XPGT2....as a new guy w/ some impressive looking cars and racing experience, tell us about yourself and more importantly your cars (which look very nice, btw).

Start another thread, if you wish.

To the OP, keeping a GT2 fairly stock and working on your driving skills at the track is not a bad game plan.

 

New on 6Speed but have been on rennlist for 5 years as 85gold. I came to 6speed as it seem to have a better 996GT2 forum, which is my new TOY

As for LSD the one in my 996GT3 didn't last 3000 miles and the rebuild didn't last much longer. I will admit that a good portion of the 25,000 miles I put on the GT3 were on an AutoX course.

As a driver I consider myself average but I have a kid, Ian Stewart, who knows how to wheel a Porsche. I am owner, crew chief, small$$ pocketbook, and setup guy for the GT2.

Peter

 

Totally agree...

As a driver I consider myself average but I have a kid, Ian Stewart, who knows how to wheel a Porsche. I am owner, crew chief, small$$ pocketbook, and setup guy for the GT2.

Love it ^^^ "Speak softly and carry a big stick"

 

+1

Although I agree with most of the stuff laid out in this thread, I respectfully disagree with the above comment. If the GT2 "isn't anything special", then Michaelangelo's David is a big hunk of marble with a couple of chisel marks.

The GT2 is singular in the car world. As a recent "rookie" owner myself, I'll state there's nothing else like it. It's light, Spartan, loud, and very, very exclusive. IMO, the 996 GT2 is the one true "man's car" built by Porsche in the water cooled era.

Buy it, drive carefully, use common sense, take it step by step. After 5 months of ownership and 3000 miles, I'm just now beginning to feel comfortable thrashing it around. And man, it sure feels great!

 

Thanks to everyone for their input, much appreciated. I'm going to take my time with this purchase, one of the GT2s I was excited about prospect wise has turned into a bit of a dud so its out of contention. We'll see what shows up for sale in the next few weeks. One positive note is there's not a line of gang busters out there looking for exactly the same thing I am; on ebay using advanced search every 996 TT listed (and GT2s as well) had went unsold, not that that tells the full story but it makes it look more promising that I can sit on some of my prospects while waiting for a better option to reveal itself.

I'll probably grab my pit crew and try and get a test drive locally in a 996TT to test out the real world'ness of the rear seats for short trips.

Thanks again guys, much appreciated.

 

LOl Peter, we are amongst the very few to say that, but I can assure you, we are both CRAZY AS FUG I think my car's a little puppy dog, but we drive the hell out of them

To the OP.. Most people will shun your decision, and well, when I was young I started out with the faster car's for the inexperience and did just fine, but seriously a GT2 is in another realm..

Really depends what you will be doing with it, if on the track learning it's limits and character that will be much better then on the street tooling around, as it will get you into trouble fast, not even being cliche saying that, it's true!

 

Peter.. My car does that but only very few times on the track, and usually it's late in the session when i'm doing hard hot laps when those tires start cooking.. How can I accurately know? My car has 33k miles on it, it may have been replaced/rebuilt 15k ago when I got it from RUF or even before but I don't know?? How can I go about rebuilding it to the cup specs?

Edit: Just saw you are 85gold over on Rennlist, welcome man, you better come to Minticello with that beast, I miss seeing it around VIR when I go with Matt driving it lol !

 

Quick and dirty LSD check. Both rear tires off the ground, car in neutral turn 1 wheel and see if the other wheel turns the same direction = good. If it doesn't turn then bad. I wouldn't be surprised if RUF installed an upgraded LSD. When I got mine from Matt @ 7000+ miles it was shot.

Monticello is a go.

Peter

 

Okay cool i'll look into it... Overcooking the tires can provide a similar effect right?

See you at Monticello, as it get's closer i'll give you my number so we can chat