718 GT4?
Three Wheelin'
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yea.. and while i have zero insider knowledge this go-around (my cleaning lady flipped, married a chick, i no longer have leverage).. that sounds like a woofly four cylinder.. it sounds like a 718 sounds. having owned a 981 Spyder, it just didn't sound like that staccato sound at all.. it was a smooth hum, sport exhaust pressed or not..
that and the info with the gt3 production and RS production ending before 2018 is over leads me to believe there may not be a gt3 engine in there. I hope I'm wrong for sure..
but who knows right?
that and the info with the gt3 production and RS production ending before 2018 is over leads me to believe there may not be a gt3 engine in there. I hope I'm wrong for sure..
but who knows right?
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Homologation?
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Quoted for truth. Auto pricing is only a function of cost in certain cases, usually low-end price-leader cars. Otherwise, pricing is almost always chosen by deciding how much can be charged and still hit the target sales figure, and then make sure the car can be built cheaply enough that there is a sufficient spread between that sale price and what it costs to build (all in.). If the delta between those two is ginormous (like with $70,000 luxury F250 pickups, for instance) then that's just icing on the cake (and is often used to offset the loss-leader Chevy Sparks at the low-end.)
I bet the actual cost delta to build a GT3 motor over a 9A1 is so little it's a rounding error on the total price of the car. The important thing, though, is to protect at all costs that $50,000 delta in sales price between the GT4 and the GT3 (think F250 King Ranch vs. Fiesta.
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I bet the actual cost delta to build a GT3 motor over a 9A1 is so little it's a rounding error on the total price of the car. The important thing, though, is to protect at all costs that $50,000 delta in sales price between the GT4 and the GT3 (think F250 King Ranch vs. Fiesta.
)Last edited by 4nroots; Apr 16, 2018 at 09:13 PM.
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1) Was the exhaust button pressed?
2) Was the driver even interested in exhaust sound?
3) Was the car in high enough revs for the exhaust valves to auto open?
Just being and driving on the Autobahn means nothing regardless of the few on here that seem to think that everybody knows what the public wants and therefore will accommodate.
2) Was the driver even interested in exhaust sound?
3) Was the car in high enough revs for the exhaust valves to auto open?
Just being and driving on the Autobahn means nothing regardless of the few on here that seem to think that everybody knows what the public wants and therefore will accommodate.
If you read my post (and previous ones) I can't come to a conclusion of what engine it's without more info....guess we will have to wait for PAG to spill the beans or a brave soul to jump under one of these cars to take a pic!
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Ok, to add to all of the rumors flying around, I just spoke with a dealer today and was told that they were told that there will be two unveilings at the Rennsport reunion in September. No indication or hints on which cars will be unveiled...
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Being a 4.0L, people will reference to it as GT3 motor, but realistically it will only be the block in common. No GT3 intake and no GT3 sump.
This is my guess.
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my guess is that we see the existing 3.8L motor bumped up to 4.0L and with revised heads, cams and throttle body. improved Intake might be greedy. All simple stuff however.
Being a 4.0L, people will reference to it as GT3 motor, but realistically it will only be the block in common. No GT3 intake and no GT3 sump.
This is my guess.
Being a 4.0L, people will reference to it as GT3 motor, but realistically it will only be the block in common. No GT3 intake and no GT3 sump.
This is my guess.
Three Wheelin'
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my guess is that we see the existing 3.8L motor bumped up to 4.0L and with revised heads, cams and throttle body. improved Intake might be greedy. All simple stuff however.
Being a 4.0L, people will reference to it as GT3 motor, but realistically it will only be the block in common. No GT3 intake and no GT3 sump.
This is my guess.
Being a 4.0L, people will reference to it as GT3 motor, but realistically it will only be the block in common. No GT3 intake and no GT3 sump.
This is my guess.
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Im starting to think they will use two motors. The spy video in traffic of the Spyder is absolutely turbo. Photographer at the ring claims "it sounds more and more like a 4 cylinder" for the Spyder and the above gauge shows a 7k rpm rev limiter... Then GT naturally aspirated as some are claiming (I hope).
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Im starting to think they will use two motors. The spy video in traffic of the Spyder is absolutely turbo. Photographer at the ring claims "it sounds more and more like a 4 cylinder" for the Spyder and the above gauge shows a 7k rpm rev limiter... Then GT naturally aspirated as some are claiming (I hope).
never said 4 cylinder.
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I bet there is some app that would tell you from an audio file whether it's a 4cyl or 6cyl based on periodic tones. There's also an app that tells you how fast your radio controlled plane is going, based on the Doppler shift of the motor sound as the plane flies by (~180mph for my latest one)...
and https://www.porscheclubgb.com/forum/FindPost/994753
may be of interest