New 991 GT3 / Exclusive pics and information. The real deal & at last some good news!
#946
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It's a pre-presentation "interview". And EVO took it first. What did you expect? 60 minutes?
They have plenty of time to do pathetic later this year.
It didn't bother me, and AP was just being brutally honest re cost.
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Looks great.
According to AP; Is heavier but goes like hell because the car does more for you with PTV and rear wheel steering, does not feel like **** or sound like.
The whole clutch in with 2 flappies in, sounds like and excuse to me, good luck trying that with SC on.
According to AP; Is heavier but goes like hell because the car does more for you with PTV and rear wheel steering, does not feel like **** or sound like.
The whole clutch in with 2 flappies in, sounds like and excuse to me, good luck trying that with SC on.
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Also, looks like honda was on to something back in the days of the Prelude SH 4 wheel steer models...
Other than that, can't wait to check out the car!
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The 991 GT3 is going to be a revolution of minds to think in terms of driving a 911 in the "analog" world that the likes of Chris Harris will convey in his reviews of this 911. It's going to be a matter of setting aside ring times and local lap times as being the by-product of a computer age when the software drivers are becoming more significant to lap times than the driver.
I'm afraid the next year of time trials at the local Porsche Club will see all kinds of lap records "fall" but I think these new electronic 911's with PDK should not be subject to "points," they should simply go into separate classes of time records.
And it will be all I can do to not get arrested for bloodying the nose of the first paddock racing blow hard rejoicing in being behind the wheel when his 991 GT3 posts a lap time faster than an RS 4.0 … : )
#950
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I was confused myself, but when you watch the video with Preuninger it definitely shows a wheel with a conventional left paddle downshift/right paddle upshift, regardless of what the text in the UK press release says......
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Four wheel steer... Yawn!!!!
Was driving a Honda with it 20 years ago... Wouldn't call it ground breaking, just something capable of breaking on track... Look forward to seeing how it will complicate track set up and alignment for the track....
Was driving a Honda with it 20 years ago... Wouldn't call it ground breaking, just something capable of breaking on track... Look forward to seeing how it will complicate track set up and alignment for the track....
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Faster, sure, and love the wide body, 9K redline and shorter gears...but this confirms PDK only, so not for me.
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Rear air scoop -
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Ya'll ping me when they put a 9A1 block in a race car.....
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Is it me or did values just go up on our cars.
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#958
I'm not sure at all what he meant by 100ms "reaction" time. It's quick number, but yes, the Scuderia as a single actuation was 60 ms gear to gear and even less time with the engine developing less than 100% power for rpm. I just can't think of a situation where 100ms has anything to do with PDK since upshifts are 100% overlap (both gears engaged simultaneously and both clutches engaged simultaneously with overlap to cause the engaging clutch to multiply torque with slip and propel the car forward during the shift) with continuous 100% engine power for rpm. Even 10ms doesn't make sense since the actual event is either what you'd measure as instantaneous or perhaps better described as continuous, or even a sort of negative time event if you think about the work being delivered between the two drive paths through the box (the sum of the two exceeds 100% for the time that the engaging clutch is slipping and delivering more torque than the disengaging clutch.) It will be interesting to learn more about this new PDK design and programming.
#960
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As the designated sports car for the race track, a dry sump oil supply continues to be used for the 911 GT3. This meant that the oil pan had to be entirely re-developed. Just like the base engine, the high-performance engine is equipped with four suction points in the cylinder heads, an extraction in the oil pan, and an oil pressure pump. The engine of the 911 GT3 has two additional suction points in the oil pan at the front and rear, so as to be able to safely transfer oil to a separate oil tank during heavy acceleration and braking phases.