997.1 GT3 ground clearance

[athomp04]

I am considering a 997.1 GT3, and one of my concerns is ground clearance.

My drive has a small ramp where raised from the road up to pavement height, and then slopes downwards, and as such there is small "hump" to negotiate.

My C2S has no issue, and my prospective purchase is too far away to try, so I am asking for some help from owners local to me on stock suspension settings to have a look.

I live in South Northamptonshire near J16 M1, or by the A5.

I will of course put the kettle on and pay for fuel costs.

Thanks

Ashley

[exigepete]

To be honest mate the front splitter on a 997.1 GT3 needs to be treated as a consumable item. Unless you fit an aftermarket lift kit which are very expensive, just grin and bear the scrape sound and replace it as necessary at 150 ish a pop. When pushing on on B roads they catch and scrape anyway. They are pretty flexible and bend up when scraped then pop back to shape. You can keep it tidy looking by using some wet and dry and and bit of black shoe polish

[g7jhp]

exigepete said:

Apologises for 4 replies, apparently its to do with ads refreshing while I reply? It's pissing me off!

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[exigepete]

Lol, got it sorted now I think!

OP buy it scrape the spoiler and enjoy it!

[graemel]

not very much when the tyres have melted

[S1MMA]

athomp04 said:

I am considering a 997.1 GT3, and one of my concerns is ground clearance.

My drive has a small ramp where raised from the road up to pavement height, and then slopes downwards, and as such there is small "hump" to negotiate.

My C2S has no issue, and my prospective purchase is too far away to try, so I am asking for some help from owners local to me on stock suspension settings to have a look.

I live in South Northamptonshire near J16 M1, or by the A5.

I will of course put the kettle on and pay for fuel costs.

Thanks

Ashley

Hi mate, after 3.5 years with a 997 GT3, I can say with some certainty and honesty, that they are very low and scrape on everything.

I tried to negotiate a long road full of these last week:



After nearly ripping the front splitter off on the first one, I started negotiating the rest of them (about 10) by first trying to avoid completely by driving in the middle of the road and slightly on the other side of the road if pos, then if I couldn't do this I would try taking one wheel over the highest part of the bump and the other through the gap (all of this is at 0.000938mph) which reduced the scrape or eliminated it if lucky. All this with a que of people behind me probably thinking "what is that bell end doing???", obv not knowing the 997 GT3 is the sttest car on planet earth over bumps.

Your driveway is the least of your worries, every journey through a town/residential area becomes an episode of the crystal maze tring to avoid speedhumps and/or potholes etc. Wouldn't change it for anything mind, but go in with eyes open!

[993AL]

[mrdemon]

S1MMA said:

I think I owe Demon some money or some thing
!

to quote

S1MMA
[report] [news] Monday 12th March 2012 quote quote all
. My point was: the MARKET PRICE will be £25k next year. That will be the market value. Not some made up arbitrary number. That is constructive, no?

Come back to me on this thread Demon, which I know you will have diarised in your diary for 31st December 2013, and let me know if you can't get one for £25k.

when you paying up your bet ?

[athomp04]

Thanks guys, it's that ramp break over that's the issue, which is hard to measure in practice and needs testing.

I can live with the splitter problem on the routes that I drive, and I accept choosing the cup one and treating it as a consumable.

Ashley

[doneitnow]

Good idea to do your homework first, I have just purchased a house, when I looked at the dip on the drive and the road I thought I would be able to wriggle around it, when I went and tried it the other week there is no chance, mine is a 996 gt3 but even so, be careful, unless the council can sort something I will have to sell the car

[exigepete]

The cup spoiler is even deeper than the standard one so will scrape even more!

[athomp04]

Thanks Pete, I thought it was made of a more flexible/pliable material and as such it would fold on impact so in the end would not be damaged as much.

Ashley

[Inverted]

The cup one is a fair bit more flexible than the standard one but also quite a bit lower.

The trade off's are it's cheaper to replace and it also clips on within 30 sec. So if you need to remove to get on your drive it's easy. I think the standard one is fixed/screwed on

[exigepete]

As Inverted said, yes cup more flexible but lower, here is a car with the Cup Spoiler.



Compared to normal spoiler

[TimLambert7]

Friend of mine has a driveway his GT3 won't go up without scraping so he reverses up instead. Is this not an option for you?

[athomp04]

Thank you for the replies so far and pictures of the different splitters.

Reversing up is a very good idea and feasible, however it is the ramp break over angle I believe that will be my biggest concern.

Ashley

[S1MMA]

mrdemon said:

to quote

S1MMA
[report] [news] Monday 12th March 2012 quote quote all
. My point was: the MARKET PRICE will be £25k next year. That will be the market value. Not some made up arbitrary number. That is constructive, no?

Come back to me on this thread Demon, which I know you will have diarised in your diary for 31st December 2013, and let me know if you can't get one for £25k.

when you paying up your bet ?

Where did this come from???? Wrong thread old buddy, we are talking about something completely unrelated here!!!

But as you asked.

I reckon this would go for £25k CASH MONEY if offered, where do I collect my monies????

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

[nigelonich]

exigepete said:

To be honest mate the front splitter on a 997.1 GT3 needs to be treated as a consumable item. Unless you fit an aftermarket lift kit which are very expensive, just grin and bear the scrape sound and replace it as necessary at 150 ish a pop. When pushing on on B roads they catch and scrape anyway. They are pretty flexible and bend up when scraped then pop back to shape. You can keep it tidy looking by using some wet and dry and and bit of black shoe polish

+1

It hurt the first time I damaged it (grounded out on open road) but I am over it now. I have lifting and its still a problem. Just buy a new one come sale time.