destaccado

Again. The 991 GT3 shares some body panels, suspension components, brakes, and the 991 chassis with the GT3 racecar. Everything else = "feels"

Great car. Maybe better than previous GT3s for the street. Still not a GT3. The free market has already decided I'm correct by the explosion in value of the older cars. It's not just the manual transmission that led to that.

tcsracing1

lol. agreed

Manifold

destaccado, nothing wrong with fairly criticizing the car, but you have to make a coherent and compelling case. Instead, seems that you're drifting into self-contradictions.

orthojoe

destaccado

Point out 1.

Manifold

It's OK for GT3 and cup to have few or no identical parts for the 996 and 997, but not for the 991. Is that not what you said?

jlanka

What engine is in the RSR?

Mike in CA

Sorry, you're wrong about that. The new CL's have larger bearing journals and larger wheel bearings that are identical to the GT3 Cup. The GT3 specific CL also now has a stronger wheel hub for better camber stability and the carrier bots are fixed to the wheel hub instead of the brake chamber as with the 997 GT3 and more generic CL versions in other models.

rockitman

The troll is hungry...stop feeding him.

doubleurx

There's no point Manifold. I pointed this out as well. His argument, best I can tell, is it should only have the GT3 name if the cup car uses the same motor........regardless of how good the car is on the street and track.

Let's leave it at that and let him go waffle between his selection of burmeister or Bose.

destaccado

The 996 and 997 GT3 share derivatives of the same CUP motor and the CUP is homologated off of it. This isn't the case with the 991.

So yes -- that's not what I said.

Porsche decided the 991 GT3 wasn't a GT3 when they didn't use the motor in the race car. If that changes in the future than my opinion on the 991 GT3 would change as well.

Jimmy-D

I am eating my popcorn from the bleachers.

This is fun!!

destaccado

Does the 997.2 3RS offer retrofitable Burmeister? I wouldn't mind having it actually.

Manifold

You're right. Signing off for the evening before the wife gets sleepy, I can think of a better way to spend my time and energy .

destaccado

What makes the GT3 the GT3 is the homologation process. 'The race car based off the street car' -- the only GT3 model this doesn't apply to is the 991. That wasn't my decision -- it was Porsche's.

Same thing with World Superbike in motorcycles; my 1199R is the homologation model of the 1199R race bike. When Ducati starts calling the next model the "R" and it isn't used for homologation I'll cry foul.