drnick

i was giving the rear wiper mounting some r&r work yesterday and i can see how easily the weight was piled on to these cars. really solid casting and quite some redundancy in the engineering adds up. my dilemma is how to give up all the comfort that was built in!

kjcracer

You're right, they are two separate cars.
One is GT Cup car, for the German Porsche Club....which had essentially chassis stuff.
The Group N car was a highly modified racecar. Special cams, intake, all sorts of trick stuff. I figured that since the driver was Roland Kussmaul... who worked at Porsche (still does as test driver for the Cup cars)... if there were any "insider" secrets, he'd get them. While I have done plenty of "wheel inventing" myself, over the years, it's hard to beat learning stuff from the factory...it doesn't come any more thorough, and saves a lot of development cost. I'd given up writing more follow-up letters, looking for the video (or anything more) a few years ago...never could get a response. It's time for somebody with actual persons in Germany to go at this task...which is what Michael and I were attempting to facilitate. Keep me posted....