992 Manual - Burnout?
09-20-2021 | 09:33 PM
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09-20-2021 | 09:40 PM
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09-20-2021 | 09:47 PM
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Not to hijack the thread with Pantera stories, but when I was a kid this doctor was showing his new one off in the hospital parking lot. The car spun as he floored the accelerator, then bounced over a couple of curbs before he got it stopped. The car was totaled.
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09-20-2021 | 10:00 PM
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M Engineering indicates their tune can raise the RPM limit in neutral on manual equipped cars. Of course, the tune will kill your warranty but this seems to be the only solution for those of us who want to do a good old fashioned hard launch off the line. Personally, I don’t want to do that but it would be great if I could just rev in neutral and hear the exhaust sing beyond 3500 RPM.
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09-20-2021 | 11:40 PM
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09-20-2021 | 11:43 PM
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They removed clutch kick and pdk gear kick down (pedal WOT, in 7th, pull downshift and it would drop to lowest gear before redline. slingshot) on the 991.2. So if you want to go from 7th to 3rd real quick you had to hit the lever 4 times or slap it into full auto mode. It was gay.
09-21-2021 | 04:26 PM
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09-22-2021 | 08:21 AM
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911 MT's have never launched well.too much rear weight bias,always wheel hop and hard on the power train. Had a 996 GT2 tried launching and the wheel hop was awful. My first 911 was a 87 tried a launch and smoked the clutch. PDKs have launching down by balancing clutch slip/wheel spin and torque/rpm ..cant do that with the manual, they limit RPM to save drive train warranty claims. .
Did a lot of burnouts in HS with my $150- 56 Pontiac it had 3-two barrels and three on the tree. I could replace the clutch in less than 2hours @ ($35 each) they lasted about a month, burnouts are hard on a car!
Haven't replaced a clutch since, 41 MT cars over the last 56 years, lesson learned.. carl
Did a lot of burnouts in HS with my $150- 56 Pontiac it had 3-two barrels and three on the tree. I could replace the clutch in less than 2hours @ ($35 each) they lasted about a month, burnouts are hard on a car!
Haven't replaced a clutch since, 41 MT cars over the last 56 years, lesson learned.. carl
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09-22-2021 | 10:26 AM
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It seems that with the manual the only way to launch it is to feather the clutch as opposed to revving the engine enough so that it won't bog. This, to me, seems harder on the car than allowing for a higher initial rpm. I would like to hear what the engineers who designed the car had in mind. In the GTS review video of the manual, the reviewer could not get anywhere close to the 0-60 time claimed by Porsche due to the bog. I wonder how it is supposed to be done? I assume the PDK feathers the clutch?
09-22-2021 | 02:47 PM
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Porsche are very clear that manual 992's are not intended for traffic light derbies, they don't give a toss about how it really performs off the line. For that you want the PDK which as we know is brilliant there.