If you have a 997 GT3.....
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The BEST thing you can do is get the LSD rebuilt with motorsport plates and 40/60 ramps!
Its night and day better! The car is SO much more planted on acceleration and the instability on heavy braking has now gone!
Bang-for-buck the best mod you can make!
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Its night and day better! The car is SO much more planted on acceleration and the instability on heavy braking has now gone!
Bang-for-buck the best mod you can make!
... Here ends this public service announcement...
Upnorthgt3 said:
How much for the shocks and diff then?
Diff price is above and shocks were around £2500 fitted. If you are going to do both then I highly recommend getting the LSD done first and then the shocks and geo as obviously the geo may (will?) be affected when the LSD is removed and refitted.
hondansx said:
Can i ask about the downsides of the new LSD? If it's that great, why did it not make it to the road car?
same reason passives don't or monoball rear toe links etc etc.people love OEM but one can always make a car much much better, just it seems many in the UK don't, and say "Porsche knows best" and end up driving an unsteering mess !
I never know if to laugh or cry at peoples cars on here who stay oem for ever but say they are true car nuts !
It's great to see a car fan make changes and enjoy the car.
hondansx said:
Can i ask about the downsides of the new LSD? If it's that great, why did it not make it to the road car?
I can't see any downsides so far as my existing diff was shot. You may see a little more front-end push depending on your driving style but the 40/60 ramps are relatively benign and turn-in is not adversely affected (for me).The original diff was a 28/40 ramp, which quickly changes to an open diff once you do a few trackdays as the plates are relatively poor quality. The Motorsport diff plates are steel with a plasma coating. The standard diff plates are brass.
I guess Porsche thought an electronic application of the rear brakes would make a good (crude?) replacement for the poor standard diff!
Porsche911R said:
same reason passives don't or monoball rear toe links etc etc.
people love OEM but one can always make a car much much better, just it seems many in the UK don't, and say "Porsche knows best" and end up driving an unsteering mess !
I never know if to laugh or cry at peoples cars on here who stay oem for ever but say they are true car nuts !
It's great to see a car fan make changes and enjoy the car.
All depends on the Marque as to the attitude to OEM or not, many Porsche owners tend to be blind to the world of modified cars...every now and again a 911 owner gets the shock of his life from a modded Ford, VW, something Japanese etc and just can't accept it lolpeople love OEM but one can always make a car much much better, just it seems many in the UK don't, and say "Porsche knows best" and end up driving an unsteering mess !
I never know if to laugh or cry at peoples cars on here who stay oem for ever but say they are true car nuts !
It's great to see a car fan make changes and enjoy the car.
hondansx said:
Can i ask about the downsides of the new LSD? If it's that great, why did it not make it to the road car?
In my view there is a down side, and that is with the bigger ramp angles and beefed up plates the car will push more at the front end in tight corners this comes more apparent on wet tarmac.. in the dry there is enough play on the sway bar settings to stop this but on a wet track I haven't been able to dial this out yet.Gassing Station | 911/Carrera GT | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff