RE: Porsche 959 v 997 Turbo

[Joe911]

[humpy]

There's a chap in my road with a grey 959 - FABULOUS!!

[GuyR]

OK so thats a UK plate 959 Sport (one mirror) parked at Manthey - isn't that giving the owner away a little bit........

Guy

[flemke]

GuyR said:

OK so thats a UK plate 959 Sport (one mirror) parked at Manthey - isn't that giving the owner away a little bit........

Guy

Actually it's got the other mirror too, which is just blocked from view.
You can tell it's a Sport by the roll cage.

No attempt to be cute; someone above asked for images, and I had taken a few recently.
I couldn't get my MemoryStick to work, so Joe911 was kind enough to post the images.

[markbe]

Joe911 said:

markbe said:

959 Lux.....0-60=4.2....0-100=9.7....0-150=22.5...Fast Lane 1989.

Are the figures for the "Sport" much different (lighter weight)?

((and of course flemke's has a litle extra power, just in case of emergencies))

Actually - looking on the web ...
959 Sport - 0-62 in 3.7s ... 0-100 in 8.3s

Edited by Joe911 on Friday 6th October 18:24

From memory at the time the sport was 200 kilos lighter,also the factory claimed figuers were somewhat fanciful.although 8.something would calculate about right.

Mark.

[PascalBuyens]

RubenRocket said:

I sold the Rocket, Flemke!

It was not as bulletproof as hoped, giving me too many headaches. And the total lack of weight / downforce at the front wheels was getting more and more annoying too. But it is still here in Holland and being taken good care of! I am back with the Norfolk boys again, I guess they just give me the most smiles per gallon

Cheers, Ruben

I've seen your Rocket a few times... You're sure that it's "being taken good care of"? I know the new owner (if it is who I'm thinking) and he's a bit of a nutcase

[PascalBuyens]

flemke said:

GuyR said:

OK so thats a UK plate 959 Sport (one mirror) parked at Manthey - isn't that giving the owner away a little bit........

Guy

Actually it's got the other mirror too, which is just blocked from view.
You can tell it's a Sport by the roll cage.

No attempt to be cute; someone above asked for images, and I had taken a few recently.
I couldn't get my MemoryStick to work, so Joe911 was kind enough to post the images.

And thinking logically... I thought all 959 were LHD, would be a bit silly to put a mirror on the RHD side only, not?

[flemke]

PascalBuyens said:

And thinking logically... I thought all 959 were LHD, would be a bit silly to put a mirror on the RHD side only, not?

Yes, they were all LHD.

Actually, in standard form the 959s came with a mirror on the left side only.

[tiga84]

Lovely looking 959 Flemke. Although my first thoughts were that it was going to be silver for some reason.

[mc_blue]

flemke - love the 959 the colour is superb.

[flemke]

mc_blue said:

flemke - love the 959 the colour is superb.

Cheers.
I'm normally put off by red cars, but in this case I had no choice.
White would have been my first choice, like the 961s at Le Mans. With 35 Sports in the world, it was unlikely that I was going to come across one in white, so I got this.
I do think that several Porsche shapes work fairly well in Guards/India Red.

It came with the usual boring silver/grey wheels (), so I had to do something about them.

Edited by flemke on Sunday 8th October 18:42

[Frik]

Do any of your cars have wheels of a standard colour flemke?

[flemke]

tiga84 said:

Lovely looking 959 Flemke. Although my first thoughts were that it was going to be silver for some reason.

Have got rather tired of silver, although the silver car behind it in the images could be said to be mine, so technically you may be correct.
I'm going to sell it, so then I would be silverless.

[flemke]

Frik said:

Do any of your cars have wheels of a standard colour flemke?

Yes, for instance the silver car behind the 959!

I only change the colour of the wheels if I expect to have a car for a long time (and, if they need to be changed, which most do).

[aasc]

Flemke, what size brakes does the 959 have - are they of the "big-red" ilk or entirely different?

thanks,

[lotusse89]

Ocassionally I'll see a photo of a 959 taken from a certain angle, that just ruins it for me.

Like this


makes it look like this

[flemke]

aasc said:

Flemke, what size brakes does the 959 have - are they of the "big-red" ilk or entirely different?

thanks,

Oh, no, not Big Reds.

The wheels are 17, the rotors 322mm/304 F/R. Four pots F/R.
The brakes are just fantastic. If you were to thrash the car on a circuit, I expect that they would fade, if only because of the car's weight and the speeds that you would be doing. Fade is influenced by many things in addition to rotor size, weight and speed, so who knows? Perhaps they would hang in there.
For normal road driving, however, they are the best that I have ever used: minimal pedal travel, instantaneous reactivity, very good feel. They are a proper driving tool.

[police state]

Flemke,

Did your 959 come with some kind of commemorative book, perhaps detailing its history/origins?

[flemke]

lotusse89 said:

Ocassionally I'll see a photo of a 959 taken from a certain angle, that just ruins it for me.

Like this


makes it look like this

Maybe so, but how many times in real life have you looked at a 959 with your face squashed against the ground?

[flemke]

police state said:

Did your 959 come with some kind of commemorative book, perhaps detailing its history/origins?

Not as such.
Although pretty low mileage, it had a thick sheaf of documentation, OPC services, images from books in which it had been pictured, that sort of thing. No special book.