Anyone have a GT3 RS carbon fiber hood they want to sell?

 

@powdrhound

 

I have three of them. One I'm keeping as a spare, the other one is spoken for, one is available.

 

Thanks, just sent you a DM.

 

Reach out to Gert as well.

 

Thanks, yeah. I am kind of looking for an impulse buy that is stateside and ready to go. My car is primed and about to be color changed, and I have been going back and forth with getting an RS hood, and just wanted to see if anyone had one stateside that I could ship quickly to my body shop. If powdr wants to part with his I would love to buy it otherwise I probably will just stick with the aluminum one I have.

 

Where did you get an aluminum hood?

 

I don't know it was on the car when I purchased it a couple of months ago.

The car was owned by one of the owners of Goldcrest in Atlanta's sons', and had been serviced there its whole life. I assume they had one and threw it on at some point.

My goal is to try to make my GT3 basically a GT3 RS, until it comes time to rebuild the engine, then I will probably go to 3.9 or 4.2. I really love the engine as it is. I mostly have air cooled cars, and have a lightweight SWB hot rod that has coilovers and GT3 suspension, and weirdly of all of the water cooled cars I have driven, the 996 GT3 feels the most like my SWB car . I def have no expertise though so that is just a feel thing.

 

If it is indeed an aluminum hood your gains from the carbon hood will be pretty negligible, although I can certainly understand the want for it anyway. It is a killer piece. If you have any photos of the underside or any identifying marks on your hood that would be interesting

 

Yeah, I think the gains will be mostly in a cool factor of basically trying to make it like an RS. Looking for uprights as well. The car is at the painter, I will see if I can get a few pics, and will report back!

 

There are 6 M004/RS large hardware items; front uprights, rear uprights and rear subframe side sections. Uprights (wheel carriers) for both front and rear are readily available from Porsche, though not cheap. Right rear side section is NLA - so I'd go for the 997.1 forged LCAs (shorter than the cast 996 items) on stock rear side sections to achieve reasonable camber.

Do not underestimate the number of parts associated with a complete conversion. Brackets for brake lines, heat shields, bolts. You need the small brake pipes between the flexi and the caliper from the 997.1 GT3 with 350mm (steel) brake discs also. Ontop of that are the obvious things like wheel bearings

 

Your hood is steel. There was never any 996 hood made in Aluminum.

 

It is a big collection of parts, think it set me back around $15k prior to tariffs and the last increases in prices. Have the identical setup on my GT3 so I picked up all the parts to do the same running gear in my 996 Widowmaker project.

 

This was my understanding as well...never once seen an aluminum 996 hood (although the 997 units are indeed aluminum).

 

This is in the UK, and not OE, but still maybe of interest . . . I'll ping the guy on FB if so.