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Pulled the trigger on a GT4 finally. Found a Rennlist member selling one in the spec I've been looking for in Dallas. I live in Buffalo, NY, so naturally, I just flew down and drove it 1,375 miles home, because that's the most rational thing to do when buying a sports car probably. I'm happy to participate in actually driving the drivers' car instead of trying to be a speculator
It's rare to find a car that is as comfortable and refined as something in the vein of the last 458 I spent track time in, but with the nimble turn in and adjustable nature of my prior Lotus Exige. First P car, and I think this is a good one.
Attached are some pictures of the adventure. Managed 35 hours round trip including the flight down as I've got a seven month old at home and any longer, the wife would've murdered me. It was also the great midwestern bug massacre of 2019, so I'm glad the car has a clear bra on it .
It's in the detail shop getting clear film on the doors, rockers and fenders, so I can use it for some open lapping and autocross without thrashing the paint, plus a finishing top coat of some ceramic to keep the clear stuff and remainder paint clean. Next stop, our P car garage in Rochester, NY for the alignment and a Fabspeed catback. I'll probably be moving over to some RE71R also. The MPSC2 are fine, but I've loved the Bridgestones on all of my other vehicles.
beautiful! congrats on picking it up. wonderful spec, love all the interior yellow contrast stitching / pull handles etc.
Thank you! Agreed. I came over from a Krypton Green car so this is somehow more tame, even in the color, but Porsche really does a quality job assembling their interiors. Except for where I didn't realize the buckets were height adjustable until I got home due to the largely unlabeled black button ambiguously on the front-ish of the seat. That would've been nice 1300 miles ago.
Did I not see a cross-post on a for sale forum saying you had bought a listed car that is guards red? That car looks yellow. I'm somewhat color impaired but not that bad.
Did I not see a cross-post on a for sale forum saying you had bought a listed car that is guards red? That car looks yellow. I'm somewhat color impaired but not that bad.
I was looking at a guards red 991.1 GT3 and potentially a GT4, but both were with dealers and overpriced IMO. Ended up going this route.
I got confused within the same thread, so sorry about that. Raidersfan was talking about his car (yours) in the same thread as a guards red GT4.
Makes sense! That Guards Red GT4 looks great and IMO is priced appropriately. The others were 2x+ mileage with worse options for several thousand more bucks, haha.
Good choice on the RE71Rs....forget the catback, go for the headers!
it's a CPO car and I'd like to keep that happy for the time it has left, plus I will be doing some SCCA auto-x in it and the headers put it into the R comp laden classes. SCCA rulebook is stupid, but I figure I'll try it out as suggested until the CPO is up and decide if the headers and tune are the way to go then!
it's a CPO car and I'd like to keep that happy for the time it has left, plus I will be doing some SCCA auto-x in it and the headers put it into the R comp laden classes. SCCA rulebook is stupid, but I figure I'll try it out as suggested until the CPO is up and decide if the headers and tune are the way to go then!
Ok....you need to stay within the rules.
But don't worry about the engine, the 9A1 is pretty much bulletproof and in case of the worst just swap back the OEM parts. If you can go for a catback and can live with a bit more volume on the exhaust check out the GT3 muffler conversions.
05-21-2019, 01:44 PM
New GT4 Owner
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