Any Rennlisters from New Zealand?
09-01-2014, 10:44 PM
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I'm liking these pics' too. This is what the car would look like minus the fugly rubber tail. I prefer the brown/black combo over brown/gold.......
09-01-2014, 10:48 PM
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What you say makes sense, but since when has common sense got anything to do with it.
I should sell the 993 and go buy a Gen I 997 GT3, this probably makes the most sense, but where is the fun in that?
09-01-2014, 11:20 PM
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"One 911 to rule them all, One 911 to find them,
One 911 to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,
In the Land of Miller where the Shadows lie...."
09-01-2014, 11:36 PM
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Unique colours make it more individual
09-01-2014, 11:37 PM
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This is like sitting in the car in the kitty litter waiting for the other drivers to start joining you. It has an inevitability about it.
09-01-2014, 11:48 PM
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Once you get it out of your system the fun in owning a (for example) $140K 997.1 GT3RS is in the driving. This is where Ive moved to - helped largely by a lack of time in NZ and space and the personal desire to have a less cluttered life. I often think Ron & Pasty have it right in this regard. They are the most moneyed in our group yet they dont bother with collecting relics for collecting sake, they buy a machine and they use it. They spend all their car time/money actually doing events and squeezing every ounce out of their cars. Sure they may buy them new but they have un interrupted low headache smiles for 6 years and sell them (well) used. The affliction of collecting and garage queening affects the poor enthusiast and the super wealthy only. The sweet spot is likely in between.
For a guy like you (busy with business, young family etc) I cant help but think an old IB that needs constant attention and a freshly minted/painted 993 is the recipe for a life of bills an angst. You love driving these cars more than you love cleaning them and you love looking at them in the garage second only to driving them. You have an itch to scratch so go scratch it I reckon but at some point dont deny yourself the car Porsche built especially for guys like you - something reliable, track proven and gorgeous - a single machine you can jump into for a spirited Sunday Ron drive, a weekend at the track without headache and which some young fella will get a hard on over at the Porsche annual Xmas function in the park...
P.S. No offence was meant in telling it to you straight buddy :-)
09-01-2014, 11:49 PM
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My old C3 doesn't have the orginal engine (has SC engine now).
Craig has my old C3 looking very sharp these days...............
This car has lower miles and original engine and gear box.
Thinking of doing a Dave-mobile - changing the colour and making it my dream 911 in lime green or mexico blue.........It will owe me a hundie, but will do all the things I want a Pcar to do.............
I look forward to seeing Dave's car, as I think the personalised Sunday driver R Gruppe car is something I need to tick off the bucket list.
Craig has my old C3 looking very sharp these days...............
This car has lower miles and original engine and gear box.
Thinking of doing a Dave-mobile - changing the colour and making it my dream 911 in lime green or mexico blue.........It will owe me a hundie, but will do all the things I want a Pcar to do.............
I look forward to seeing Dave's car, as I think the personalised Sunday driver R Gruppe car is something I need to tick off the bucket list.
09-01-2014, 11:51 PM
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Phil, I just thought that there are a few RSG members who don't hang out on this forum who probably don't know about the 7th. Like Ron and Patsy, Nigel et al. Do you want to open it to them or keep it to the RL hard core? Pete can fire emails to the whole group. Over to you tho.
09-02-2014, 12:43 AM
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good news!
1 set of brake pads has arrived today.
I'll bring them + the brake fluid on the 7th.
John, Doug whats your plan regarding the rear pads?
Do you want to change the special Jono race fluid for new TRD?
1 set of brake pads has arrived today.
I'll bring them + the brake fluid on the 7th.
John, Doug whats your plan regarding the rear pads?
Do you want to change the special Jono race fluid for new TRD?
09-02-2014, 12:46 AM
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Ralf, I'll go to Repco and buy some rear pads. We also need some new wipers. I'll see what she brakes like with new pads. If a bit squishy I'll bleed them. Not sure if I will completely flush the system. Great they arrived anyway. See you Sunday.
09-02-2014, 01:42 AM
BB - everybody combined theoretical best lap down to 1:24.289
Looks like there's still a fair bit of room yet for all of us to get faster in her.
Hey Matt, turns out I kind of met that goal, but only in a similarly theoretical way. The leaderboard rules, but here's some similar bench racing.
Finally found a download cable for Tony's AIM and pulled my Saturday runs into RaceStudio 2 (left the files on there for Tony to do his own later) and found the theoretical best for just mine was a 1:25.171.
That was after deleting all my 'first laps' and other garbage which had a couple of weird artefacts (gave a 1.13.668 theoretical LOL) then checking that the remaining fastest splits married up OK with the next fastest. Also checked the split before and after each of the fastest ones was a decent time, to make sure I didn't accidentally include any banzai runs into corners at the cost of exit speeds for instance.
Finally found a download cable for Tony's AIM and pulled my Saturday runs into RaceStudio 2 (left the files on there for Tony to do his own later) and found the theoretical best for just mine was a 1:25.171.
That was after deleting all my 'first laps' and other garbage which had a couple of weird artefacts (gave a 1.13.668 theoretical LOL) then checking that the remaining fastest splits married up OK with the next fastest. Also checked the split before and after each of the fastest ones was a decent time, to make sure I didn't accidentally include any banzai runs into corners at the cost of exit speeds for instance.
09-02-2014, 01:46 AM
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Just recalculated Black Beauty's theoretical best lap combining everyone's runs to the end of August (except a few of Matt's runs maybe - I used the combined run files John supplied but they didn't have Matt's best time so I think he used his own AIM). Same weeding out of any suspect splits as before (see below). It now gives a combined theoretical best of 1:24.289. Looks like there's still a fair bit of room yet for all of us to get faster in her.
09-02-2014, 02:14 AM
09-02-2014, 02:20 AM
Doug
Given I am hardly hard core, if you/Pete/others feel another 6-8 people deserve 2 hours of Porsche TV **** and endless Porsche Prattle. . then by all means invite them
I find around 30 pax is comfy otherwise we start tripping over without alcoholic impetus and we are at 22..especially if the weather is a bit naff!
Given I am hardly hard core, if you/Pete/others feel another 6-8 people deserve 2 hours of Porsche TV **** and endless Porsche Prattle. . then by all means invite them
I find around 30 pax is comfy otherwise we start tripping over without alcoholic impetus and we are at 22..especially if the weather is a bit naff!