The 718 GT4 might be arriving sooner than you think!
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Posted by someone on RL earlier today:
"Got to see both the Spyder and GT4 test cars in Atlanta yesterday up close during testing. Learned:
a. the CS engine capacity is 3.8L to comply with class displacement requirements mostly and that the street car will be larger and definitely N/A (I could have been told how much bigger but then they would have had to kill me).
b.-The exterior detailing is pretty much like the test mules that have been pictured so far and the aero bits are identical to those on the CS pictures that we have seen on the forum.
c.-The mules had the same GT4 wheels of old (bet they will be a new design at launch).
d.-The rear wing fits the car much better in person that it looks in pictures.
e.-It seems that the US car will sound better than the euro because we dont need the particulate filter in the exhaust
f.-Launch is due for Geneva, or so says the local cleaning lady......
Cheers"
"Got to see both the Spyder and GT4 test cars in Atlanta yesterday up close during testing. Learned:
a. the CS engine capacity is 3.8L to comply with class displacement requirements mostly and that the street car will be larger and definitely N/A (I could have been told how much bigger but then they would have had to kill me).
b.-The exterior detailing is pretty much like the test mules that have been pictured so far and the aero bits are identical to those on the CS pictures that we have seen on the forum.
c.-The mules had the same GT4 wheels of old (bet they will be a new design at launch).
d.-The rear wing fits the car much better in person that it looks in pictures.
e.-It seems that the US car will sound better than the euro because we dont need the particulate filter in the exhaust
f.-Launch is due for Geneva, or so says the local cleaning lady......
Cheers"
JAhmed said:
a. the CS engine capacity is 3.8L to comply with class displacement requirements mostly and that the street car will be larger and definitely N/A (I could have been told how much bigger but then they would have had to kill me).
Not sure which class regulations that would be? GT4 doesn't have a maximum capacity limit and the Aston/Merc engine is 4.0L twin turbo. So if there was a capacity limit, a 4.0L NA in the Porsche would be well below what the Aston/Merc would be if you apply the usual 1.4x equivalency factor for forced induction (5.6L) and significantly smaller than the Jag engine which is 5.0L SC or 7L equivalent!Fokker said:
My German shot-putter masseuse told me that the 3.8 engine is lighter hence they're using it instead of the new 4.0.
How much extra does 200cc weigh? Not a lot I would have thought , the pistons are alloy and you loose some metal in the block!It makes no sense to me to have two different engines,I can only see them going 4.0 as marketing or a way of maintaining power with the GPF.
GT4P said:
How much extra does 200cc weigh? Not a lot I would have thought , the pistons are alloy and you loose some metal in the block!
It makes no sense to me to have two different engines,I can only see them going 4.0 as marketing or a way of maintaining power with the GPF.
people always said the 997.1 engine is sweater than the 997.2 engine In the GT3 models.It makes no sense to me to have two different engines,I can only see them going 4.0 as marketing or a way of maintaining power with the GPF.
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