Lizard RS used properly in a world of flippers

[terryb]

It’s a real shame to see all these fantastic cars being advertised by flippers - they really don’t know what they are missing out on...

Anyway, enough of that - picked my car up on 30 April, had it booked in for full PPF and ceramic coating but needed Matt Black decals but as the car was probably the 1st on the road in the UK then none available from Highgate House. So I agreed to meet Rick from HH at Guildford OPC at the end of the 1st week, to get the decals surveyed. Over the weekend, in for the PPF, etc.. After the weekend - Sharkwerks installed - nice

Following week starting to put miles on with no decals - eek - but still the absolute tits. Decals finally arrived, Sunday morning meet at 9 Excellence and then off to the Nurburgring the week after - time to find out what this bad boy can do. And boy is it a mega car. Had the geo setup by Manthey Racing before getting out on track at DN19. This RS is a decent step up in terms of being focused and hardcore compared to previous models - I think this will be a mega car in the future - really looking forward to more track action.

On the way home, stopped off for pics at Reims - great place to view if you haven’t been there before.

Edited by terryb on Thursday 31st May 23:05

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Taffy66 said:

Fantastic to see the new RS being used as its makers intended..Can you give an idea of what changes Manthey have done to the geo settings..Apparently they have transformed the GT2 RS as far as being a Ring master..
How different is the RS on the road after the geo alterations..?

They have a kit that modifies the OEM top mounts I believe, to enable it to get 3 deg camber front and also 2.8 deg rear. It feels similar on the road - didn’t feel very different, but was great on the track - I get all my cars set-up prior to getting out on track, either by Manthey, Black Falcon or JZM. Can’t grumble

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chrisABP said:

Did you get the Sharkwerks fitted before DN19 Terry?
Great to see your car being used properly and as intended. It boils my piss to see all the GT3, RS and GT2 RS cars for sale and clearly shows the wrong people are still getting the cars!

Of course I did - forgot to mention that - I’ll edit the 1st post

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v8ksn said:

Correct me if I am wrong but I think on the 996/7 you could flip the top-mounts to get a couple of degrees extra camber, there may be a similar 'trick' for the 991. Give Steve at JZM a ring, i'm sure he will know

I'm not sure of the specifics of what modifcations actually take place and also not sure that Manthey will share the info with JZM anymore - Manthey spend a lot of money on their R&D to get things to the level they want - I know last year they wouldn't share things regarding the 991.1RS - not when I enquired at least - which is why I took that car to Black Falcon

However, now I'm back to Manthey as they know these cars on the Ring like no-one else.

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Porsche911R said:

I would love to do the ring,but it looks scary on puplic days, will have to sort out a track day there.

It's a mega place - but I will only do trackdays now - saying that I actually did a TF lap the following day, but it was early and not too much traffic

You can also get insurance for trackdays at reasonable rates through Manning