997 GT3 Gen1 clubsport

[JarmoL]

keep it lit said:

Hi J

Yup seen the 996 red Manthey Monster car epic !

you coming down for any of the THREE DN days this summer mate ?

Hi Ade

I'd love to but financies are kind of tight. If someone buys my 968 turbo I'll be there for sure! (no.. it's not factory original turbo!)

[keep it lit]

JarmoL said:

Hi Ade

I'd love to but financies are kind of tight. If someone buys my 968 turbo I'll be there for sure! (no.. it's not factory original turbo!)

do your duty.... pics & spec please

[JarmoL]

keep it lit said:

do your duty.... pics & spec please

Some info here, only one pic, sorry! http://rejsa.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1279840#1279...
Have to put it up on mobile.de before spring..

[Steve Rance]

So here is the car. Very nice example.

[kas750]

Wow..very nice..I will be collecting my 997 GT3 next week and can't wait!

[LaSource]

Steve Rance said:

So here is the car. Very nice example.

Mmm...I do like Speed Yellow. Congrats.

[Trev450]

Very nice. Let the fun begin.

[fioran0]

Steve Rance said:

So here is the car. Very nice example.

Looks great.

[Harris_I]

LaSource said:

Mmm...I do like Speed Yellow. Congrats.

Same here. Suits both 996 and 997 so well.

[keep it lit]

Very smart lucky fella

[Steve Rance]

Thanks Guys. I'll get all of the oils changed straight away then the first job will be the diff.

[Scooty100]

Steve Rance said:

Thanks Guys. I'll get all of the oils changed straight away then the first job will be the diff.

Hi Steve. Can I ask if you purchased your car from a dealer or private? Looks very familiar to one a friend was looking at on pH recently ..cheers

[Richie200]

Looks fantastic Steve and as others have pointed out the Speed Yellow really suits the car I can't wait to see the finer detail and how your chosen development path transform the driving experience.

[CK_N4S]

Richie200 said:

I have also found the invoice for when the engine and gearbox were recently converted to 3.8l and also the gearbox revision (you may be able to make something out of this; Getriebe is gearbox in german):



This video may give you an idea of the final drive as I take the car to the top of 3rd about 165kph:
http://vid1379.photobucket.com/albums/ah147/richar...

Looking at that bill I find it amusing to nearly recognise the german numberplate.

Mine is AW GT3600

CK

[martinday]

Slippydiff said:

Yours Steve ?

http://www.jzmporsche.com/porsche-for-sale/911/997...

If so, change of plan ? Going 964 air-cooled project instead ?

I've been considering enquiring about that car at JZM. I'm not sure it is Steve's. Earlier in the thread he said it came from Supercar Rooms which I guess was this one :

http://www.thesupercarrooms.co.uk/car-details/pors...

registered May 2007, 35,691 miles according to that advert but the one at JZM was registered in March 2007 and was (presumably) sold by them last August :

http://www.jzmporsche.com/porsche-for-sale/911/997...

with 36,000 miles on the clock.

As far as I can tell the specs on these two cars are identical with very similar mileage and only two months apart in delivery date.

It looks like one of them also resold through Ashgoods early this year :

http://www.ashgood.co.uk/product/112/2007-porsche-...

unless there's a third with the same spec.


Does anyone know if these are two identical cars or just one car that's been confused with incorrect registration date / mileage in the adverts?

[Steve Rance]

Just seen this post. Apologies for the (very) late reply. Nope, not mine. Still have it. Planning on starting the project over the winter now that my 964 is finished. This is the project that I have been most looking forward to. pretty much clear on what's to be done - which will be the absolute minimum in terms of changing the original spec and everything must be purely bolt on.

[v8ksn]

I'm very interested in your vision for this car and what you plan to do to it to achieve it.

Are you building it for the road or the track?

[Steve Rance]

As per the 964 really. Road and track. I always prefer a sharp set up on the road. It makes for an involving drive at all speeds. Set ups that are set to maximum road performance tend to be very uninvolving at lower/safe speeds.

[v8ksn]

Steve Rance said:

As per the 964 really. Road and track. I always prefer a sharp set up on the road. It makes for an involving drive at all speeds. Set ups that are set to maximum road performance tend to be very uninvolving at lower/safe speeds.

Very interesting, I'm finding that my 997.1 GT3 is a little too focussed on track work and it makes for a difficult drive at normal road speeds. I'm planning on 'starting from scratch' with the geo and then going from there.

Looking forward to hearing more updates

[Steve Rance]

v8ksn said:

Very interesting, I'm finding that my 997.1 GT3 is a little too focussed on track work and it makes for a difficult drive at normal road speeds. I'm planning on 'starting from scratch' with the geo and then going from there.

Looking forward to hearing more updates

If you have a standard 'the customer is an idiot' set up, I can well believe that it's pretty awful everywhere. A decent set up will transform it