ADOGNY

Man... mmm208 gets b*tch slapped around here more than a hooker does by their pimp..

The guy is just trying to figure out what he wants... Looks like the TT if anything so let's leave it at that...

Let's hear more feedback about the GT3 - I love it!

mmm208

I dont think people in here got my point. i love the gt3 . it just needs to be geared different.

im asking for a collective help in hear. i would like to find out if i could change the final gear ratio with genuine porche parts. the car would be amazing with that change.

i really wan the car badly. its hot as hell and i know i wouldnt like the TT.

fahren affair

i think mmm208's observations are valid. the e46 M3 is no slouch. i spent 2-days with thw LA chapter of the bmwcca last month at fontana (track event) i was spanked unmercifully by a few very-well-driven M3s running on R-compound rubber and aggressive suspension setups. my car was essentially stock by comparison. I did get my revenge on the big oval and pulled away from everything except a 996tt

mmm208

If we all make a collected effort i think we could find out . i called many dealers ans they dont know squat about this .

helpppp!!!!!

rockitman

Just worked out an alternate finance arrangement for , what I can say now, MY NEW GT3!!!! Yessssss!!!!. I will be taking care of the paperwork Saturday and picking it up on Tuesday.... Some specs:

Atlas Metallic Grey
Full Black Leather
Lowered Seats
Carbon shift/brake
xenon's and some other extra's...This was from a guy who had to back out of the order upon delivery....I posted earlier this week how I test drove it and loved it so much more than the turbo that I bought it but had to back out. Well I am back!!! Pornographic pics of her to follow next week.

ben in lj

you want to judge a new car without properly bedding pads, new tires, and an engine that wasn't broken in (and now hasn't been properly)? if that car wasn't broken in, i have to wonder about the integrity of someone who rags on a car by ignoring all break in requirements for tires, brakes, and drive train (s)he knows someone else is going to be buying without knowing how much disrespect the car has received.

ADOGNY

I do agree with the looks - Best looking factory 911 in a long time. GT2 is hot but those rims have to go...

I was told that these cars are pre-broken in from the factory already. I am taking it a little easy on the car anyway, but is that not true?

rockitman

They do break-in the engine at the factory, however, the recommended brake-in described in the manual is more for the tranny, clutch, brakes and other various parts to break-in properly....

Steve in FL

mmm208: Your mistake is calling dealers and expecting they'll know anything about modifying a Porsche with racing parts. Guard Transmission will be happy to sell you gear sets and recommend a shop to do the installation. If you want "Genuine Porsche parts" (which would still void your new car warranty I imagine, at least for the transmission) try contacting Porsche Motorsports

Ghost Rider

I think mmm208 should buy a Boxster first and learn to drive it well and once he's graduated through the Boxster put him in a base C2 or maybe a C4S and then eventually he may work his way up to the GT3 or TT. This review of the GT3 has to be one of the funniest, or should I say saddest, that I've read. Metalsolid had it right, or RR, you need a Vette or something.

I'm sorry he didn't like the car, but a change of gears isn't going to "fix" his problem. I was on the track this past weekend with a professional race car driver in a GT3 so I'm fully aware of what that car can do when opened up and in capable hands and neither the driver nor myself as a passenger ever thought about needing different gears.... just when I think I've heard it all...

Steve in FL

Ghost Rider: mmm208 does strike me as someone that doesn't appreciate the GT3 for what it is but his commentary on gearing isn't completely unreasonable. I don't see a top end of 190mph as being very useful on US roads (since I live too far from NV to participate in the Open Road Racing events) or on my "home" track of Sebring. To that end I've looked at changing the gearing, and found a nearby ALMS GT3RS team shop that can do the work, but I'm going to wait until I get some track time on the stock gearing to evaluate it in real life before I make any changes.

mmm208

I thank you for seeing my point. I know people who have lowered their final drive on other cars that geared way too high with great success. it will shave a few tenths off 0-60 times and will dramatically liven up low end response. no one in here needs to go 190 mph (even on the track). lowering final drive will make the car a perfect 10. it will be faster than the turbo in every speed test.

im also surprised at some of the immature responses to my earlier posts. i wonder on the class of some of the people in here. some of you sound like gutter rats with the use of language and tone of words used against me. my obervations are not to insult anyone in here. they are just my opionion. you make it as if the gt3 were a God and your worshipping it. take it down a level . its just a car. there more important things in life like health family and happiness.

Steve in FL

mmm208: You misunderstand if you think my interest in changing gearing is so a GT3 "will be faster than the turbo in every speed test." That is a battle the GT3 will lose as it's as easy to modify the turbo gearing and much easier to extract more horspower from a turbo engine. I simply want gearing more appropriate to the track. You seem to be interested in how fast you can get to a particular speed and if your body will be pressed into the seat getting there. That's the forte of a turbo, not the GT3.

Ghost Rider

Steve, you seem to have experience on the track, but mmm208 doesn't, hence my comments about maybe he would be better off "learning" in another car and then graduating up to a GT3 or a TT. I've known far too many people who go out and buy something with a lot of HP and just automatically assume that it will make them "fast" on the track. Then again, I guess I am assuming that mmm208 wants to be fast on the track, maybe he just wants to be fast stoplight to stoplight in which case he ought to buy a nitrous injected turbo supra or something similar...

9caregiver

Greetings,

Check out this month's Panorama for an excellent article and track test by Joe Rusz. Also another good article in Excellence magazine. I did not read of these guys complaining about gearing.

Best,

Don


P.S. Ghost, Those cars do make them fast on the track...On the straights then they dog off line through the turns. Been there many a time.