Originally Posted by wanna911

Fake enthusiasts are the ones who want a sports car and have money but have no passion for cars. Posers are the bench racers who will talk trash about performance this and that all day and never break the speed limit (even on the track, lol). The GT3 used to be a race car for the street, it's clearly headed in a different direction. Emphasis on GT.

This is an opinion forum, and opinions are given. Even when there is no assurance as to what's going to happen. If you don't like to hear opinions, then this is probably not the place for you......

Originally Posted by Earlierapex

It might be sound to follow your own advice, but rather than name calling, why dont we just stick with poking fun in good jest? I could ask you if you know how to install a 1976 912 4cyl in a 997, and you could inquire as to whether i have wired my steering wheel to my navi system?

Originally Posted by TRAKCAR

Awesome thread. I just read it twice and I think its good for 1 million pages.
I do however have a few questions;

What is a 912? Will the next one be a 910 after the 911?
What are throttle bodies, magnetos and carburators?

Originally Posted by Earlierapex

..... and you could inquire as to whether i have wired my steering wheel to my navi system?

Originally Posted by Mike in CA

Now I have to know....have you? What gauge did you use? Is it fused?

Originally Posted by TRAKCAR

Awesome thread. I just read it twice and I think its good for 1 million pages.
I do however have a few questions;

What is a 912? Will the next one be a 910 after the 911?
What are throttle bodies, magnetos and carburators?

Originally Posted by aussie jimmy

magneto is the distributor.

Originally Posted by stevecolletti

It was my understanding that magnetos provided both the 'spark' and the timing.

Originally Posted by Bob Rouleau

Wanna - have you ever driver a sequential? I have. Nice on a track but impossible on the street. All of the Cup Car guys with sequential gearboxes will agree.

I had a 430 with F1 for a couple years, have you driven one? The F1 tranny is in all ways inferior to the PDK and fragile on top of that. Maybe that's why Ferrari switched to a PDK type transmission in the newer cars.

If you don't like PDK, that's fine but why don't you leave it at that.

Originally Posted by wanna911

Weight, driver involvement (required). I'd take Porsche putting oakley faux sequentials in before PDK. I'd also take a Ferrari F1 transmission which is also lighter but more in tune with the driver and fits more with the GT3 mantra.

I blame lazy unauthentic Americans for influencing Porsche too much. The GT3 started off as a track car that you drive on the street. Now it's just like the rest of them, "race inspired" but not race ready. They sent us the .1 GT3 with no sunroof delete option because that's what they think of us. Surely they won't mind faux CL, that have no benefit. Surely they won't mind 20" wheels on their "race car". Just like they didn't mind the .1 RS with bright colors and no more speed than the GT3 we can charge a a lot more for it too.

It's just like most of the people who are talking about the track advantages used to go to the track, or don't go to the track. You can clearly see the guys who are actually out there doing it and passionate about it, posting feedback, data, videos the most and clearly supportive of manual not all opposed to PDK being in the car.

It's the "I wanna look like I' going fast but I'm not going to" cars and coffee crowd, likened to the vast majority of Corvette and Viper guys who like to bench race, but never see the track that are pining for PDK.

Originally Posted by Bob Rouleau

Wanna - have you ever driver a sequential? I have. Nice on a track but impossible on the street. All of the Cup Car guys with sequential gearboxes will agree.

I had a 430 with F1 for a couple years, have you driven one? The F1 tranny is in all ways inferior to the PDK and fragile on top of that. Maybe that's why Ferrari switched to a PDK type transmission in the newer cars.

If you don't like PDK, that's fine but why don't you leave it at that.