Q&A Porsche discussion

[DJF1]

For the majority of the owners and the track day crowd PASM if absolutely fine. If you want to race, its another story but then again if you had the money for a street GT3 you should buy a Cup car instead of converting a street car.

[nthfinity]

^^^
a cup car isnt titled, right?

[1zippo1]

I was wondering something. I know the 996Turbo and 997Turbo are all wheel drive. But I suppose not every 911 Turbo was AWD, was it? My guess is that the 930 (the first turbo right?) and the 964 were not AWD, but was the 993?


PS: I did a search for AWD but I didn't encouter anything in this topic so I hope this question isn't a repost.

[dingo]

The 993 Turbo was AWD, but the 930 and 964 were both only RWD.

[Pipelion]

Hi folks,

I'm new here, this is one massive website wow.

Some day I'd like to own a Carrera GT. I just found an article saying Porsche had estimated the C GTs clutch lasting 187,000 miles, yes. So what's with the Texas Gt inso kindly posted losing it's clutch so early. That's not all, two weeks ago a yellow GT sold on ebay with 5000 miles and it's clutch had been replaced. I've read all I could on the GT and many say the clutch starting problem was OVER STATED, but that doesn't explain these others losing theirs.

Is this clutch under desiged? To fagile?

Does anyone here know the real story. Please let me know if your posts are guesses or fact. It's great to hear opinions but I want to find out whats going on here. :shock:

Appreciate imput,

Allan

[nthfinity]

not to be mean... st-anger likes questions like this in the porsche Q+A section... just keeps porsche central a wee bit cleaner; and easier to browse +learn.

that said
i would think its tempting to drump the clutch in a sportscar, supercar, or hypercar like the CGT... and letting the clutch engage from high rpm like 8000 cant be good for any clutch, even a uber strong super small carbon clutch...

under normal usage, my guess is the CGT clutch would outlast the 187,000 mile (300,000 km) distance... but who wants to drive like the old lady in the 5 speed civic?

that said... porsche expects thier costomers to take thier cars to tracks... and while things like pads and roters may be used in a single outting... you have Endurance winning technology all over the CGT, as well as other P cars...

under testing @ NS... i know they did quite a few miles there and its said that every 1 mile there, is like 20 miles in the real world worth of wear and tear... and i think that WR tested one CGT somewhere about 30,000 km... but i dont know what kind of parts needed to be replaced besides tires/pads/rotors/fluids.

mostly, i would expect such a clutch to fail from repeted hard launches, and overextending launch attempts...

[T-Bird]

well I've heard of 2 CGT's getting clutches already from our neighbors next door (Porsche Exchange)

[black_magician]

if you want to see some pics of it, there is a clutch job install posted here.

http://members.cox.net/alang1/carrera_gt/index.htm

[RC45]

They should just install a Turbo 400 and call it a day hehe

[1zippo1]

This is just a remark I had when I was looking at the specs from the new GT3. They say it's EC weight is 1470kg. It struck me that that wasn't really so light, so I looked at the EC weight of the standard Carrera 3.6 and it's exactly the same.

Ok I image the GT3 has got some extra weight because of bigger brakes and stuff like that but isn't it supposed to be a stripped out lightweigt version?

One more thing, you can download the GT3 video from the site!! Which is excellent but the 911 turbo flash video is also very nice but you can't download that... or can you?

[Wutputt]

I've a question about the 993 GT2. If I'm well informed 57 GT2's were produced (Club Sport versions included). But also 25 GT2 Evolution models were built with some extra 20 bhp. My question: is there any visual difference between a regular or Club Sport GT2 and a GT2 Evolution?

[dingo]

As far as I know only 21 Evolutions were created....not 100% sure on that though.

They had an adjustable rear spoiler (with an elevated wing section) and fastening pins on the front lid/boot. They also featured an FIA roll cage, Recaro racing seat/six-point harness, and fire-extinguisher.

Again this info was probably found on the net at some stage so I can't confirm its accuracy.

[Wutputt]

Do you perhaps have a pic of an evolution?

[Wutputt]

Thanks!

[DI48LO]

Hi everyone.
Does anyone know what type of rims are these? I couldn't find them on the TechArt site. THX.



BTW this car was wrecked a week ago. Why do unthoughtful people buy rare cars like this? :x