Who doesnt want to be a race car driver at the weekend? This is a rare opportunity to own and experience an incredibly well built 2001 Porsche 911 C4 track car. The car was built as a personal track car by the owner of a well-known shop in the suburbs of Chicago. Specializing in Porsche, the owner built the car to highlight and promote the shops skills. The car was designed for fun and never used for serious competition. The goal of the project was to build a high-performance weekend track car that would demonstrate the ease of the conversion from 聯older street car聰 to fun track car with a water-cooled Porsche. A crucial part of that goal was to maintain a reliable vehicle that was easy to service and simple to evaluate diagnostically. All electronic and mechanical systems in the car function the same way they do on a street car.
The exception is hvac 聳 you dont need that at the track! The car features a hand built and heavily modified M96 2003 S 3.6L engine that was enlarged to 4.0L - dyno tuned to output approximately 425 HP and built to extremely precise tolerance levels. From engine through brakes and suspension, every upgrade possible was addressed to produce a fast, fun, safe and reliable car. Lots more detail below. To try to describe how incredible the car drives just wont do it justice, but I will try. Before you even get rolling, the sound it makes is utterly incredible. I am listing the majority of its modifications below along and a few pictures that should truly give you the sense of what this incredible car is all about. 6 speed manual trans hardened by Gbox with second gear pop-out fixed. The car was built by Rennology Motor Sport Inc. They specialized in Porsche with a combined 100 years of expertise in house. They built numerous engines and maintained an outstanding reputation with hundreds of Porsche customers. The owner of the shop has since retired but is always willing and excited to talk about this amazing vehicle. This was his personal track car and he has many hours of hands-on painstaking work in the car.
Unlike the new GT3, the GT3 RS will only be available with Porsche鈥檚 PDK seven-speed dual-clutch automatic鈥擯orsche positions its "RS" cars for those concerned with the fastest possible lap time. If you've read this or any other car publication, you'll know that Porsche's PDK is the best dual-clutch around, and you won't be surprised to learn that it's mind-bending here. Shifts are so immediate and smooth, even the most die-hard save the manuals types will come away very impressed. I love this engine with a manual gearbox in the regular GT3鈥攖hat's what I'd buy if I could鈥攂ut there's no denying that an instantaneous 9000-rpm PDK upshift is an extraordinary experience. It's eye-opening. Literally, in my case, as a bit of standing water and let's say a less-than-precise throttle application caught me out within my first few minutes in the car. Porsche Stability Management kept everything in check, but it was almost as if the car was offering me a warning.
One that I heeded. The GT3 RS is a car that demands respect. At the same time, it's not unpredictable. The electric-assist steering is so talkative, it鈥檒l end your fears about this technology. And the optional carbon-ceramic brakes on our test car offered tons of feel and easy pedal modulation, with seamless transitions into ABS. Rear-wheel steering is standard on all 991-generation GT2 and GT3 models. The best thing I can say about it is that it's almost imperceptible. I drove the new GT3 RS just after getting out of a 1973 Carrera RS 2.7鈥擨 know, not a bad day鈥攁nd the new car didn't feel substantially larger than the old, despite the fact that it is. It's only at low speeds, when the rear steering virtually shortens the new car鈥檚 wheelbase, that you notice it at work. Two tires are offered standard on the new GT3 RS: Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2s, or Dunlop Sport Maxx Race 2s, both newly designed for this model.