RS Exhaust To Be Retrofittable to GT3?
07-07-2015, 07:19 PM
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07-07-2015, 10:56 PM
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I've attached an old document produced by Akra where they went through the homolgation of the first time Porsche had ever used a titanium exhaust on a road car - a 911 GT2 at the time. Akra owns a number of critical patents so still does the OEM exhausts on the RS.
07-07-2015, 11:01 PM
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Porsche can probably do anything they wanted.
Heck, they built a hybrid GT3 R long before the phrase "hybrid supercar" ever made it into our everyday nomenclature, or started trending on Twitter.
The point isn't whether they can (of course, they can); rather, the issue is whether they should.
And the answer, while not obvious, is no.
While the GT3 market is smaller and more defined than one for the 911 Carrera, there are still many varied tastes, preferences and individualized requirements within that smaller, more defined GT3 market base.
Overlay that demand-base with all the varying different government rules and regulations that the GT3 is sold in -- from the Euro countries, to North and South America, to Asia, to our friends down-under.
Now, sit down, and imagine you're the Porsche engineer with the pocket-protector trying to design an exhaust that meets all the above requirements (and probably some obvious ones I'm forgetting) and optimize the car's performance from an engineering perspective.
GLWT.
Heck, they built a hybrid GT3 R long before the phrase "hybrid supercar" ever made it into our everyday nomenclature, or started trending on Twitter.
The point isn't whether they can (of course, they can); rather, the issue is whether they should.
And the answer, while not obvious, is no.
While the GT3 market is smaller and more defined than one for the 911 Carrera, there are still many varied tastes, preferences and individualized requirements within that smaller, more defined GT3 market base.
Overlay that demand-base with all the varying different government rules and regulations that the GT3 is sold in -- from the Euro countries, to North and South America, to Asia, to our friends down-under.
Now, sit down, and imagine you're the Porsche engineer with the pocket-protector trying to design an exhaust that meets all the above requirements (and probably some obvious ones I'm forgetting) and optimize the car's performance from an engineering perspective.
GLWT.
07-08-2015, 06:07 AM
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A bit off-topic question.
I've seen few GT3 with cup exhaust vids on Youtube. Is that cup exhaust made by Porsche or those exhaust are actually made by 3rd party but named "cup exhaust" ?
If don't take "street legal" things into consideration, I think it sounds pretty good.
I've seen few GT3 with cup exhaust vids on Youtube. Is that cup exhaust made by Porsche or those exhaust are actually made by 3rd party but named "cup exhaust" ?
If don't take "street legal" things into consideration, I think it sounds pretty good.
07-08-2015, 12:16 PM
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But just out of curiosity and pure ignorance, is the 991 GT3 RS center muffler also made of titanium like the 997 RS one?
The 991 GT3 is steel, so wondering why PAG would make the switch back to titanium for this generation's RS.