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Old 02-10-2009, 11:31 AM
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Question New GT3/RS with PCCB

With the improved steel brakes (380mm & less weight), how many of you will order the PCCB for your new GT3/RS?

I am going to get the new RS, but I still can't decide PCCB or not.
Old 02-10-2009, 11:56 AM
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Assuming I get an allocation, I'll be getting a non-RS with steel brakes.
Old 02-10-2009, 12:46 PM
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Turbo4ever--
From all of your recent posts, you seem so certain about a new RS. I am not saying there isn't one, but the certainty of which you speak about something so uncertain is getting a bit...ho hum. I mean, not a single spy shot or anything. A facelifted RS? Not likely. If you want a new GT3 soon, don't let the FL boat pass you by--you'll be waiting for quite a while for the one you are looking for.
Old 02-10-2009, 03:11 PM
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There will be one...mark my words.

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Old 02-10-2009, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by flash1034
There will be one...mark my words.

Flash
Ditto. Minor changes (from a manufacturing perspective) for big $$$ = profits that no company could resist. Put another way...cash cow.
Old 02-10-2009, 05:34 PM
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Back OT PCCB is becoming less appealing for its weight advantages...unless Porsche can improve something else about them...

Having said that I'm getting PCCB on my next RS.
Old 02-10-2009, 06:02 PM
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I have PCCB's now and probably will get a new GT3; my current thinking is not to get PCCB's for several reasons - the new steel brakes are more than adequate for my needs, with PCCB's I am always worried about the cost should I need new rotors, and simply the added cost. I love my PCCB's, however. (I don't track, though I'd like to do some DE's.)
Old 02-10-2009, 07:03 PM
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An RS with steel brakes..

I am hard on brakes as it it and the tracks around here are brake killers, so the PCCB's are too expensive to risk..
Old 02-10-2009, 11:49 PM
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Originally Posted by MJSpeed
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Having said that I'm getting PCCB on my next RS.
hum.... freudian slip?
Old 02-11-2009, 12:22 AM
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Originally Posted by mooty
hum.... freudian slip?
Old 02-11-2009, 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by flash1034
There will be one...mark my words.

Flash
I have marked your words, engraved 'em in fact on a few turds (everyone loves beans, and well, they tend to elongate things for somewhat more elaborate signatures) as well as of course yes, messages to the unknowing -- I've come back to haunt you Herbert, you bastard. That of course, being applicable only to divorcees with husbands named Herbert. But I digress.

I, as with many, do not believe we'll see a 997.2 RS. However, a bit of UV blacklight and...voila, we may yet see a glow-in-the-dark turd before the turn of the next century. Stranger things have happened. Hallejuliah brother!
Old 02-11-2009, 01:02 AM
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how hard is it to stick some GT3RS stickers onto the sides of an 997.2GT3?
Old 02-11-2009, 02:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Wayward
I have marked...
Does it count if the RS MK2 will be there but doesn't come to the USA?
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I'm not saying there won't be a 997.2 GT3 RS, but if you go back a few years, there were clearly both narrow and widebody variants of the test cars for the GT3 and RS respectively photographed periodically. The 997.2 GT3 fits into this category. Maybe there has been a 997.2 RS testing somewhere, but no one has photographed it, maybe its a bit farther away in development so none have been tested yet, or maybe it isn't coming at all. A few people on the board swear it is coming, so I am starting to think it will come as they know more than I do.
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Not sure why you guys get so caught up on the replacement cost of your PCCB's and the "what if's"

"If" something happened = replace with steel
"If" something never happens, well then...
"if" my uncle hat ****, he'd be my aunt


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