RE: Geneva Motor Show 2013: Porsche

[mollytherocker]

C36 Nico said:

Was there not some talk of the 996.2 GT3 being a different engine?

Different to what?

[C36 Nico]

mollytherocker said:

C36 Nico said:

Was there not some talk of the 996.2 GT3 being a different engine?

Different to what?

dunno,remember the comparisons between the 996GT3 mk1 and mk2, with people saying the mk1 had the more "special" engine.

Dunno if that meant characteristics or internals..

[Wills2]

C36 Nico said:

mollytherocker said:

C36 Nico said:

Was there not some talk of the 996.2 GT3 being a different engine?

Different to what?

dunno,remember the comparisons between the 996GT3 mk1 and mk2, with people saying the mk1 had the more "special" engine.

Dunno if that meant characteristics or internals..

The difference is IIRC that the .1 was hand made at Weissach. Could wrong though. (I've checked and internet tells me I'm right!)

Edited by Wills2 on Thursday 7th March 14:01

[RichardParker90]

Not sure if this point has been raised yet..but here goes.

Could Porsche's, seemingly, sudden 180 change to PDK adoption for their GT models be related to VW AG's recent purchase of them. Remember in 2010, Porsche's head of R/D for racing and their GT cars is credited for saying that Porsche is committed to retaining the manual transmission for their various GT products for the foreable future. Then just last year the same person is recorded as saying that they came to a decision to use an updated PDK variant for the new GT3, which oddly coincides with VW AG's purchase.

Note:http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ECATvlRf3ls&feature=g-user-u

I don't usually believe in conspiracies but this seems intriguing. Also it's interesting to note that Durheimer's hand in various projects all over VW. So this interplay between VW and Porsche, each having caring degrees of influence on each other is quite interesting.

[danp]

so "lightning shifts" in the new gt3 are under 100ms, how come that is 20ms slower than the 10 year old smg2 in the M3 CSL?

and upshifts are on the left hand paddle, isn't that backwards from race cars and the way pdk used to do it? (before they switched it over after complaints!)

http://press.porsche.com/vehicles/2014/2014_GT3_US...

Edited by danp on Monday 29th April 09:46