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i've found that my GT3 "weekend car" is actually getting about the same or even more miles put on it per week than my RS4 "daily driver"!
guess it does't help that my commute is less than 10miles roundtrip and my typical weekend drive is closer to 120miles. have put about 2400miles on the car since when i got it in late March and car is rapidly approaching 30k miles at which point i guess i'll have to sell it for scrap...
Juan -- 6000 miles since March is impressive! that drive you did looked like a great time too.
r6elmo -- i don't really live at the Mystery House, but if you're near there it would be easy to meet up. good luck with the remodel work. i need to get my bathroom floor sorted out thanks to a water leak...
I have the same problem. Picked up my rs a little over 2 years ago with 26k. It's at 41k now. Yeah, I drive it. As much as I can. A few k of those are track miles and more than a few k boring drive to track miles. Those are near 0 now that I've a trailer.
My 2007 gt3 will be officially sold this week at <24000 miles so problem solved. Bought it at 10,500 miles 3 years ago.
Now have 4700 miles on my 991gt3 and 7 track days. Now my left calf can return to normal size.
Same problem. 28K miles this week. Bought it with 2K. 1000 miles in last 2 weeks with friends both on track and on some of the same roads (including 1 down to Big Sur).
Nice loop! Come on up north of "the bridge" and we'll show ya some real GT3 roads!
i grew up in the North Bay and parents and sister are still up that way. have been contemplating a route that takes me out Sir Francis Drake towards the coast, head north some more and cut over towards Petaluma or Santa Rosa. just not sure which specific roads to hit up in the Marin area...
usually when i go to Santa Rosa i'll jump off 101 at Petaluma and go into Santa Rosa via Crane Canyon to Grange Rd to Bennett Valley Rd.
the GT3 is super fun to drive, but i definitely have a lot to learn when it comes to pushing this car (i've only done 2400 miles total in it). all of my past cars that had any performance factor were AWD (B5 S4, Evo 8 MR, B7 RS4), so jumping to RWD, and a GT3 at that, has been a pretty huge change.
the Evo 8 is still one of my favorite cars and got very comfortable pushing that car hard and not feeling too worried when it would start sliding. no where close to that in the GT3...yet.
plan to do something like Hooked On Driving or the Porsche Driving Experience at some point to get up the learning curve a bit quicker (and safely).
My GT3 just arrived in Cupertino at work yesterday and I can't wait to go on that drive of the South Bay : )
congrats on tracking down a GT3!!! having it dropped off at work is pretty gutsy! i met the guy from Inter City a few blocks from my house when mine got shipped out here.
yea, i like that 17 to 1 to Skyline to 9 route, though so do a lot of other people (cyclists, motorcycles, other cars), so you need a bit of luck to not get stuck behind slow traffic at some point. and since people don't seem to understand how to use the turn outs, i've found it's better to just pull over at certain points along that loop to build up some free space.
continuing North on Skyline to 92 and cutting down to Half Moon Bay is good too. oh! and the new tunnel on 1 by Pacifica is a fun place to make some noise. though think you need to be alert for police around there.
the road up to Lick Observatory has some nice stretches, but also some really twisty bits that almost had me feeling car sick. i've yet to go all the way up past the observatory to Mines Rd and then over to Livermore, but will try that at some point.
07-07-2015, 07:01 PM
GT3 problem...
