Help choosing which GT3
Discussion
Congratulations !! With one small caveat ...
Your opening post stated you want to drive the wheels off the car for years to come. I couldn’t help but notice the car you’ve purchased has the Comfort seat option. Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a deal breaker, but having owned a couple of 996 GT2’s, the first with Comfort seats, the second with buckets, I much preferred the buckets, and genuinely felt the Comfort seats diluted the full on GT “experience, all the moreso when I was driving the wheels off it !!
If this is to be a weekend “toy”, I’d personally want the full on GT experience that the bucket seats provide.
Food for thought ? At the very least, try a car with the buckets, they are exquisitely comfortable .... (genuinely some of THE most comfortable seats you’ll find in a car)
Your opening post stated you want to drive the wheels off the car for years to come. I couldn’t help but notice the car you’ve purchased has the Comfort seat option. Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a deal breaker, but having owned a couple of 996 GT2’s, the first with Comfort seats, the second with buckets, I much preferred the buckets, and genuinely felt the Comfort seats diluted the full on GT “experience, all the moreso when I was driving the wheels off it !!
If this is to be a weekend “toy”, I’d personally want the full on GT experience that the bucket seats provide.
Food for thought ? At the very least, try a car with the buckets, they are exquisitely comfortable .... (genuinely some of THE most comfortable seats you’ll find in a car)
Slippydiff said:
Congratulations !! With one small caveat ...
Your opening post stated you want to drive the wheels off the car for years to come. I couldn’t help but notice the car you’ve purchased has the Comfort seat option. Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a deal breaker, but having owned a couple of 996 GT2’s, the first with Comfort seats, the second with buckets, I much preferred the buckets, and genuinely felt the Comfort seats diluted the full on GT “experience, all the moreso when I was driving the wheels off it !!
If this is to be a weekend “toy”, I’d personally want the full on GT experience that the bucket seats provide.
Food for thought ? At the very least, try a car with the buckets, they are exquisitely comfortable .... (genuinely some of THE most comfortable seats you’ll find in a car)
Was you out in the sun yesterday as well?!? Whats the point in having a 'GT' experience when all the 996's are dogs, itll just be like when it snows in the north aka glittering poo ;-)Your opening post stated you want to drive the wheels off the car for years to come. I couldn’t help but notice the car you’ve purchased has the Comfort seat option. Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a deal breaker, but having owned a couple of 996 GT2’s, the first with Comfort seats, the second with buckets, I much preferred the buckets, and genuinely felt the Comfort seats diluted the full on GT “experience, all the moreso when I was driving the wheels off it !!
If this is to be a weekend “toy”, I’d personally want the full on GT experience that the bucket seats provide.
Food for thought ? At the very least, try a car with the buckets, they are exquisitely comfortable .... (genuinely some of THE most comfortable seats you’ll find in a car)
Also a 'comfort; is a good base car to start a project with, should one be inclined
Slippydiff said:
Congratulations !! With one small caveat ...
Your opening post stated you want to drive the wheels off the car for years to come. I couldn’t help but notice the car you’ve purchased has the Comfort seat option. Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a deal breaker, but having owned a couple of 996 GT2’s, the first with Comfort seats, the second with buckets, I much preferred the buckets, and genuinely felt the Comfort seats diluted the full on GT “experience, all the moreso when I was driving the wheels off it !!
If this is to be a weekend “toy”, I’d personally want the full on GT experience that the bucket seats provide.
Food for thought ? At the very least, try a car with the buckets, they are exquisitely comfortable .... (genuinely some of THE most comfortable seats you’ll find in a car)
Anyone else starting to think that Slippydiff and Porsche911R are one of the same person?Your opening post stated you want to drive the wheels off the car for years to come. I couldn’t help but notice the car you’ve purchased has the Comfort seat option. Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a deal breaker, but having owned a couple of 996 GT2’s, the first with Comfort seats, the second with buckets, I much preferred the buckets, and genuinely felt the Comfort seats diluted the full on GT “experience, all the moreso when I was driving the wheels off it !!
If this is to be a weekend “toy”, I’d personally want the full on GT experience that the bucket seats provide.
Food for thought ? At the very least, try a car with the buckets, they are exquisitely comfortable .... (genuinely some of THE most comfortable seats you’ll find in a car)
There's a bloke on the 911uk forum who's put a deposit down on a 996 GT3 with buckets and wants comfort seats.... Just saying.
Here: http://911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=129070
Anyway. Congratulations OP. That looks a lovely car. Hope you will be very happy with it.
Here: http://911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=129070
Anyway. Congratulations OP. That looks a lovely car. Hope you will be very happy with it.
Cunno said:
Slippydiff said:
Congratulations !! With one small caveat ...
Your opening post stated you want to drive the wheels off the car for years to come. I couldn’t help but notice the car you’ve purchased has the Comfort seat option. Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a deal breaker, but having owned a couple of 996 GT2’s, the first with Comfort seats, the second with buckets, I much preferred the buckets, and genuinely felt the Comfort seats diluted the full on GT “experience, all the moreso when I was driving the wheels off it !!
If this is to be a weekend “toy”, I’d personally want the full on GT experience that the bucket seats provide.
Food for thought ? At the very least, try a car with the buckets, they are exquisitely comfortable .... (genuinely some of THE most comfortable seats you’ll find in a car)
Anyone else starting to think that Slippydiff and Porsche911R are one of the same person?Your opening post stated you want to drive the wheels off the car for years to come. I couldn’t help but notice the car you’ve purchased has the Comfort seat option. Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a deal breaker, but having owned a couple of 996 GT2’s, the first with Comfort seats, the second with buckets, I much preferred the buckets, and genuinely felt the Comfort seats diluted the full on GT “experience, all the moreso when I was driving the wheels off it !!
If this is to be a weekend “toy”, I’d personally want the full on GT experience that the bucket seats provide.
Food for thought ? At the very least, try a car with the buckets, they are exquisitely comfortable .... (genuinely some of THE most comfortable seats you’ll find in a car)
lemmingjames said:
Slippydiff said:
Congratulations !! With one small caveat ...
Your opening post stated you want to drive the wheels off the car for years to come. I couldn’t help but notice the car you’ve purchased has the Comfort seat option. Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a deal breaker, but having owned a couple of 996 GT2’s, the first with Comfort seats, the second with buckets, I much preferred the buckets, and genuinely felt the Comfort seats diluted the full on GT “experience, all the moreso when I was driving the wheels off it !!
If this is to be a weekend “toy”, I’d personally want the full on GT experience that the bucket seats provide.
Food for thought ? At the very least, try a car with the buckets, they are exquisitely comfortable .... (genuinely some of THE most comfortable seats you’ll find in a car)
Was you out in the sun yesterday as well?!? Whats the point in having a 'GT' experience when all the 996's are dogs, itll just be like when it snows in the north aka glittering poo ;-)Your opening post stated you want to drive the wheels off the car for years to come. I couldn’t help but notice the car you’ve purchased has the Comfort seat option. Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a deal breaker, but having owned a couple of 996 GT2’s, the first with Comfort seats, the second with buckets, I much preferred the buckets, and genuinely felt the Comfort seats diluted the full on GT “experience, all the moreso when I was driving the wheels off it !!
If this is to be a weekend “toy”, I’d personally want the full on GT experience that the bucket seats provide.
Food for thought ? At the very least, try a car with the buckets, they are exquisitely comfortable .... (genuinely some of THE most comfortable seats you’ll find in a car)
Also a 'comfort; is a good base car to start a project with, should one be inclined
Plenty for sake on Rennlist, but carriage and import duty make them prohibitively expensive to retrofit. Far better to buy a car with them fitted (especially as there doesn’t appear to be a premium either way)
But I was genuinely shocked how much the Comfort seats had detracted from the driving experience when I bought my second 996 GT2 and it had the buckets. Though I can imagine the Comfort seats would be easier to live with if you wanted to genuinely daily drive a GT3
FWIW my wife used to whinge about the bucket seats in my old sprint/hillclimb Griff, but has said nothing about the Club Sport carbon buckets in the 997 GT3. I reckon they're pretty good and some people reckon the 996 versions were even better, although seat choice is hugely, massively subjective.
alfapork said:
And FWIW cars with carbon buckets seem to command a 3-4K premium. Which seems to be the exact price to obtain a set 2nd hand...
Carbon buckets (and I do mean specifically the carbon items) are a fairly rare option in 996 GT3’s. My first Zanzibar car had them, and whilst I’ve not checked the price delta recently, my experience over the past 12-14 years I’ve owned/bought them tells me the figure you’ve quoted is excessive.Comfort seats, highish miles and Artic Silver in a Mk 2 is a tough sale, whereas the same car in Basalt black with buckets and similar mileage is a relatively easy sale.
But none of this matters, if Comfort seats are the only way to avoid marital discord, so be it.
Enjoy the car, and I look forward to your impressions and experiences with it.
lemmingjames said:
Just tell him to f
k off and stay out of the sun 
;););)
I think you mean faaaaaaaaaark off ???k off and stay out of the sun ;););)https://youtu.be/grEggB5ghqk?list=PLFXuK40PQwf14g7...
Chris-34nmw said:
Quick question - are the rear coffin arms as standard on a 6.2 the adjustable type? Or the same as other 996 variants? Ditto on the rear toe link - adjustable/same as 996?
Thanks!
Coffin arms non- adjustable, ditto toe arms.Thanks!
Toe and camber adjustments made with eccentric inner adjustment bolts.
Definitely worthwhile fitting Cup rear toe arms to remove unwanted compliance and make adjustment easier (they’re less likely to lose their adjustment too) though for a real belt and braces approach, you can fit an inner lock out kit too.
As someone else said, welcome to the slippery slope of GT3 modification ....
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