GregJGT3

http://http://www.ultimatecarpage.co...911-GT3-R.html


http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/6255/Porsche-911-GT3-R.html

I guess the race car does not need the rear air-intake fender vents!!

FORENN

Yup, first think you notice. Thanks for posting.

Maverick787

One was delivered in ATL two months ago to some lucky owner. I posted pics somewhere here.

Tacet-Conundrum

Man look at that price. You really pay more less for a Porsche. Imagine everything that has been stripped out to go racing to make the car lighter. Then trade over the racing gear.

As for the intakes, where are the engine's intake's located; a la Porsche Turbo?

NateOZ

Wait until Porsche moves to a Carbon Tub finally, then we'll be talking about how much of a bargain McLarens are...

kfmcmahon

I thought I read that the RS didn't necessarily need the side air intakes, but rather since it had the wide Turbo S rear quarter fenders it would be too expensive (for such a low volume car) to totally re-fabricate and manufacture brand new body panels?

FORENN

Interesting. Makes sense. If you have/find a link, please post.

rosenbergendo

First time for a 9a1 derived DI motor to be raced. I guess its worthy!!

the-missile

yes it is available in one of the AP interview he did on the RS.
He explained that creating specific rear fenders for the RS would be so costly that turbo vent where used.

GregJGT3

Apparently making the wider fenders for the GT3R and keeping the air flow as per the GT3 was not too expensive instead...

RossL

Or it is at 429k €

RossL

What's the redline is the real question! Is the GT3 the only 9k car still?

inndee

For some reason it won't let me post a link, but you can copy/paste this:

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/features/car-culture/a-guided-tour-of-the-2015-porsche-911-gt3-rs-by-the-boss/

The portion the-missle made mention of:

Q: Why have air intakes in the rear wings? No other RS does…

AP: We wanted to fool people looking at spy shots, I was so amused… they were saying, “oh no, it is a turbo!” We are not using this for intercoolers, we are using this for the intake, so we develop new ducts that go directly above the wheel, through the body in white, and into a race air filter, and we have cleaner air at the side of the car.

[It] was just a solution to get more power and being able to use the super-wide Turbo body – because otherwise we would have made new sides without the hole, which would have been mega expensive tooling. So we’ve made this situation a positive.

Normally we have the intake at the back of the car, so the air has to go over the roof, and when it leaves the roof it tends to get dirty, as we say, there are some swirls in it, the stream is not as linear as it is on the side of the cars. We have a better ram-air effect on the sides.

The side effect is the car has a specific sound, the intake goes partially through the body in white, which is adjacent to the interior of the car, so you hear the induction quite a lot more than you do on a GT3, especially when you have the windows down. I like that, it adds to the specialness of the driving sensation.

ElectricChair

Here are the photos

race7117

Video with White GT3 RS

https://vimeo.com/127918688