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Fast Bug said:
How can you tell? I need to improve my beardage 
Club sport will have nomex buckets and a black cage that looks slightly different in structure. The comfort cars that had the added items normally had leather buckets and a bolted in silver coloured cage. I suppose there will have been the odd exception but this was pretty much the rule. Club sport has a battery cut off under the hood too. Negligible difference between the club sport and a comfort with buckets but they do attract a bit of a premium. DT398 said:
Fast Bug said:
How can you tell? I need to improve my beardage
Club sport will have nomex buckets and a black cage that looks slightly different in structure. The comfort cars that had the added items normally had leather buckets and a bolted in silver coloured cage. I suppose there will have been the odd exception but this was pretty much the rule. Club sport has a battery cut off under the hood too. Negligible difference between the club sport and a comfort with buckets but they do attract a bit of a premium. DT398 said:
Club sport will have nomex buckets and a black cage that looks slightly different in structure. The comfort cars that had the added items normally had leather buckets and a bolted in silver coloured cage. I suppose there will have been the odd exception but this was pretty much the rule. Club sport has a battery cut off under the hood too. Negligible difference between the club sport and a comfort with buckets but they do attract a bit of a premium.
Ta, I forgot the CS has cloth bucketslemmingjames said:
alfapork said:
Is it me or is there a Porsche crest missing on those seats?
Is that a comfort with a set of designteks?
Think from memory, the embossed Crest was an option on the leather bucketsIs that a comfort with a set of designteks?
Genuine 996.1 CS are easy to spot - no air bags in the doors and also two battery cut offs - one where the centre console is and also another under the bonnet. The CS cage is also completely different from the Tequipment cage. Last but not least - a 996.1 CS has the single mass 964RS flywheel, so at idle it sounds like there is gravel in the bellhousing...
Cheburator mk2 said:
Genuine 996.1 CS are easy to spot - no air bags in the doors and also two battery cut offs - one where the centre console is and also another under the bonnet. The CS cage is also completely different from the Tequipment cage. Last but not least - a 996.1 CS has the single mass 964RS flywheel, so at idle it sounds like there is gravel in the bellhousing...
I installed the 964rs smfw in my 996.2 - pretty cool mod. Chatters a bit though. LaSource said:
Digga said:
O/T I met the owner of your previously owned, blue 996.2 CS at the "320" event at PEC on Saturday.
Yeah I saw the pics 
Digga said:
It's amazing just how much more exciting the 996 GT3 interior looks with a cage, bucket seats and the Cup three spoke (non-airbag) steering wheel.
I'm tempted to do the Cup steering wheel thing in my 997.1...Digga said:
LaSource said:
Digga said:
O/T I met the owner of your previously owned, blue 996.2 CS at the "320" event at PEC on Saturday.
Yeah I saw the pics Digga said:
It's amazing just how much more exciting the 996 GT3 interior looks with a cage, bucket seats and the Cup three spoke (non-airbag) steering wheel.
I'm tempted to do the Cup steering wheel thing in my 997.1...
It's been a pain for one MOT (I had to take the car away, re-fit the standard wheel and bring it back), but that was unusual - every other time I've MOT'd it has been fine. The place that didn't like it I had to use as the MOT had run out whilst the car was in the paint shop, the indy that looks after the car MOT it usually and they're fine with it.
Insurance didn't say anything after I listed the modifications.
Insurance didn't say anything after I listed the modifications.
Dammit said:
I swapped to the Cup wheel partly in order to stop punching myself in the thigh when I turned the wheel, and also in order that I could reach said wheel comfortably with the seat in the correct position - it's made a big difference to the fit of the car.
How f
king big are you exactly? Or do you have the wheel at the lowest height setting?
Digga said:
Splendid, thank you. 
Which also reminds me that I am unwavering in my preference for the 996 interior, over the 997.
I have to say that as a design exercise, in my mind, the 996 interior is an absolute masterpiece. It is unique - just like the 911 is. There is coherent language and the ergonomics is superb. Where it fails really badly is the materials quality. It is beyond bad - a 1995 Hyundai feels better. Perhaps a leather clad 996 dash looks/feels alright, but my plastic 996.1 CS is awful. My E46 M3, which is off the same vintage is streets ahead in terms of feel good inside. Perhaps fitting, given that this is the only time BMW really took the fight to the 911 and won...Which also reminds me that I am unwavering in my preference for the 996 interior, over the 997.
Anyway, a Cup wheel looks lovely in any GT Porsche
My 996 turbo was full leather and, to me, was a beautiful place to spend time driving. The instrument binacle is clear and the bits that are a bit bargain basement cheap-looking are hidden from your line of sight.
What is there, and I was instantly reminded of this when I got into 993rsr's Carrera GT (contemporaneous to my old 996), is the atmosphere and aroma of the Porsche hide of that vintage. It's very distinctive and, to me, very reassuringly 'right'.
What is there, and I was instantly reminded of this when I got into 993rsr's Carrera GT (contemporaneous to my old 996), is the atmosphere and aroma of the Porsche hide of that vintage. It's very distinctive and, to me, very reassuringly 'right'.
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