PORSCHE Lovers

[Gast]

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[psycho dad]

die witte GT3 RS van hierboven

gimme gimme

[Denniske]

[Denniske]

Deze was ook wel knap met rode striping

[Gast]

Geschifte foto Dennis

[Gast]

+ YouTube Video

[Gast]

http://pistonheads.com/sales/1210401.htm



Zucht....

Uber vette kar !!!

Maar hij mag zijn detailer wel eens serieus onder zijn voeten geven !!
Zie al die polish of wax zitten man ! En dan nog een close up van trekken

[Porker]

Stukje van een GT3 mk.II eigenaar

What started out as a typically British, wet, autumn day very quickly evolved into another gorgeous, warm sunny event. I was actually quite looking forward to rain as Snetterton is a great, fun circuit when playing around on the limits of traction. I also wanted to ensure I didn’t eat through tyres and brakes. Worried about being on standard discs, I didn’t want to chew through a set on my first trackday.

Regardless, it wasn’t long before a dry line appeared on track and as traffic increased, so did traction, allowing me to further push the GT3 into the farthest reaches of our universe. I’m near on 500 miles with the new GT3, but I can really start to feel the increase in power - not as an absolute, but the minor changes to the map making an overall improvement throughout the whole rev-range. With an unnamed friend in his Nissan GTR (warranty blah blah) acting as reference, I was quite expecting to be left behind, only making time up on the straights. But it didn’t quite pan out that way with a frentic number of sessions consisting of nose to tail action, cementing the fact that the new 3.8 is more than a match for the massively fast GTR.

A forever changing cat and mouse game, the GTR would make progress on the two straights of Snetterton, but the light weight nature of the GT3 made a killing under hard braking and sharp turns. Again the Nissan would take large chunks out of the GT3 from some of the very tight chicane exits, where its four wheel drive would aid exit traction when I’d be crossing my arms trying to keep the car straight (which has been immense fun!).

Where are the improvements? Well, the overall speed of the car is a minor, but noticable difference. There’s also a better connection between steering wheel and front wheels under hard acceleration and turn. I always used to notice a lack of gravity up front as though the steering was searching for some feedback, in vain. That appears to be remedied with some real proper feedback, including less understeer and better communication. But the most significant improvement has to be in its aerodynamics. Hard braking in the Gen1 used to be hugely amusing with sweepstakes trying to determine the direction the car would take - quite often at the point where your braking pressure is at the maximum point before the ABS cuts in. I remember quite clearly in the Gen1 at the huge long straight at Snetterton (Revett straight) you’d be coming down from 140MPH really hard on the brakes, perhaps harder than any other circuit - and the car would jitter and swerve all over. The deep front dam and the exagerated spoiler seem to have given the car impressive road holding that has ultimately aided its on-limit stability.

So, not a huge amount of differences. I have to ask my dealer if I actually got my dynamic engine mounts, because frankly I can’t feel any difference and I’d be mighty pissed off if I’d been sold a marketing gimmick that had no functional value. It’s still a ridiculous car and there really is nothing like it. It’s supremely quick now for a 3.8 normally aspirated car and still retains that unique nibleness and litheness that makes it the envy of cars with twice its horsepower.

Just a word, meanwhile, to the people on trackdays who seem to think it’s OK to piss fuel/oil all over the circuit and remain on the racing line while plumes of smoke destroy your chances of credibility. I know sometimes ‘things’ happen that are outside of your control, but please for the love of god use some common sense.

Whirlwind romance ends
By BlowDog ⋅ November 4, 2009 ⋅ Email This Post Email This Post ⋅ Print This Post Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment
Filed Under 997, GT3, Porsche

And what a whirlwind romance. This is a record for me, having owned the car for only 3 weeks to suddenly, I genuinely had no intention of selling the car on, but I happened to be in the right place at the wrong time.

After my trackday at Snetterton, my brakes developed an unpleasant noise and vibration. An appointment was made to Porsche Reading to rectify said problem, although my fears were cemented by then - it was obvious the steel brakes were simply not up to the task. A huge disappointment, given how Andreas Preuninger waxed lyrical about them at the launch. Frankly, they’re a huge disappointment and I decided at that point to never spec steel discs on a GT3 again (more on that later!).

Regardless, I was told by Porsche, after countless photos and videos sent to Porsche Germany, that the brakes had been subjected to abuse and would not be covered by neither goodwill nor warranty. I came away perplexed, if there’s one thing I do not do, that’s abuse my cars. I know better than many the cooling cycles necessary for discs during trackday use. So I came home and after some careful consideration, decided to put the car up for sale. I figured winter was coming, it wasn’t going to get any good use and I had the RS coming in March (more on that later!!).

Within a day of putting the car up for sale, Porsche called me and offered to buy the car there and then. Deal done and sold. The car was already at Porsche Reading having the brakes investigated, so it was simply a case of coming to my house to collect the V5 documents. However, after having committed to the sale of the car, I shortly got told that due to dealer process restructuring, I also wouldn’t be getting the GT3RS!

The temptation to cancel my sale on the eve of the buyer turning up was immense and took a number of phonecalls to trusted colleagues to sway me from one side to another. In the end, it took a sensible approach and I let the car go. It’s a MASSIVE shame and I’m more upset about this epic trackday booked for this Sunday at Silverstone. It’s practically a who’s who of trackdays. Still, I’ve just bought something else for the weekend….

As for the RS, I’m going to have to hunt one down in the new year come spring time. I’ve heard there are very limited numbers planned with only about 40 cars due to the UK. This is going to make it very difficult to source one without a premium, but I’ll keep looking.

And my Guards Red GT3? Well, given that it was only in my hands for a few weeks, it’s difficult to really justify the £30k premium over the Gen1 GT3, which, let’s face it, is a stupendously good car. Really, it’s utterly magnificent. And the Gen2? Well, it’s faster, that much is certain - the fact that it can now keep up with a Nissan GT-R on full chat says a lot. It’s also very good looking with significant improvements to it’s overall aesthetic - that rear spoiler is truly epic. It’s also updated with mod-cons such as touch screen sat nav, ipod connector etc.

I’ll miss this car for sure, I didn’t get to really bond with it - I guess I’ll leave that for the RS.

[Gast]

Stukje van een GT3 mk.II eigenaar

... With an unnamed friend in his Nissan GTR (warranty blah blah) ...

Moet ik nu mijn video's van NAS on track ook offline halen ???

[Gast]

Wel grappig hoe ze de rollen hebben omgedraaid en ze nu de Porsche GT3 gaan vergelijken met een GTR "he can even keep up with ...". Nog niet zolang geleden was het omgekeerd

[Greg]

+ YouTube Video

Specs?

Wel grappig hoe ze de rollen hebben omgedraaid en ze nu de Porsche GT3 gaan vergelijken met een GTR "he can even keep up with ...". Nog niet zolang geleden was het omgekeerd

So true

[Gast]

Specs?

Weet ik helaas niet :o

[Gast]

Stukje van een GT3 mk.II eigenaar

Amai, 3 weken GT3 en 'm weer verkopen...

Bizar is wel dat de schijven na 1 trackday om zeep zijn !!

[VRX]

Weet ik helaas niet :o

Das toch die kameraad van Arie (Ferrari) ? Zijn kameraden van mensen hier opt forum, ben zeker dat iemand er wel meer van weet

[Gast]

550pk. Schitterende kuipjes...

[Gast]

Amai, 3 weken GT3 en 'm weer verkopen...

Ach, hij heeft er tenminste 3 weken plezier van gehad ....

[Gast]

Bijna goed. Voor mij mag ie zo:

Voor mij persoonlijk de knapste kleurencombo voor de MK1 GT3RS.

[Gast]

http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showDetails.html?id=122329640&__lp=10&scopeId=C&sortOption.sortBy=price.consumerGrossEuro&sortOption.sortOrder=ASCENDING&makeModelVariant1.makeId=20100&makeModelVariant1.modelId=3&makeModelVariant1.modelDescription=GT3&makeModelVariant1.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant2.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant3.searchInFreetext=false&vehicleCategory=Car&segment=Car&siteId=GERMANY&negativeFeatures=EXPORT&damageUnrepaired=NO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED&export=NO_EXPORT&maxMileage=10000&customerIdsAsString=&lang=de&pageNumber=4

[Gast]

Fout stuur en foute velgen.

[Gast]

Ik vind die nieuwe GT3 niet sportief genoeg uitzien.