want to be battling with it on country roads so track settings are out. Can you do anything to lower the front a bit? Make it a bit more pointy? Finally, how do you stop looking for excuses to go out in it?

Phillmac75 said: Had mine over a week now and love it to pieces. I have it on a limited mileage which I've done 15% of. Lots of smiles over the week though But I do have a few questions. The brakes stop it well enough but the feel is a bit, wooden? Can anything be done here to improve the brake pedal feel? After hearing people go on about boost gauges and wondering where mine was, I finally found it via the computer. It makes 0.7 BAR. I presume this is about right? What is the best kind of geo to put on it? I am not a fan of understeer and want it gone but I don't want to be battling with it on country roads so track settings are out. Can you do anything to lower the front a bit? Make it a bit more pointy? Finally, how do you stop looking for excuses to go out in it? Welcome to the club! For a standard unmapped car 0.7 boost is about right. Before I had mine mapped I occasionally hit 0.8. Geo - someone with more expertise on this subject will no doubt be along with advice, or search threads on Center Gravity. With regard to you last question - You can't

The brakes do feel a bit wooden but you get use to it. Would recommend putting some better brake pads on (PAGID Racing Brake Pads)which improves the braking and feel a lot.

Phillmac75 said: The brakes stop it well enough but the feel is a bit, wooden? Can anything be done here to improve the brake pedal feel? This was my biggest complaint in week one too; it goes away by week two and then you can stop on a sixpence!

I think the thing with the brakes is that most modern cars have to much servo assistance and therefore feel very sharp. Jump into a Porsche and the extra feel can also feel wooden. As has been already said you get use to it and the longer you live with these the more they just feel right. Enjoy the new toy D

Both my 6t's were boosting too about 0,8bar Brakes are wooden, but you get used to them and they work very well, they feel better when warmed up though and as said earlier some pagids will improve matters. Suspension's a different ball game depends on budget obviously. Get some quality lowered springs and get a 4 wheel geo if on a budget, otherwise go full hock with coil overs etc

Op get your car remapped you will wonder why didn't earlier, although you have to be even earlier on the brakes when done!. They are not the most feelsome setup and do probably lack that initial servo reassurance.

Not sure I agree with your assessment the brakes feel wooden. Pretty good brake feel in my Turbo. Stock pads and rotors. And with 118K miles. Have you have the brake fluid flushed/bled? For an alignment I ask the tech to apply the factory settings. No tweaks or boutique stuff. The car feels superb on the road, from back roads to freeways, and tire life is very good. 20K or more miles service life from the rears and double that from the fronts. The front end -- and its expensive air dam -- are already low enough. And lower and you'd be looking for a quick lift feature. Oh, boost. Nominal boost level is 0.7 bar. However, under some conditions the boost can reach 0.8 bar even 0.9 bar based on my experience with my 03. The explanation is the DME attempts to satisfy torque demanded by the driver as signaled by the e-Gas and if is takes just 0.6 bar boost that's all you're going to see. However, if it takes 0.7 bar, well, you see that. And under some conditions -- my experience was at higher elevations (8K feet or more above sea level) -- 0.8 bar even 0.9 bar boost was obtained and maintained long enough that it was not a "glitch". As for how to stop finding excuses to take the car out.. why? I didn't buy my Turbo to sit in the driveway. I use it quite often, alternating between the Turbo and my Boxster. Edited by Rockster on Tuesday 11th March 01:33

Rockster said: For an alignment I ask the tech to apply the factory settings. No tweaks or boutique stuff. The car feels superb on the road, from back roads to freeways, and tire life is very good. 20K or more miles service life from the rears and double that from the fronts. Edited by Rockster on Tuesday 11th March 01:33 Blimey Rockster, how do you manage that? Is it because you're in the US and the roads there are much better than ours? On standard set up with N2 Conti sports and my last rears lasted approx 10k and I'm just about to replace my fronts after 15k! I thought that was pretty much the norm?

Yeah brakes do feel woodern... Suppose its the way they are.. But do stop pretty quick if you watch the mph go down from 120+ ... Would not worry about it.. you will get used to them.

I also found brakes wooden so I bought some gt3 6 pots and a 350mm kit for the back. It has now got the brakes Porsche should have fitted from the start. Not wooden anymore and I have loads more confidence in it. Also fitted a full set of performance friction 06 pads but they squeal like steptoes wheel barrow. Can't have it all I suppose.