orthojoe

They seem to have done ok for my buddy that had his car delivered with them. He liked them better than the trofeoR and was faster with them. I think they lasted him 4 days, but he killed the outer edges with stock alignment.

Mech33

If the Dunlops end up being way better for you, maybe you should just switch to those and keep current setup.

Macca

Fair call Joe. Too much buggering around given you have shims fitted etc. Be interested how you go with the dunlops. I have reverted to stock geo and look like I'll get five days max on the track with my current MPSC2 and 5000 road km including 1500 fast road work, but I'm pushing in a bit now and with my prior -2.15 settings I doubt I'd have made it past 6 track days...

orthojoe

True! Lol!

mlpor

Not directly on point but for out "funny rubber" winter snows, e.g. tires like the Bridgestone Blizacks, the local winter ice track junkies track talk about a shelf life in the 3 year range - these are the kind of guys who ONLY put the funny rubber on for the Steamboat Bridgestone track. The Porsche winter performance programs in Finland now seem to uniformly much use a studded tire, so . . . . . one has a pretty good visual indicator for traction availability - run them till the studs start coming out, or disappear. FWIW, I'm told they'll now offer a GT3 &/or GT3RS on some level of studded tire in 2016 - or if you have the $$$$ you can do a Cup Car

orthojoe

Some photos from Laguna Seca:

MileHigh911

Great pics Joe!!

Maxi_z

I would be interested to know if anyone of those who track the gt3 fitted or want to fit different suspension arms or control arms with monoball instead of rubber bushings.

I tried the gt3 on track with just some more camber brake hoses and pagid rs29 pads but felt that it lack a little precision near the limit and was reading about the bbi autosport street cup suspension parts and other parts and control arms on tarrett website but would like to read some review specific to the 991 gt3.

orthojoe

The only changes made to my suspension components have been the tarret monoball lower control arm end and the RSS adjustable thrust arm bushings. I needed the thrust arm bushings to correct excessive caster as a result of my camber settings. The LCA monoball end was needed to remove the preload that occurred as as result of putting in the solid thrust arm bushing.

24Chromium

Joe, what was your personal best at LS?

orthojoe

1:38.4 on mpsc2
1:38.6 on trofeoR

Ben has done 1:37.6

I haven't heard of anyone doing 1:36 or better yet, but I'm sure there are people out there who can on a stock setup.

oldskews4

I'm honestly a little surprised that your times aren't lower. A well driven 6GT3 (stock drivetrain/suspension) on NT01's did high 38's. I mean it does have almost 100 more HP, PDK, rear steering etc etc..

orthojoe

I did say that I was sure there are people out there that can do better.

orthojoe

This is a video of my 1:38.4 vs a respected local pro driving my car on the same day with me as passenger and running into traffic at the end running 1:39.x. Granted, he wasn't going 10/10ths, but I don't think my time is something crazy slow.



Track conditions play a role as well, I think. I'm betting we'll see faster times from everyone after the rain season early next year.
I remember running 1:41 consistently in my spyder in early spring, but the rest of the year I was running 1:43.

Mech33

Ouch!! Maybe you just need that -3/-3.5 alignment, Joe?