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I’ve been in the passenger seat when this has happened on a 718 GT4. Happened on 3rd and we lost all odd gears and reverse.
Same issue.
How’d you find the performance of the 718 GT4?
Superior German engineering! I think the unusual heat of lapping on track combined with harder than usual shifts somehow exposes a flaw there.
GT4 did well actually. It's got legs, even bone stock. At the end of Sochi's really long straight it was going as fast as my 450 HP PDK race car which comes off the previous corner a lot better with the slicks. That car does have a draggier wing on it, but still. Overrated the 4.0 is not. And it's just got such a wide powerband compared to the previous gen. Maybe the peak torque isn't any higher (officially) but you get away with picking a longer gear through some corners just fine because it's just there throughout the entire rev range from 4K onwards. Suspension a bit on the soft side and the rear is too unstable on initial turn-in but that's with our "just slap some more camber on and we'll see what it does" initial setup. The Cup 2 tires are still the factory set and have 6K street miles on them, not ideal. Brake balance and ABS are much better than on my 981 race conversion, but the TC needs to be off to get out of corners at full tilt. I experimented a bit but mostly didn't turn off the nannies because of the loose rear and the speeds involved.
It’s certainly going to be a better car and I’m sure it will be “worth” the upgrade if you can afford it. I bought the M2CS and talk about “worth” it or not. Did they put 30k worth of worth in that car? Nope. But is it the best M car, as someone said “the pinnacle”? For sure. So glad I have it in my garage.
Nice. I gave up my M2CS allocation last summer to get my GT4. My BMW called me when their car came in last month and offered it to me anyway, but it just didn’t make sense to have both. I would absolutely love to have one though . . . My F80 has the M3 CS suspension on it and it really transformed the car.
I had the first dry trackday in my GT4 today and before lunchtime I got stuck in 4th gear and all other gears had gone missing when trying to find them with the shifter. Figured I had snapped a cable or broken the mechanism inside the gearbox. Turns out it was fixable with a zip tie. Something about the bit of the shift cables and how they attach to the gearbox wasn't gripping properly. heh.
Is this something that can be checked and fixed before it happens?
unfortunately, the answer is no. thanks Matt Farah. I was hoping this would be the advantage gained from the GT4RS's PDK, to have a more active gearbox, but reduction in gear length is so minimal that it doesn't make a difference. while driving hard on his usual road.. barely got into 3rd gear.. most of the time in second even with pdk. As a previous Spyder owner who hated the long gearbox, this is disappointing. damn
unfortunately, the answer is no. thanks Matt Farah. I was hoping this would be the advantage gained from the GT4RS's PDK, to have a more active gearbox, but reduction in gear length is so minimal that it doesn't make a difference. while driving hard on his usual road.. barely got into 3rd gear.. most of the time in second even with pdk. As a previous Spyder owner who hated the long gearbox, this is disappointing. damn
2nd gear manual: 83 mph
3rd gear manual: 113mph
2nd gear pdk: 79mph
3rd gear pdk: 108mph
That top of 2nd PDK number is wrong. I’ve banged it against the limiter in manual and in auto dozens of times; the number is 73 mph.
I doubt the top of 3rd is correct above either. The PDK gearbox is around 10% shorter so you can do the maths.
Farah has the standard YouTube "journalist" qualifications - none. I pretty much watch YouTube reviews for laughs.
None? The guy’s driven pretty much every modern sports car on the planet and probably has 10x the seat time of most of the keyboard jockeys on RL. You know he wrote for Road & Track, right?
Last edited by Archimedes; 02-27-2021 at 08:24 PM.
Now it makes sense why the PDK gearing is so much better. I find myself doing 78+ in the corners of my local mountain roads all the time. With the PDK I can at least use third gear. In the manual I’d have to do 85, which is just nuts.
Last edited by Archimedes; 02-27-2021 at 09:52 PM.
Now it makes sense why the PDK gearing is so much better. I find myself doing 78+ in the corners of my local mountain roads all the time. With the PDK I can at least use third gear. In the manual I’d have to do 85, which is just nuts.
wait theres a third gear?! jk drove the spyder today its a complete beast the way it is. The pdk guys know u can shift below 8000 right?
02-27-2021, 04:21 PM
