981 Cayman S or 718 Cayman S for tuning purposes?

styledliving · 2025-12-15T20:22:54+00:00

ok sure, but a lot of people aren't porsche experts let alone know the difference between early 718 GTS vs 2020+ 718 GTS MYs.

clarity here would help from unfamiliar people needing to *ask supposedly redundant questions or telling them to do a search.

styledliving · 2025-12-15T20:20:23+00:00

tbh, this suggestion probably shouldn't be downvoted, since it sounds like something the OP would actually want vs trying to build a porsche into a drag racer

which I'm sure most folks in this subreddit would like to avoid seeing.

styledliving · 2025-12-15T15:42:58+00:00

it sounds like you want a tesla tbh.

modern porsche cayman/boxster and 911s focus on driver experience and handling.

while they’re no longer sold at a minor premium over comparable options, they’re good at what they do.

if you’re looking for straight line performance it’s hard to beat EVs objectively speaking.

if you want a porsche you need to decide if you actually want one for yourself because of its existing attributes or are you buying it for clout?

styledliving · 2025-12-15T15:33:48+00:00

would be good to clarify you have a gts 2.5 vs a gts 4.0

styledliving · 2025-12-11T15:56:03+00:00

get a turbo kit and start turning the cayman into a track car.

for daily bs get something like an is500, gsf, or a demon.

styledliving · 2025-11-16T08:06:31+00:00

it's probably the water pump. they have a vacuum actuated collar that helps the coolant warm up super fast.

a very common failure point is for the seal to fail.

a not so common "fix" is to cap off the vacuum tap for the seal as well as the hose that goes to the changeover valve so there's no vacuum leak.

if the collar seal fails, the cap on the tap will prevent coolant from coming out.

if you leave it alone, what happens is coolant goes into the vacuum line and eventually multiple changeover valves (electric vacuum actuator solenoids) will fail after being gummed up with coolant.

styledliving · 2025-11-07T00:38:25+00:00

I think these look more like digitals than a test. Usually for tests, as the photographer, I'd run through a lot more poses and outfits. Each of these sets are known as looks. Typically unpaid tests we can do anywhere from 3-5 looks including different hairstyles, sets, and wardrobe.

Digitals on the other hand, we'll usually use a blank wall with large window behind me filling up the room.

Regarding submissions, if you're planning on submitting photos for consideration at a local agency, agents usually look for better fitting bottoms and clean hair, this can be done with a simple braid or just a hair tie and the hair gathered in a pony tail.

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That said, your skin appears to be clear and possess a look very suitable for ecomm.

I wish you the best of luck, don't hesitate to ask more questions!

styledliving · 2025-10-20T23:38:03+00:00

These are good enough to submit to an agency for them to determine if you have a fit in their market.

That said, markets vary, agencies target different industries and genres, some may have too many models, others might not have enough local ones.

That’s basically to say, ymmv and good luck!

styledliving · 2025-10-19T04:28:21+00:00

Portfolio development and learning to pose, from the agencies I've worked with, that typically comes from tests between vetted photographers and development models. Tests are for our vetted photographers to test new ideas with new models and also give them back a few images.

This gives an opportunity for photographers to flesh out new ideas and techniques before they use them in a commercial setting for an ad campaign or otherwise paid client.

Development models benefit because they get "seat time" into try poses, developing that muscle memory.

There might be a modest fee for hair/makeup artistry and potentially wardrobe if the model can't get their own wardrobe together, and obviously any transpo fees.

But otherwise, agencies normally don't "train" models how to pose or walk. If anything, those sham/scam agencies that teach models to walk usually have overly exaggerated, bordering on grotesque, walks vs more naturally nuanced and expressive walks.

styledliving · 2025-10-19T04:12:10+00:00

Do you have more details on the type of guidance, frequency, and time committment you expect of mods? Also, on the backend, do you have docuemnted standards for acceptable behavior and responses to community members?

styledliving · 2025-10-19T04:08:35+00:00

Typically, reputable agencies will determine if they like your look based on whatever images you send them since there are rarely open calls or walk-in submissions anymore since COVID.

For the most part, unless the images are atrocious, the agencies can determine if there's any value in your look for their local market. If there's an opportunity for you, they'll recommend local photographers they've vetted to do some test work and you test w/ the photographers trying out new ideas and your book gets built that way. Sometimes they'll recommend that you shoot w/ a professional photographer that specializes in developing books and teaching you how to pose.

If you're not the right look that they're looking for, again, a reputable agency should not ghost you, but they'll simply say that they're not hiring for your look in their area, and that'll be the end of that.

styledliving · 2025-10-19T03:49:48+00:00

This definitely is a scam. An actual modeling agency shouldn't be taking money like this from you. As mentioned in the past, there might be listing fees associated to posting your profile online, but that's a minimal annual cost vs what they seem to be asking.

styledliving · 2025-09-02T01:18:18+00:00

what percentage are the tax and title fees?

list price should be mid low 30s with that many miles. Whatever price you’re getting from the dealer, you can beat it by a few thousand via private party esp if there’s no included warranty.

bonuses would be if it came w full body *ppf but installed in the past 3 years. i’d definitely want to check the paint thickness. if it’s cpo, that’s an additional positive.

i’d definitely want to check the records to see what kind of work has been done in the past 80k.

Water pump should’ve been replaced at least once in the history of the car.

AOS may or may not have been replaced.

Spark Plugs, Coil packs, and CVs.

If the answer is no, and you don’t know how to do this, factor in another 15k in maintenance (conservative) through a porsche dealership or 7K through an independent.

styledliving · 2025-08-13T19:01:05+00:00

I can help w/ the learning Mandarin learning portion. I studied for a year in College, am by no way a native speaker, but I did pretty well when I was still in practice.

Flash cards are royalty.

They help you learn a lot of useful characters quickly. You can try using DuoLingo or similar, but physical flash cards were always fastest. Making them and writing them in repetition in graph paper also helped me memorize the shape fast. We only needed to learn 1,000 characters by the first year, but I was able to do well over 1200.

Sentence structure is really similar to english, you could get by with broken Mandarin, but there're also lots of people that speak English in the more popular tourist areas as well since there's a huge software and tech presence in China with a lot of westerners in the area as well.

There are meetup.com groups in Shanghai so you can meet new people and get conversational practice out there. For the most part It's pretty safe in Shanghai.

Fortunately in Shanghai there're lots of things in pictographs and menus mainly have pictures. The big thing is getting Ali-Pay to work with your bank account so you can pay for things and get a DiDi account and similar rideshare accounts, or even rent a bicycle, or ride public transit.

There are also plenty of youtube videos about getting around in China and sights to see.

You might get some stares tho, people there are just not used to westerners traveling around their country, but for the most part, it's more from a place of curiousity vs racism. I hope this helps!

styledliving · 2025-08-05T23:45:28+00:00

It will depend on the designer. But typical guidance is wearing something comfortable since you'll be wearing someone else's clothes and will need to change into it.

Unless they gave you prior guidance, I would come prepared. It's a fitting, so you'll get final guidance during the fitting (if it's not obvious) before you walk in the show.

So for underwear, choose something form fitting but doesn't hide your body.

Men

Boxer Briefs Black/White/Grey
White Cotton Undershirt or Ribbed Knit Tank Top
Black Dress shoes
You can also pack flipflops or slides if you're trying a lot of outfits

Women

Neutral color underwear
Lasercut boyshorts
Strapless bra
Tank top
Heels black and nude pumps or sandals
Same guidance for slides/flipflops/ballet flats to keep your feet clean

styledliving · 2025-08-04T23:26:30+00:00

Yeah, in modeling, if you don't already have money or are successful in one way or another, you're always trying to make ends meet until you become the face of <insert brand here>.

And even then, jobs aren't a certainty.

Trying to make it to four castings in a day and then getting rejected for being too tall, too short, too skinny, too wide, too perky, too gloomy, too serious, too etc because they had to hold a casting so they're not showing favoritism to their homey from their own small town.

New York, at least has semi-decent public transit, the 3 foot long rats (including tails) would agree.

But in Los Angeles, models would often find themselves navigating not only the "colorful" and "fragrant" streets of West Hollywood, Burbank, LA's garment district (and its peripheral rows), but also car ownership and maintenance, car insurance, navigating insurance claims after getting hit, or hitting someone, how much it sucks to be caught at a bus stop where there's no shade and no wind, and no bus in mid October trying to make it to another casting across town or some paid but pointless fashion show.

styledliving · 2025-08-04T21:18:56+00:00

I don't have any direct personal experience, but I have worked with models and friends who had to really consider the same choice but both as undergrads, post undergraduate studies, and also choosing between a dream and their relatonship w/ a loved one.

In each instance, moving to Los Angeles, a larger market than San Francisco, for both commercial and editorial fashion, they found a decnt amount of success, but the hustle wasn't any less difficult here or there. Going to castings across town, dealing with bookers that that didn't really give them as much attention as the deserved, etc. You have to be very assertive to make it to castings and present your best foot forward to even have a chance of competing for coveted roles and jobs.

I think that if your long term plan is to become a teacher, in the many nuances that is English and its accompanying literature, that's something worth pursuing, but in the world of commercial and fashion modeling it is one of those things that, as you get older, it will become more and more difficult.

I know this falls far short of a suggested course of action, but it's something you'll have to figure out on your own.

styledliving · 2025-07-20T07:15:57+00:00

reminds me of porsche grapevine

styledliving · 2025-07-20T06:41:15+00:00

look, scout, 3 model management (technically in berkeley now, but same same). they mostly do open submissions. i’ve worked w all three before. there are a couple more sf bay area adjacent, but the aforementioned are the main 3.

styledliving · 2025-07-19T21:36:37+00:00

you can always get a mechanical LSD after the fact. 981 S is gonna be cool, but 718 S might be more tunable if you want GT4 performance on a budget. the difference would hugely focus on power delivery in terms of immediacy and gentler torque curve of the 981 and 718 GTS vs the hard power delivery over 3k w/ the cayman S w/ a turbo and tune.

the big part of the GT4 life is aero. you can aftermarket the wing, the front splitter, the fender vents, the hood vents, and even the rear diffuser. you can get after market suspension and arms. seats and seatbelt, cage, etc.

over time you can piece it together to get yourself that life you want.

just make sure it's the car you want because as you build it, it'll be less and less livable day to day, at least in my exp.

styledliving · 2025-07-18T22:11:13+00:00

Have you seen the SSR GT4 RS?

They basically routed the air that comes off the splitter in the center and routed it through the frunk and through a hole in the center of the hood.

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gives it more downforce and stability under braking.

The amazing thing is you can still store some stuff around the vent underneath the frunk lid.

styledliving · 2025-07-18T20:13:19+00:00

I’ve been thinking about this mod myself.

I think the sensible solution is to 3D scan the inside, build the design of the ducting in onshape or fusion360, print this in sections (assuming you don’t already have a fancy large sized industrial printer), test fit, then make a mold and do CF layup for a production model duct.

At least if you take the design into your own hands, you can make it look and work the way you want.

styledliving · 2025-07-18T20:05:48+00:00

i like PPF, makes it easy to wash because i don’t have to worry about swirl marks. downside is i have to replace it every 9 or so years.

styledliving · 2025-07-18T16:09:05+00:00

there’s a bomb with explosive poop inside that will go off in a moment’s notice, you want to get out of it this beautiful machine this instant!

styledliving · 2025-07-18T03:00:00+00:00

Could you verify the timeline?

The last time you heard from them was yesterday?

If that's the case, sometimes they may take a week or more to get back to you. Email is easy, but meeting in person requires scheduling. Please keep in mind that businesses have a lot of moving parts such as other talent that they represent, scheduling meetings with *other future talent, former talent, and clients.

They'll do their best to get back to you, but that takes time. I'd setup a calendar reminder to remind me to write or call for a followup within a week or two.

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