Cayman Gt4 Clubsport
Discussion
I’ve helped run a couple of the 718 CS cars that are currently participating in the current Porsche Sprint Challenge GB championship.
We ran the cars for a few track days preseason… and they are pretty straight forward, and really for a track day you could manage to run a car yourself easily, if you have done pre-prep prior to the event anyway.
Gearbox and engine are not life or hours parts as no rebuilds required. Car can be serviced at any OPC.
You can get a good supply of take off tyres if you can get in a relationship with a team.
If you’re doing a lot of days, it’s much better, faster, safer and gratifying to run something like a GT4 Clubsport than it is to track a road GT car heavily.
Pace will be similar or 991 GT3 RS over a lap, faster in the corners, slower on the straight.
But it can do it all day, bullet proof.
Starting again… I’d probably go this route
Number of teams and contacts can help source a car of either generation.
There should be a fair few 981 available, as race teams have moved to 718. 718 is much more prepared out of the box, even comes with AC as standard, which wasn’t on the 981.
There may be varying trims and configurations also dependant on what the car was used for,
British GT or any other series.…
The differences will extend to the level of safety equipment, damper spec (fixed, 2-way or 3way adjustable) and body panels, aluminium or carbon fibre/nature fibre.
We ran the cars for a few track days preseason… and they are pretty straight forward, and really for a track day you could manage to run a car yourself easily, if you have done pre-prep prior to the event anyway.
Gearbox and engine are not life or hours parts as no rebuilds required. Car can be serviced at any OPC.
You can get a good supply of take off tyres if you can get in a relationship with a team.
If you’re doing a lot of days, it’s much better, faster, safer and gratifying to run something like a GT4 Clubsport than it is to track a road GT car heavily.
Pace will be similar or 991 GT3 RS over a lap, faster in the corners, slower on the straight.
But it can do it all day, bullet proof.
Starting again… I’d probably go this route
Number of teams and contacts can help source a car of either generation.
There should be a fair few 981 available, as race teams have moved to 718. 718 is much more prepared out of the box, even comes with AC as standard, which wasn’t on the 981.
There may be varying trims and configurations also dependant on what the car was used for,
British GT or any other series.…
The differences will extend to the level of safety equipment, damper spec (fixed, 2-way or 3way adjustable) and body panels, aluminium or carbon fibre/nature fibre.
Edited by TDT on Sunday 27th September 17:09
TDT said:
I’ve helped run a couple of the 718 CS cars that are currently participating in the current Porsche Sprint Challenge GB championship.
We ran the cars for a few track days preseason… and they are pretty straight forward, and really for a track day you could manage to run a car yourself easily, if you have done pre-prep prior to the event anyway.
Gearbox and engine are not life or hours parts as no rebuilds required. Car can be serviced at any OPC.
You can get a good supply of take off tyres if you can get in a relationship with a team.
If you’re doing a lot of days, it’s much better, faster, safer and gratifying to run something like a GT4 Clubsport than it is to track a road GT car heavily.
Starting again… I’d probably go this route.
Number of teams and contacts can help source a car of either generation.
Thanks for reply, basically what your saying about running them for trackdays on my own is what I thought, and they seem Really appealing too me as I now have a enclosed car transporter so my track car doesn’t really need to be road legal. Do you have any idea how strong the engine & gearbox is based on it being used in a racing environment, I would be interested in a 2nd hand car so wouldn’t want to buy “trouble”. Also is there many come up for sale in the uk often?? We ran the cars for a few track days preseason… and they are pretty straight forward, and really for a track day you could manage to run a car yourself easily, if you have done pre-prep prior to the event anyway.
Gearbox and engine are not life or hours parts as no rebuilds required. Car can be serviced at any OPC.
You can get a good supply of take off tyres if you can get in a relationship with a team.
If you’re doing a lot of days, it’s much better, faster, safer and gratifying to run something like a GT4 Clubsport than it is to track a road GT car heavily.
Starting again… I’d probably go this route.
Number of teams and contacts can help source a car of either generation.
NIgt3 said:
TDT said:
I’ve helped run a couple of the 718 CS cars that are currently participating in the current Porsche Sprint Challenge GB championship.
We ran the cars for a few track days preseason… and they are pretty straight forward, and really for a track day you could manage to run a car yourself easily, if you have done pre-prep prior to the event anyway.
Gearbox and engine are not life or hours parts as no rebuilds required. Car can be serviced at any OPC.
You can get a good supply of take off tyres if you can get in a relationship with a team.
If you’re doing a lot of days, it’s much better, faster, safer and gratifying to run something like a GT4 Clubsport than it is to track a road GT car heavily.
Starting again… I’d probably go this route.
Number of teams and contacts can help source a car of either generation.
Thanks for reply, basically what your saying about running them for trackdays on my own is what I thought, and they seem Really appealing too me as I now have a enclosed car transporter so my track car doesn’t really need to be road legal. Do you have any idea how strong the engine & gearbox is based on it being used in a racing environment, I would be interested in a 2nd hand car so wouldn’t want to buy “trouble”. Also is there many come up for sale in the uk often?? We ran the cars for a few track days preseason… and they are pretty straight forward, and really for a track day you could manage to run a car yourself easily, if you have done pre-prep prior to the event anyway.
Gearbox and engine are not life or hours parts as no rebuilds required. Car can be serviced at any OPC.
You can get a good supply of take off tyres if you can get in a relationship with a team.
If you’re doing a lot of days, it’s much better, faster, safer and gratifying to run something like a GT4 Clubsport than it is to track a road GT car heavily.
Starting again… I’d probably go this route.
Number of teams and contacts can help source a car of either generation.
981 CS is the exact same as the 981 GT4 road car expect deeper oil pan for managing temps better and some sensor adjustment. Manifold with 100cell cats.
718 CS has the same 3.8 with X51 heads and cam and then the intake solution based upon 991.1 R/RS.… (I’ve just had this fitted to my road GT4)
Gearbox is from the 2.7 981 so has shorter ratio and final drive, with 7th electronically locked out.
As I said pretty strong, although under race conditions there will no doubt have been failures of some components.
Yep if you have a transporter and towing vehicle already… it make perfect sense to get swim thing like one of these. It’s a proper race car… familiar but at the same time a world apart from the road cars in the way they go, turn and brake.
After driving race cars, tracking road cars is hard and somewhat of a let down. You have to recalibrate yourself down to the extra weight and softness in responses.
As for purchasing… they do come up… best to get in touch with a team… as they’ll have the best connects, other than that there are a few specialists that can source.
Edited by TDT on Sunday 27th September 17:06
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