718 GT4?
01-02-2019, 12:25 PM
#4726
Press event????? That means almost sure after that PAG will post the news on their website
01-02-2019, 12:34 PM
#4727
Teams take delivery of the cars tomorrow following the press event but the cool part is that they will go directly from the event to the garage. The Roar Before the 24 starts tomorrow & we go on track with the cars Friday morning. The fact that Porsche produces a car that can be race ready in 1 day's time is rather cool when you consider that for 15 years teams spent 200 hours during Oct - Jan building cars from scratch that started life as street cars. The year we built 2 Cayman race cars for another team, we missed Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and the cars were being finished literally the night before we loaded them in at the speedway.
01-02-2019, 12:49 PM
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TCS, many of us appreciate your patience in delivering informed responses to LordLucan. He is just trolling the board and enjoys being an instigator.
I guess every forum has to have at least one of them. lol 8-)
You can believe several highly informed, racing and development teams who are all stating that the the street GT4 is going to have the same engine.. or you can believe some guy out of, more or less nowhere, trolling the forum.. just to be an antagonist... Your choice...
I strongly believe, having followed pretty much every post on this thread, that the engine will be the same.. and many of the other specs... so Jan 3rd should be a revealing day for what the street car is going to get... it will tell us a lot.
I wouldn't let anyone convince you otherwise.
I guess every forum has to have at least one of them. lol 8-)
You can believe several highly informed, racing and development teams who are all stating that the the street GT4 is going to have the same engine.. or you can believe some guy out of, more or less nowhere, trolling the forum.. just to be an antagonist... Your choice...
I strongly believe, having followed pretty much every post on this thread, that the engine will be the same.. and many of the other specs... so Jan 3rd should be a revealing day for what the street car is going to get... it will tell us a lot.
I wouldn't let anyone convince you otherwise.
01-02-2019, 01:11 PM
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What time is the event?
01-02-2019, 01:17 PM
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I believe what's written in black and white in the SRO regs, freely available for anyone to read on the SRO website. I don't believe in alleged rules that apparently aren't written down anywhere! If the race car had to have the same engine as the road car, it would be written down in the regulations governing the sport.
01-02-2019, 01:20 PM
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01-02-2019, 01:49 PM
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01-02-2019, 02:21 PM
#4735
At the risk of throwing this thread of course...yet again....PAG homologated the CS based on the GT4 street car...homologation can last up to 5 years but you can introduce a new model if you go again through the homologation process, which is the case right now with the new 718.
And as TCSRACING1 mentions in order to change anything during the time that a homologation is being used you would need the authorization from SRO which is very unlikely for the GT4
There are a few interesting notes on that Sportcar 365 I posted above mentioning how the GT4 CS was used as the basis for the whole GT4 class and the number of cars manufactured......didn't know PAG manufactured so many CS, really amazing!
BTW...if something is not written on the rules its not allowed.
01-02-2019, 02:41 PM
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At the risk of throwing this thread of course...yet again....PAG homologated the CS based on the GT4 street car...homologation can last up to 5 years but you can introduce a new model if you go again through the homologation process, which is the case right now with the new 718.
And as TCSRACING1 mentions in order to change anything during the time that a homologation is being used you would need the authorization from SRO which is very unlikely for the GT4
There are a few interesting notes on that Sportcar 365 I posted above mentioning how the GT4 CS was used as the basis for the whole GT4 class and the number of cars manufactured......didn't know PAG manufactured so many CS, really amazing!
BTW...if something is not written on the rules its not allowed.
And as TCSRACING1 mentions in order to change anything during the time that a homologation is being used you would need the authorization from SRO which is very unlikely for the GT4
There are a few interesting notes on that Sportcar 365 I posted above mentioning how the GT4 CS was used as the basis for the whole GT4 class and the number of cars manufactured......didn't know PAG manufactured so many CS, really amazing!
BTW...if something is not written on the rules its not allowed.
01-02-2019, 03:07 PM
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01-02-2019, 04:37 PM
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Oh yeah, I get all the actual reasons for it. My question was for LordLucan to explain why Porsche used the same 385 hp engine from the street car, when according to him there are no written rules stating they have to. So they decided to put in a lower hp detuned 911 engine because...racecar?
