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Perfectlap · 02-22-2013, 01:23 PM

^ Porsche uses a race engine as part of their racing series and its LeMans contenders.
The GT3 customers want that engine and always get it. They DON'T want the street engine that goes in "regular" Carreras (the ones that don't have G and T after the 997), certainly not for the price they're asked to pay. They want the real deal. Many Carrera owners don't know that they get a completely different engine and probably don't care since most of those don't take their cars to the track or Autrocross. The rumor was that begining 2014 Porsche was going to stop giving the GT3 customers the race engine. They stopped giving the 997 Turbo buyers the race engine a few years ago, I think '09 was the last. Well now it turns out that Porsche has been secretely cooking up a completely new race engine that's going to rev like an F1 motor and the GT3 buyers will be getting it after all. They just have to pay double what a "lowly" entry-level Carrear runs. Actually the pricing isn'r too bad since the GT's are the only water-cooled Porsches that hold value anymore. Your'e coughing up $120K for a 991 S no matter what. So what's another $40K for another 50 HP, cool new aero bits and funny looking stickers on the outside? pennies...

The Center Lock wheel was an unrequested experiment by Porsche's engineers who apparently love watching Formula 1 pit stops and thought it would be really neat to have one big bolt securing the whole wheel instead of five little ones. Turns out they have some issues, like not keeping the wheels on the car. So they selectively chose certain GT3's, by VIN# apparently, but not all the of them, to come in for a fix. And Porsche also issued a bizzare warning that if you drove your track-oriented GT3 in "an unusually aggressive manner" <--- lawyer words, that all bets were off. Some have paid thousands of dollars to undo the Center Lock mechanism and return the wheel to a five bolt.

Oh and everyone who isn't a professional driver despises the idea of fun tracking a GT3 with PDK.

I think that sums it up... and they will probably sell more 991 GT3 than any previous GT3. Probably by a lot.
Too bad the Corvette Stingray Z06 variant will be faster With enough money left over to buy you 981 Cayman S.

02-22-2013, 01:23 PM	#5
Perfectlap Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 8,709	^ Porsche uses a race engine as part of their racing series and its LeMans contenders. The GT3 customers want that engine and always get it. They DON'T want the street engine that goes in "regular" Carreras (the ones that don't have G and T after the 997), certainly not for the price they're asked to pay. They want the real deal. Many Carrera owners don't know that they get a completely different engine and probably don't care since most of those don't take their cars to the track or Autrocross. The rumor was that begining 2014 Porsche was going to stop giving the GT3 customers the race engine. They stopped giving the 997 Turbo buyers the race engine a few years ago, I think '09 was the last. Well now it turns out that Porsche has been secretely cooking up a completely new race engine that's going to rev like an F1 motor and the GT3 buyers will be getting it after all. They just have to pay double what a "lowly" entry-level Carrear runs. Actually the pricing isn'r too bad since the GT's are the only water-cooled Porsches that hold value anymore. Your'e coughing up $120K for a 991 S no matter what. So what's another $40K for another 50 HP, cool new aero bits and funny looking stickers on the outside? pennies... The Center Lock wheel was an unrequested experiment by Porsche's engineers who apparently love watching Formula 1 pit stops and thought it would be really neat to have one big bolt securing the whole wheel instead of five little ones. Turns out they have some issues, like not keeping the wheels on the car. So they selectively chose certain GT3's, by VIN# apparently, but not all the of them, to come in for a fix. And Porsche also issued a bizzare warning that if you drove your track-oriented GT3 in "an unusually aggressive manner" <--- lawyer words, that all bets were off. Some have paid thousands of dollars to undo the Center Lock mechanism and return the wheel to a five bolt. Oh and everyone who isn't a professional driver despises the idea of fun tracking a GT3 with PDK. I think that sums it up... and they will probably sell more 991 GT3 than any previous GT3. Probably by a lot. Too bad the Corvette Stingray Z06 variant will be faster With enough money left over to buy you 981 Cayman S. __________________ GT3 Recaro Seats - Boxster Red GT3 Aero / Carrera 18" 5 spoke / Potenza RE-11 Fabspeed Headers & Noise Maker BORN: March 2000 - FINLAND IMS#1 REPLACED: April 2010 - NEW JERSEY -- LNE DUAL ROW Last edited by Perfectlap; 02-22-2013 at 01:43 PM.