I found some errors too, but did not document and don't recall what they were. But... since the browser tab is still open, I can tell you they were before p. 75 and were comments made by owners in their write-ups. One might have been a guy who attributed the (200 lb.??) wt. savings of the lightwts. to deletion of sound proofing and not to the thin glass and steel also.

I found a few interesting tidbits early on, but the book is generally not about the cars per se, but the experiences of the owners. I agree with the review on Amazon that said as much and gave it 3 stars...

 

"The crankshaft was aluminium" p. 75 on the RS 3.0 - seems odd

 

I don't recall all of them but the RSA supplied with magnesium wheels?? and IIRC there were discrepancies about wheel sizes amongst others that quickly stood out.

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics...try/crankshaft

 

some of this thing is pretty interesting...

p. 104 - The famed Austrian conductor Herbert "Von Karajan didn’t want a radio." But he did "test[] several exhaust systems for their sound quality."

guy was a big car nut too

 

964 Speedster RS, who knew?

 

"the 964 lineup was not considered especially agile at the time. Peter Falk, one of the most important Porsche engineers, criticised the car’s handling characteristics and eagerly stated that its successor would require more than just a few changes."
- there is also a glancing blow at the blobby look of the 964
p. 157 (intro to the 993 section)

 

I guess that is why Walter Rohrl who had his pick of any 911, chose a 964 RS as his personal car. Unfortunately the changes they made took all the IMO fun out of it and the 964 which looks like most all previous 911's looks blobby compared to the 993 LOL.

 

the bumpers are blobby looking - the nice thing is that you can convert them to look like an early car

could Rohrl have chosen a 993 RS at that time?

 

I guess they look blobby not my opinion though. I never was a fan of the bellows bumpers always looked like an afterthought to me. The lines of the 964 alongside a long nose are more similar than the bellows cars IMO. Not a fan of a backdated 964. They rarely look right to me.

AFAIK he chose the 964 not all that many years ago. Just before the market rise.

 

well, I never claimed the blob bumpers weren't an improvement on the bellows bumpers(!)

Early cars & 993 are the best looking IMO

 

Interesting read, thanks for sharing!

 

For high speeds "the additional 20bhp [of the RS 3.0 over the 2.7L RS] was totally absorbed by the wider fenders and the poorer drag coefficient associated with the changed aerodynamics."

The 0-60 times were better for the 3L: "Whereas the RS 2.7 needed 5.8 seconds to reach the 100km/h mark, the RS 3.0 managed the same feat in 5.5 seconds"

p. 77

 

That makes sense. My 74 3.0 tribute topped out at 160mph from both gearing and the wide hips but was faster than a 930 turbo at the time from 0-60. The 272 hp Max Moritz motor had a lot to do with it including the light weight.