RWB Porsche, is it just me?

[wolfracesonic]

Just came across this vid on Youtube RWB Porsche Now to my eyes it just looks like some Japanese bloke flying round the world to self tap and silicone some dodgy looking fiberglass to some innocent Porsches, imagine the TV series 'Monkey' but with our man wielding a skeleton gun instead of a magical staff; yet a bit of Googling reveals some consider him some sort Porsche maven, the 911 DNA somehow intertwined with his own at a molecular level, his visions appearing to him through a nicotine fugg. Now I get Singers all day long, but this? What says the hive mind?

[AndrewD]

Not my bag. At all.

[Chlorothalonil]

Agree. Those cars must rust like buggery after that tt has butchered them.

[Cheib]

It's not just you.

[Redarress]

I can sort of see what he is trying to do. A race like look but honestly a 993 with real or copy but of the correct proportioned arches and GT spoilers wins aesthetically every time for me All his stick on parts are too extreme to look pleasing to the eye but then I am a fifty something powerfully built director type so perhaps not in touch with yuuth tastes 😀

[RSVP911]

A new level of wrong ! Awful

[patch5674]

I have posted this previously I think when the Liberty Walk 458 kits were released. But basically people who look at these sorts of customisations and Liberty Walk etc need to understand the car culture in Japan. I don't claim to be an expert but this video is a great watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0MDY9fl-IA

[SRT Hellcat]

Whilst not my cup of tea I say each to his own. That said he has a good eye and goes his own way. Much like Magnus Walker. Their enthusiasm and passion is all that matters IMO

[Upnorthgt3]

Emperor’s new clothes springs to mind - no one says he’s a butcher ‘cos he’s all fashionable etc

[Evolved]

I posted the exact same thing in youtube the other day. I find it totally bizarre the following he has, people paying him a load of cash to come and screw a load of tat to an otherwise great condition car. He even uses that cheap, stty chicken wire mesh, that he then sprays before bending into shape, and securing with his glue gun.

Very odd indeed.

[jakesmith]

I was just watching him sawing bits off the car and then running his finger down the line of sealant like how I do a door frame when I'm decorating the house thinking, 'what the fk is he doing that for!!'

[Steve Rance]

Very arty. But what really matters is how they perform from the driver’s seat.

I’ll take a GT3 or an air cooled RS instead thank you very much

[Slippydiff]

Oh dear, I quite like some of them (though non of the 993's) and only the plain Jane 964's
In essence they're no different to the stuff the factory produced to go racing 40 years ago :







Here's one I've deleted the arch join lines and rivets (please excuse my non existent photoshop skills) I think it looks superb :



My biggest concern would be how the bloody things drive, as I worked out the front wheels were an inch wider but with waaaay more offset than any factory race 964 RSR. (RWB use a 10.5 inch front wheel with 70mm more offset than the 9.5" front wheel the RSR race cars used ....)
Safe to say they're built more for show than go I suspect.

[dtmpower]

To be honest I doubt Nakai-san really cares what we think. I met him back about 6 years ago and I doubt he would have built any cars outside Japan had it not been for other people's business interests.

https://youtu.be/6FKeZC2rdiY

I made this clip just a typical day in a small Japanese workshop.

[Juno]

PORSCHE Harrods RWB Bodykit so at least we have two quality brands to hand,just need to work out now which are the two out of three?

Love it or loath it you've got to hand it to him that's a fair bit of work to knock out in under 20 minutes Is this the DIY demo video for the rush of kits he is expecting to export to us on his return home

If he is a Japanese Guru God of some sort then they must be buttoned up back to front over there or maybe just not buttoned up at all

Just be thankful that was not a 964RS

[e30m3Mark]

Better cars out there for less money. If he was doing this stuff to Vauxhall Astra he'd get slated from dawn till dusk but because of the money involved, he's treated like some automotive god.

[G-996]

Each to their own - not my cup of tea though

[Cheib]

I can't help thinking these won't age well....a bit like some of those horrendous 1980's wide body conversions

[fredt]

Cheib said:

I can't help thinking these won't age well....a bit like some of those horrendous 1980's wide body conversions

They don't really need to age well, as long as whoever commissioned it enjoys it. Saying that I don't see why you'd take a 993 c2 and make it look like a GT2 race car.

Apparently he started out building and modifying 911's for himself to race, then started getting requests to build cars. No he did not.

Personally I'd take 600hp 930 RWB over a Singer any day of the week. Singer is a car I can neither stand or understand. That Singer video posted here the other day was utterly cringeworthy.

Edited by fredt on Wednesday 3rd January 15:20

[v8ksn]

As a general rule...

• If a modification makes a car go faster or handle better then I am all for it.

• If a modification is purely to garner attention to the detriment of the cars handling then its sh*te