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Originally Posted by DarkSunrise
- If I was building a dedicated track car, I'd keep modding my FR-S. Cheaper to maintain, easier to fix, and more fun to wrench on. Also don't feel as bad abusing it.
- But if I wanted to spend $40k+ on a street car that could be tracked, I'd go with a Porsche. There is a sense of refinement about them that's hard to beat.
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add in your personal tastes and this is pretty much the end of the thread
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Originally Posted by bfrank1972
Unless you're blowing motors right and left, trust me it is. They go through tires faster, tires will likely be more expensive, brakes are a lot more expensive, heck it takes 9 quarts of oil for an oil change  |
A properly setup turbo Toyobaru will be of similar tire size to the cayman, stepping up to 18" wheels you'd only save about $200 a set on Pilot Super Sports with the Toyobaru (245 vs 235/265 widths), quality rubber generally degrades due to heat cycling so you'll get an equivalent amount of track time out of both cars unless you can't manage your equipment, slap a BBK on both and that's a wash as well, the Toyobaru takes 5 qts. of oil stock, toss in an oil cooler to bump that up to six or seven and with a turbo you should be changing oil more frequently than a naturally aspirated Porsche (which is about 10k miles per their recommended intervals).
http://www.porsche.com/usa/accessori...anceintervals/
And you won't have a warranty to fall back on. Sorry but for maintenance costs I'd give the win to the lightly track prepped Porsche over a Toyobaru with >$10k of go faster stuff.