1989 RUF CTR Replica

[Mintbird]

Been a labour of love this. Neil Rainger in Liverpool did the bodywork - its a 89 3.2 With rain gutter delete, RUF CTR steel arch extentions, genuine ruf bumpers back and front - Integrated Rollcage -

Now getting ready for assembly. Engine will be a Richard Chamberlain Built Turbo with a K27-7200, 3.2 Carrera intake , on motec and with a B&B exhaust and headers.

Gearbox is a 964 turbo G50 5-speed sourced from a French 964 turbo around 110.000 KM

Power should be adequate, 400+


Can anyone guess the color

[johnny senna]

Fantastic!! Good idea for a custom build.
I was lucky enough to have a passenger ride in a real Yellowbird at Vmax around 17 years ago I think it was. (Thanks AdamT). What an incredible car that was. I had a 993 RS at the time which felt pedestrian in comparison.

[SRT Hellcat]

Brilliant project. Look forward to seeing its completion. Richard is a lovely guy and very clever

[IMI A]

Bring it up to Elvington and run the Standing Mile when its finished. 10/10

[jonny finance]

Very cool. Signal ??

[Doofus]

Is the rain gutter thing just for looks?

[Mintbird]

Signal 🧡 rain gutters are for top speed

[Doofus]

Seriously?

[Mintbird]

yeah less drag

[Doofus]

Blimey.

[Mintbird]

Signal 🧡 rain gutters are for top speed

[AW10]

On an aircooled 911 the raingutters actually go to the base of the A pillars which adds a fair bit of drag. https://rennlist.com/forums/964-forum/429634-ruf-a...

[Cheib]

Very nice Mr Mintbird The Black car with Green decals in one of the pics looks very nice too…..

[Penguinracer]

Why the choice of a K27-7200 rather than a Garrett, BW, IHI or Holset given that the original CTR was twin turbo in any case?

[TB993tt]

Mintbird said:

Signal ?? rain gutters are for top speed

Thought I'd chime in since people have heard of gutter delete but I don't think there has ever been any proper back to back testing on exactly how much more slippery the gutter delete makes these air cooled cars ?

So I used to vmax my 577hp 993 turbo which wore wider arches and 9" and 11" wheels, a turbo S front spoiler and turbo S rear spoiler it would just about hit 7000rpm at Bruntingthorpe at the braking marker as shown in the somewhat shakey video below, checkout the sunroof noise at over 180mph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75G3gk2-XMU

Following this I had a new roof put on without sunroof, the gutters deleted and a genuine 993 GT2 spooiler put on together with amore aggressive FVD "GT2 style" front lip.

I ran at Bruntigthorpe again expecting the car to be quite a bit slower since surely the front and rear spoilers would drag like hell prticulary the big GT2 piece with its gaping side air intakes......

I was wrong, the car hit the limiter at about 7100rpm with about 300 metres to go before the braking line it did it consitently many times I was pretty gobsmacked and concluded that the gutter delete made a massive difference to the aero, Ruf et al were spot on.

Pic in gutter delete mode wearing draggy spoilers

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[AW10]

This is tb993tt's old motor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL4gEtpj9pw

[SRT Hellcat]

TB993tt said:

Mintbird said:

Signal ?? rain gutters are for top speed

Thought I'd chime in since people have heard of gutter delete but I don't think there has ever been any proper back to back testing on exactly how much more slippery the gutter delete makes these air cooled cars ?

So I used to vmax my 577hp 993 turbo which wore wider arches and 9" and 11" wheels, a turbo S front spoiler and turbo S rear spoiler it would just about hit 7000rpm at Bruntingthorpe at the braking marker as shown in the somewhat shakey video below, checkout the sunroof noise at over 180mph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75G3gk2-XMU

Following this I had a new roof put on without sunroof, the gutters deleted and a genuine 993 GT2 spooiler put on together with amore aggressive FVD "GT2 style" front lip.

I ran at Bruntigthorpe again expecting the car to be quite a bit slower since surely the front and rear spoilers would drag like hell prticulary the big GT2 piece with its gaping side air intakes......

I was wrong, the car hit the limiter at about 7100rpm with about 300 metres to go before the braking line it did it consitently many times I was pretty gobsmacked and concluded that the gutter delete made a massive difference to the aero, Ruf et al were spot on.

Pic in gutter delete mode wearing draggy spoilers

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Out of interest, what where your speeds at VMax ?

[Yellow491]

SRT Hellcat said:

TB993tt said:

Mintbird said:

Signal ?? rain gutters are for top speed

Thought I'd chime in since people have heard of gutter delete but I don't think there has ever been any proper back to back testing on exactly how much more slippery the gutter delete makes these air cooled cars ?

So I used to vmax my 577hp 993 turbo which wore wider arches and 9" and 11" wheels, a turbo S front spoiler and turbo S rear spoiler it would just about hit 7000rpm at Bruntingthorpe at the braking marker as shown in the somewhat shakey video below, checkout the sunroof noise at over 180mph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75G3gk2-XMU

Following this I had a new roof put on without sunroof, the gutters deleted and a genuine 993 GT2 spooiler put on together with amore aggressive FVD "GT2 style" front lip.

I ran at Bruntigthorpe again expecting the car to be quite a bit slower since surely the front and rear spoilers would drag like hell prticulary the big GT2 piece with its gaping side air intakes......

I was wrong, the car hit the limiter at about 7100rpm with about 300 metres to go before the braking line it did it consitently many times I was pretty gobsmacked and concluded that the gutter delete made a massive difference to the aero, Ruf et al were spot on.

Pic in gutter delete mode wearing draggy spoilers

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Out of interest, what where your speeds at VMax ?

Genuine? Was the wind direction and speed the same,makes a massive difference.
I run gutter blanks up the screen of my hillclimber,cant say i noticed any increase through the speed trap over the years,even removing wing mirrors and wipers and taping up the front hood gaps etc.
But thinking of running the ruf fillets on the gt2 for terminal speeds.

[TB993tt]

SRT Hellcat said:

Out of interest, what where your speeds at VMax ?

From memory it was at ~200mph at the limiter but like I said I had to ease off ~300m before the beams as it was stuttering on the limiter.

[TB993tt]

Yellow491 said:

Genuine? Was the wind direction and speed the same,makes a massive difference.
I run gutter blanks up the screen of my hillclimber,cant say i noticed any increase through the speed trap over the years,even removing wing mirrors and wipers and taping up the front hood gaps etc.
But thinking of running the ruf fillets on the gt2 for terminal speeds.

A nice following wind can give you 5mph at Brunters, there was no wind on the day in question and there were many other previous days with gutters intact with various wind states and it never hit the limiter by the beams. Maybe the it's not just the front pillars but the whole revised roof shape which alters the aero drastically, I also had a plastic flush fit DP Motorsport window fitted and rear wiper delete which must have helped.

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Edited by TB993tt on Wednesday 24th May 12:15