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I was in a 718 GT4 and personally the ride quality for the car beats out any stock car from BMW. In fact, for me it feels close to how my KW DDC feels on my M3 currently on Sport setting. For me, it isn't jarring or uncomfortable. Most online complain about the 992 ride because they are used to harsher suspension and ride. I don't personally think there is a wrong answer to what Sedan is wondering about but it would depend on how much he is willing to put into the car price wise and if he is going to keep the car long term. I am the type that, if I don't tend to change my suspension very often, then I avoid throwing too much... options into it. That's where I got with BMW. I like having the option to change of course but I am also lazy and just don't wana. If BMW did their suspension setup correctly, I wouldn't have to constantly play with it all the damn time. I have left our Macan GTS on Sport suspension setting on the PASM and stopped touching it. Occasionally dropping it to drive like a sedan.
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So long as the car has PASM or SPASM you should be fine mainly because, compared to the stock steel shocks, PASM/SPASM is better in every way. Now... if you are doing it for the light drop than... maybe? I personally avoid doing any major modding for Porsche cars just because I don't like messing with cars like this. They aren't Civics that require things.
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But to each his own - hopefully you can find a car to drive between now and then.
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As for the look, It's definitely for me. I like the look of a lowered car……despite only being able to appreciate it when I'm not driving it. Then again, your point could be made for anything exterior, be it paint or wheels or….. ….and are we modding/optioning cars with special paints or wheels for others or ourselves?!?! Maybe it's a mixture of both. |
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my point... Your choice of wheel on the S makes no difference in terms of how the car handles/feels/rides, nor does the color of the car. But if the S-PASM option hurts the ride quality significantly and you aren't tracking it, and you are only doing it for the "look" - the look you can't see while driving, where you will "feel" the ride quality, each and every time you drive the car, then... you are doing it for the wrong reasons. But like I said, until you drive a car with it, you will never know.
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Sedan_Clan if it helps, a 10mm drop is basically 1 cm and that is very little in the grand scheme of things if you think about it from a visual standpoint. 20mm is more noticeable at 2 cm but 1 cm drop isn't.
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With the 992 looking wider and bigger the SPASM drop at 10mm isn't as big and not as noticeable. Edit: I'll put out that there is actually a reason for this. The 991.2 didn't come with PASM as standard, so when you option for it, it will drop it 20mm/2cm. This isn't the case for the 992 as the 992 comes with PASM already equipped. What the option is, is SPASM which only drops it 10mm/1cm.
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I don't have any seat time with a 992, but on my 991.2 C4GTS, the SPASM in stiff settings can feel a bit "jiggly" on our rough roads here in Vancouver. Had the same thing with my 718 GTS. I basically kept that car in comfort settings 98% of the time, and it's what I've been doing in the 500km I've put on the 991.2 since I picked it up.
I have a track day on Thursday, so I'll flip the sport mode and see if the difference is really noticeable... that being said, I do like the extra drop. As others have said, I don't plan on really tinkering suspension wise with the car so having it from the factory (with warranty) offers some peace of mind.
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Regardless, I would still get SPASM especially since Sedan said he would likely want to lower the car if he got PASM. Perhaps the 10mm reduced height would be enough for him (personally i would leave it) and if not the shocks are likely more suited to lowering springs anyway. |
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FWIW, I have settled on leaving SPASM on my car. I'm just going to roll with it. I secured financing with my department credit union today, so I'll be foregoing establishing that relationship with Porsche Financial Services this time around. It just made more sense to stay with my credit union since my Ducati is financed through them and everything comes out of my paycheck prior to getting paid. It makes it become one of those, "out of sight, out of mind" type of scenarios. Twice a year (…summer and Christmas time) they offer this skip-a-payment option if you just want to use the money for something else. They just adjust your payoff date a month. That may come in handy should I wanna mod. <eeps> |
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The article also compares the 992 PASM to the 991.2 and shows how much of a leap was made. Porsche sure do their engineering homework and openly share it with owners/fans for them to geek out. I wish BMW would do the same. EDIT: Found it :
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I was very impressed with the handling. The turn in is fantastic when you keep some weight on that front axle. And a slight lift will immediately tuck the nose in, it is super responsive to throttle steer. I did not push it that hard since it was still under "break-in", but exit speeds are nuts, despite short shifting at 5k and being on street tires, my corner exit speeds were faster than on my M4cs on NT01. At the pace I was driving, I could not even tell it was AWD, might be different at 10/10th.
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edit: Succinct and informative. Excellent read. That answers my question(s). I guess the Sport PASM shocks - assuming what applies to the TTS SPASM also applies to the C2S SPASM - is quite different indeed. |
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