July / August 2016
37
By Jeff Hallam
Old Road, New CAR
NEW EXPERIENCE
I
t seems like half a year has passed
since May 14th when our group of KC
Porsche Club members chicaned from
the Ameristar Casino parking lot to The
Elms in Excelsior
Springs. We
were greeted
with a cool but
beautifully sunny
spring day in
contrast to the
Death Valley
summer heat we
have suffered
through over the
past couple of
weeks.
This was my second fun run with my new
(to me) 2014 Cayman S and this run had
many more twists and turns to let the car
show its pedigree! Bob Wayman put together
an awesome route through the country just
north of the Missouri River. After a couple
of months of
ownership I had
been able to sort
out the differences
between the 2008
and the 2014. The
biggest difference
was switching to
a PDK automated
transmission car
versus the 6 speed
manual in my old
Cayman S. The new car also has PASM
versus the lowered "R" suspension on the
old car but the real difference is in the
