Maxem

With all this early car talk, here is A little bit of encouragement for you fella's to get a project going.
I just realised Pel that your SC has carbs. Looking forward to seeing how it goes.
No plans yet of course but I can see the T one day with something exotic feeding the engine.

O2GO

Page 1992. So who's got a 1992 Porsche they can post a picture of. Might have to be a 964

Maxem

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kiwi 911

To take a standard 997 and turn into Steve's car would cost you over $100k, $60-70k for the donor and $40K for the cage, PSS10 suspension, chip, exhaust, harness, racing seats, RSS suspension bits, 997 Turbo brakes, racing pads, engine mounts, bigger rims, deep sump and dozens of other things you can't see, not listed or know about.

Knowing Steve, he purchased the car because he could see all the development costs in converting into a Targa race car being sold for free.

Calling Steve's car stock is like calling Sean's 964 RS Tribute stock........

To repeat it is $100K+ (or a GT3).........

kiwi 911

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/spec...-958834448.htm

Just buy this and do 10's..........

kiwi 911

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/spec...-961440713.htm

Or buy this and throw away after the Festival??

Macca - we should go halves, share the enduro drive and call it an adventure?

Given it's not valuable, you could lean on people through corners and become very wide to pass, a bit like a 2K Cup honda with a loose exhaust??

Edit - on re-reading it only has a half cage??

peterC2S

I had one...

peterC2S

That's not a silly idea.... How would you rate it against Dave M's? Or is that finally sold?

Still make a hell of a fun/cheap track car for very little investment. Looks well looked after as well.

kiwi 911

Pete,

Dave's sold about 3 months ago and has funded (some) of his new 997.2 GT3 - going to be quite top heavy this year??

What would a full cage cost for the 44?

peterC2S

No idea sorry - the guys with the 2kcup cars may know?

Haven't looked at race cars for a while but see Brian McGovern's 944T is for sale - looks a beast and you could dial in the right power for any class. Too easy?

Macca

Actually I was trying to compare the likes of what Pel just bought and the blue car (i.e. already have been competed in and prepared) to the 997 Steve bought for 50K which was on TM I believe and was prepared as a Targa car when it was sold. I suggested 10K had been spent on it since so in effect its a 60K car. I definitely wasnt advocating making a 50K road car into such a vehicle as it would cost too much.

I think the key as Pel and others have already cottoned on to is buy a car with some level of race/track preparation first (doesnt matter if its a LHD turned RHD) and then just do some final fettle and take it to the track for under 35K. This way you can have your fun and if its hits the wall and is mortally wounded...well its not such a financial hit really is it (compared to Cyclones, and other natural disasters anywhay LOL!).

kiwi 911

Ahhhhh................. OK

So how's life at home?

Did the cat miss you??

Macca

Apologies if that sounded terse...

kiwi 911

No worries mate - hugs from Baba :-)

Macca

Peter your 993 on TM looks stella mate! Good luck with the sale and fill us in on whats next when you can...