Is an 87-89 Carrera a good DE car?
08-04-2020, 01:40 AM
#16
Track Day
I love the 993, and if there is to be a "next Porsche" for me, it would likely be a '97 or '98 "S" (though I have played with the idea of getting a Boxster, there's so many of them available right now, and swapping the engine for a 3.6, or 3.8). Mid-engined (close to neutral) handling, with the added 996 motor, could be entirely awesome.
08-04-2020, 02:51 PM
#17
Quit Smokin'
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Wow, serious thread necro here... A lot has changed in the 18 years since this thread started. I'd say at this point a stock 911 SC or carrera 3.2 is a TERRIBLE idea for a car to get into DEs with... and I say that as someone who's track car at the moment is a torsion bar 911. The cars that track day bros are driving in 2020 are so fast that my 3.6 swapped 911G is a moving chicane on the straights in the advanced groups. You definitely have to be able to use your mirrors to drive a classic 911 in the faster groups today. If I was getting started tracking now, I would probably want a Cayman at a minimum and hope to grow into it. Other good options would be C6 or C7 corvettes or newer camaros.
08-04-2020, 03:28 PM
#18
I started DE last year in a 911 SC. Random data point to an old thread.
08-04-2020, 10:20 PM
#19
Nice thread recovery. First track session was a 72 911 in the 90s. First POC time trial was a 69. Then raced an 83 SC. Then moved to open-wheels.
I’d still vintage race any of them. Not so fast lap times relative to more modern cars, but as much fun...if not more.
I’d still vintage race any of them. Not so fast lap times relative to more modern cars, but as much fun...if not more.
08-06-2020, 12:51 PM
#21
Drifting
Oh boy ... does Auto Werks ever have a valid point !
I did PCA DE's with my 89 911 for 8-9 years and finally realized that a 3.2 vintage car has no place in the black run group.In the meanwhile i spent tons of $$$ installing
suspension parts, brake upgrades and eventually i installed a 95 3.6 with close to 300HP and i still needed a mechanical arm to point by all the GT3's, Caymans and other 385+ hp cars
that were running with me.
It is a great car to learn track awareness and driving lines with an instructor in a green or white run group but anything solo is kind of disappointing as you would be causing a train
for the faster cars and not all drivers are qualified to drive faster cars around slower vehicles.
I finally gave up DE's and bought a 944 SP2 car to race , although at some of the PCA enduros , we were matched up with Cup cars and GTB1 Caymans ... that is
quite an adventure when you have cars that are 15-20 seconds faster per lap for 90 minutes ...
A nicely sorted Boxster or Cayman would be the ideal DE car , if i ever go back to DE's one day , it will be in a Cayman !
Cheers
Phil
I did PCA DE's with my 89 911 for 8-9 years and finally realized that a 3.2 vintage car has no place in the black run group.In the meanwhile i spent tons of $$$ installing
suspension parts, brake upgrades and eventually i installed a 95 3.6 with close to 300HP and i still needed a mechanical arm to point by all the GT3's, Caymans and other 385+ hp cars
that were running with me.
It is a great car to learn track awareness and driving lines with an instructor in a green or white run group but anything solo is kind of disappointing as you would be causing a train
for the faster cars and not all drivers are qualified to drive faster cars around slower vehicles.
I finally gave up DE's and bought a 944 SP2 car to race , although at some of the PCA enduros , we were matched up with Cup cars and GTB1 Caymans ... that is
quite an adventure when you have cars that are 15-20 seconds faster per lap for 90 minutes ...
A nicely sorted Boxster or Cayman would be the ideal DE car , if i ever go back to DE's one day , it will be in a Cayman !
Cheers
Phil
08-06-2020, 01:47 PM
#22
Burning Brakes
Seriously, an 18 year old thread? I vintage race a '67 911. But in any other context I'd just be a dangerous rolling chicane.
