Anyone ever tried Porsche acid green...

[ajee622]

For brake caliper colors??


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[Willënskraft]

No, but from what I've seen they're quite trippy .





Looks amazing though

[ajee622]

Yeah someone has them on a cayenne s where I work out at and they look like a cool color. My car is silver so I think it's something different than traditional red or black


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[slowrideBC]

In before bobkat notices this thread

[bobkatkat]

Nope.





not in Carbon Fiber



not on badges




not even in motion.

[das4]

Nope.





not in Carbon Fiber



not on badges




not even in motion.

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[ajee622]

Awesome look. Did you have a shop do the color??


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[bobkatkat]

Awesome look. Did you have a shop do the color??


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When I did mine the 918 concept car just came out so there was no paint code for the Acid green that is on the real 918 and the Cayenne Hybrids calipers. There have been many Porsche colors that use the name "Acid Green" but at the time none were that green. Working with the printouts of the 918 and the paint supplier we just mixed and tweaked until i was happy.

I think it is very close but hopefully there is a paint code now just in case I have to redo something.

[ajee622]

How much did they charge for it??


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[bobkatkat]

How much did they charge for it??


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For the paint? Standard high end automotive/industrial coating prices.

[lo-lyfe]

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Less play more fabrication, please ;-)

[james 408]

lol sweet vid.

excellent showcase of the diff issue too. You notice how the car puts too much power to the fronts preventing you from turning in again without first correcting the slide? like after you've pitched it, you're in the power, you stop countersteering and actually steer into the turn, but the car refuses to point in further (without e-brake), and instead the car straightens out? See the 5 second mark of the video -- you can see it at multiple points but that's the first time and it's pretty obvious. Drives me nuts. Anybody tried a fix? realizing it's tranny swap status most likely. Most of the high performance AWD sports cars don't have this issue, and i'm 99.9% sure it's the early gen of torsen center diff causing it.

[ngood1]

Great Video Bobkat

[ur0drivr]

lol sweet vid.

excellent showcase of the diff issue too. You notice how the car puts too much power to the fronts preventing you from turning in again without first correcting the slide? like after you've pitched it, you're in the power, you stop countersteering and actually steer into the turn, but the car refuses to point in further (without e-brake), and instead the car straightens out? See the 5 second mark of the video -- you can see it at multiple points but that's the first time and it's pretty obvious. Drives me nuts. Anybody tried a fix? realizing it's tranny swap status most likely. Most of the high performance AWD sports cars don't have this issue, and i'm 99.9% sure it's the early gen of torsen center diff causing it.

Can't hope for any traction the way the lake was on that day...So I wouldn't judge the diff issue by using this Vid.

And I've said it before Bob, love the video ;)

[bobkatkat]

lol sweet vid.

excellent showcase of the diff issue too. You notice how the car puts too much power to the fronts preventing you from turning in again without first correcting the slide? like after you've pitched it, you're in the power, you stop countersteering and actually steer into the turn, but the car refuses to point in further (without e-brake), and instead the car straightens out? See the 5 second mark of the video -- you can see it at multiple points but that's the first time and it's pretty obvious. Drives me nuts. Anybody tried a fix? realizing it's tranny swap status most likely. Most of the high performance AWD sports cars don't have this issue, and i'm 99.9% sure it's the early gen of torsen center diff causing it.

Ya I understand what you are trying to get out of this video but this would not be a good example. I was out there with a jeep grand Cherokee and a e30 btw. The jeep could get around the track but if it missed a corner it was gone sliding 100-150 yards. The e30 could not run the track at all, 100% understeer 100% of the time. There is no traction anywhere other that a slight bit more where the track gets chewed up by cars with studded tires. You can stay on line if you are not trying to hoon it for the camera like I was. The only way to get around an ice track like this is to tap the e-brake or even drag it a bit. I can tell the rear is trying harder than the front by the sound and the spray. Keep in mid you have to have some traction to have a difference in traction. I will post some video of my jeep with both front and rear diffs locked trying to get going after a spin. Like a baby dear on roller-skates.

You do bring up some good points and the glair ice may be a good testing ground to see just what is happening when. Could GPS a track then put some gopros on all the corners over lay accelerometer data.

[bobkatkat]

Quattro rules!! Jeep/ baby deer on roller-skates video

[chris@fifteen52]

More Porsche Acid Green

[james 408]

apologies for the thread-jack attempt. love the color, again would recommend choosing 1 highlight color for the whole car though.

ice is actually a perfect situation to test it. Ice, rain, or dry tarmac, the same effect occurs while drifting on all surfaces as the 2:1 or 4:1 ratios are not surpassed when all 4 are sliding. first 5 seconds of the jeep video, you're turned into the turn (opposite countersteering), the car continues to point. The audi won't do that, the circle will widen and the car will straighten (can usually get 1 full donut before it pulls straight again). This has been bugging me forever. not really a track issue most of the time, except when off throttle steps it out, then you countersteer too much/too early, and you try to steer the car back in. only way to prevent snap understeer in this situation is with an ebrake or to completely off-throttle and hope the wheels stop spinning in time. You can avoid this by just not Fing up the countersteer, but fact is, you should be able to adjust this dynamically throughout the corner.

I've been wanting to hoon my buddies b7 rs4 to compare the 40-60 diff with our 50-50 default, but he thinks hooning is crazy and is akin to trying to bed his daughter. I've tried both evos and stis, neither has the problem. but like subaru foresters and the like have the same issue. it seems to be the performance center diffs.

I've got tons of experience drifting the s4, you can manage around it by effectively overrotating the car before you try to drift it, and just not countersteering much and letting the power correct it. But it's not very dynamic and requires you to guess the right angle/throttle timing (much like trying to 4-wheel slide a FWD car). The e-brake of course works as long as you're not buried in abs (complaint #2, but lets leave abs out of this for the time being if we can).

quattros great, but there's a reason the r8 uses a much different AWD system than our cars. Audi has continually modified the differential system with every new model since the b5.

[bobkatkat]

Yes sorry about hijacking the thread.

One color is a must with these bright colors. Red calipers match the red badging. When I first did the Acid green it looked terrible with the red emblems. Exaggerated on a side view because I have the OEM DTM badges. I went matching acid green on everything an it looks way better.

Side note maybe a instructional thread on how to drift the B5??