996 Cup Maintenance costs..
09-24-2007, 08:43 PM
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What is the deal with the tires? Seems like there's almost always a couple of posts every year about someone unable to find tires for their cup cars. What are the choices, where do you buy them and how hard are they to get?
09-24-2007, 09:45 PM
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So is getting a GT3 street car, and making track mods to it a more appropriate way to go for the weekend track junkie/non racer? Suspension, moderate lightening, safety equipment, etc. run on "R" tires instead of slicks? Wouldn't the intial costs be about the same as a cup car, and the weekly running costs less? I'd love a cup car also, but the running costs described in this thread are pretty scary.
09-24-2007, 10:14 PM
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So is getting a GT3 street car, and making track mods to it a more appropriate way to go for the weekend track junkie/non racer?
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I would say yes, if you aren’t racing, cup car may be overkill. You will pass most cars by a large margin, so not as fun.
Suspension, moderate lightening, safety equipment, etc. run on "R" tires instead of slicks?
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You don’t have to do suspension right off the bat. I have seen totally stock GT3 being driven by very very capable drivers with fast lap time.
Wouldn't the intial costs be about the same as a cup car, and the weekly running costs less? I'd love a cup car also, but the running costs described in this thread are pretty scary.
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I can’t speak of cup car running cost. I have driven them but never owned one. But GT3 both 996 and 997 running cost is no more than a non GT3 996/997. I have owned/own 996c2, c4s, 996gt3 and 997gt3 and I know the cost of running them from exp.
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I would say yes, if you aren’t racing, cup car may be overkill. You will pass most cars by a large margin, so not as fun.
Suspension, moderate lightening, safety equipment, etc. run on "R" tires instead of slicks?
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You don’t have to do suspension right off the bat. I have seen totally stock GT3 being driven by very very capable drivers with fast lap time.
Wouldn't the intial costs be about the same as a cup car, and the weekly running costs less? I'd love a cup car also, but the running costs described in this thread are pretty scary.
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I can’t speak of cup car running cost. I have driven them but never owned one. But GT3 both 996 and 997 running cost is no more than a non GT3 996/997. I have owned/own 996c2, c4s, 996gt3 and 997gt3 and I know the cost of running them from exp.
09-25-2007, 02:45 PM
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Three Wheelin'
sorry, I rechecked it and the the yoko's are $400 a set more expensive than the R6. The yokos are the same price as the MPSC.
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10-15-2007, 08:52 AM
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So is getting a GT3 street car, and making track mods to it a more appropriate way to go for the weekend track junkie/non racer? Suspension, moderate lightening, safety equipment, etc. run on "R" tires instead of slicks? Wouldn't the intial costs be about the same as a cup car, and the weekly running costs less? I'd love a cup car also, but the running costs described in this thread are pretty scary.
If you are going to drive the car hard, a street GT3 will be very expensive to keep running and will depreciate greatly in value. Also you will find yourself continually modifying it to make it more like the GT3 Cup. So you will fit a cage and race seats and harnesses, upgrade brakes and suspension, race LSD, Cup gearbox internals, data logging, fire supression system, tow hooks, electrical cut offs..... the list goes on.
Just buy a Cup car, all you have to do is keep it running. Poeople worry about the costs of running a Cup car. Those costs have little to do with it being a Cup car and a lot to do with it being driven hard. If you drive your street GT3 as hard as Cup cars are driven, and that will mean using slicks, your costs will not be much different. Except with the Cup car you will have fewer unexpected failures, you will be spending at scheduled services rather than piecemeal through the season.
A big difference will come when you sell the cars, a track day beater loses value fast, it is rare that all the expensive extras you have put on the car return any value. A race car holds its value better, as long as it has been maintained.
If you are going to do a few DEs per year and not try to set any records, are happy with stock tyres, then a street GT3 will be fine, but don't do anything to it.
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10-17-2007, 05:46 PM
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