laxmax613
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Deep snow? I wouldn't take out any GT-model out during winter at all.
this is the only real porsche i'd take out in the snow
Deep snow? I wouldn't take out any GT-model out during winter at all.
I notice one of the cars pictured has the center hubs, another not.
23hp more than the standard Carrera 2S? You could probably with a chip that should be less than $2k.
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/04/12/francois-delecour-manhandles-rally-handles-a-gt3-rs/
Notice the crunching noise that starts about 5 minutes in. That's the sound the front lip makes when it scrapes. This is a perfect example of Porsche's design intentions for this car. While on other similarly capable cars, scraping the front lip means cosmetic damage and an expensive replacement (potentially of the entire front bumper), the front lip on the GT3 RS is an easily removable part. It costs less than a set of brake pads and can be swapped out at home easily.
Drive it. Hard. Drive it every day. Love it. That's what it's for.
How is a GT3 different than any other 911 in the snow? It's just a car. It has four wheels. It drives in the snow. What's the drama? Porsche build these cars to be driven, and people who own them do that. Are you suggesting that a person needs to be a "rally legend" in order to drive safely in bad weather?you'd either be stupid or simply too damn rich to take a thing like that out in the snow.
Not a chance. A full monty intake/exhaust/chip for a 997 will run you at least 6K and probably even all of that won't get you to 23hp. Chip alone will hardly do anything. Porsche don't leave much on the table with the "S" cars. The X51 powerkit (a $17K option and how they're getting you the 23hp in the GTS) includes different engine internals and a different header, in addition to intake, exhaust, and ECU programming.
There really aren't any options for cheap/easy power gains in a 997.
They drive cars in Norway? I always assumed they traveled like this:
http://img222.imageshack.**/img222/5018/motivationalposterbearcxn5.jpg