O Porsche MAIS RADICAL...

[Cassadoure]

The Porsche 911 GT3 RS is no longer the most track-focused street car from Stuttgart's rear-engined fellowship. This is.

It's a one-off built by a company called Orbit Racing that takes the aesthetics and most of the mechanical gubbins from the 911 RSR - the same car that raced in this year's Le Mans 24hr - together with kevlar arch liners, new wheel wells, diffuser panels and a bucket load of splendidery to create one of the hardest street-legal racers ever.

Using a MKII GT3 RS as the foundation, Orbit sourced parts directly from Porsche's race car and then bolted them on. It keeps the 435bhp 3.8-litre flat-six but cozened the 911 RSR's exhaust and had its ECU tinkered to digitally create more horsepower. Underneath, the suspension has been reworked to Nurburgring-winning racer specification, so with that inordinately large wing on the back and trick suspension, this thing's likely to stick to the track like a melted Haribo.
But don't think that the owner is just going to take this on the track. It has maintained a lot of the sound insulation so that it can also be used daily and has been spotted regularly on the street.







... e depois veio o 4000 e a seguir? O que virá??
Não percam as cenas dos próximos capitulos!

[Cassadoure]

Porsche : The ultimate street racer


Breathtaking: The GT3 4.0 has the largest engine in any factory Porsche 911. </B>

the most extreme street-legal Porsche racecar, powered by the largest engine to grace the rear-end of a factory 911, will become available in Australia late this year, each priced at more than $400,000.

The special-edition Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 Coupe will be limited to a production run of just 600 units globally as a swansong for the current-generation 997-series 911.

The RS 4.0 is the ultimate naturally aspirated 911 road car.

Taking the relatively new GT3 RS Coupe to even greater extremes, the 4.0 – as its name suggests – employs a variation of the 4.0-litre boxer six from the 911 GT3 RSR racer to deliver an astonishing 368kW (500hp) at a heady 8250rpm (350rpm higher than the GT3 RS’s 3.8-litre flat six) and some 460Nm of peak torque 1000rpm earlier at 5750rpm.

Borrowing the RSR’s crankshaft, forged pistons and titanium conrods not only makes the Porsche Motorsport-developed flat six the most powerful naturally aspirated 911 engine ever, but gives the RS 4.0 a specific output of some 92kW per litre, which at 125hp/litre easily breaks the magic 100hp/litre mark once achieved by few road cars.

The wildest GT3 road car’s 368kW output betters the ‘garden variety’ GT3 (320kW/430Nm) and piping-hot GT3 RS (331kW/430Nm), and even matches the peak power – but not torque – of the force-fed flat-six in the 911 Turbo and the twin-turbo V8 that powers the Cayenne and Panamera Turbo models.

Porsche says the close-ratio six-speed manual-only GT3 RS 4.0 is almost as quick as the 911 Turbo too, with claimed 0-100km/h and 0-200km/h acceleration of just 3.9 and 12.0 seconds respectively, depending on its (variable) gearing.

Perhaps more importantly, with lightweight racing suspension components, carbon-fibre sports bucket seats, bonnet and front guards, a plastic rear window and “weight-optimised” carpet limited the two-seater’s kerb weight to just 1360kg with a full tank of fuel, Porsche says the RS 4.0 can lap Germany’s famed 20.8km Nürburgring-Nordschleife road course in just seven minutes and 27 seconds – down from 7:33 for the GT3 RS it replaces on the Zuffenhausen production line.

While Porsche stresses this is not a final figure, that is already more than 10 seconds quicker than the comfort-oriented 911 Turbo (7:3 and less than 10 seconds slower than Porsche greatest Nurburgring performer, the 911 GT2 RS (7:1.

It also betters the 7:32 time of the ‘standard’ twin-turbo rear-drive GT2 RS and falls only three seconds short of Nissan’s giant-killing GT-R (7:24), which infamously battled with Porsche for top Nurburgring production car honours last year.

The purest 911 road car ever produced also eclipses the price of every other Porsche model – including all Panameras and Cayennes – except the 911 Turbo S Coupe and Cabriolet and range-topping 911 GT2 RS .


All examples are painted white with red bonnet, roof, mirrors and body-side pin-striping to “emphasise its dynamic stance and link to 911 racing cars” and are also differentiated from lesser 911s by “precision aerodynamic engineering” headlined by new lateral front air deflector vanes that make their production debut on the last 997-generation 911.

Dubbed “flics”, Porsche says they increase front downforce and, combined with large, steeply inclined rear wing with side plates, create positive rear downforce of 190kg at top speed.

Naturally, the RS 4.0 also features even wider wheel tracks and lower ride height, with additional ball-joint and a revised versions of Porsche’s Active Suspension Management system bringing the GT3 RS 4.0 closer to the set-up of the wild GT2 RS than the regular GT3 RS.




Vamos todos (com especial enfoque para o Zico) ficar à espera do novo GT 3 para então podermos discutir se é melhor, pior, mais bonito ou mais feio e , ESPECIALMENTE, se é mais ou menos radical que as gerações anteriores.

[Diácono Luís]

Bolas...

[tex]

Este também é radical e único, na minha opinião a transformação estética foi bem conseguida

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Muitas fotos de todo o trabalho aqui:
http://www.worldcarfans.com/11201063...ts/lowphotos#7

[zico]

Tópico Aberto originalmente por Cassadoure

[B]
Vamos todos (com especial enfoque para o Zico) ficar à espera do novo GT 3 para então podermos discutir se é melhor, pior, mais bonito ou mais feio e , ESPECIALMENTE, se é mais ou menos radical que as gerações anteriores.

São sempre melhores, mas infelizmente cada vez menos radicais.

[Fuchs]

O azul vive em Riviera Beach, FL, USA, onde o dinheiro manda!

[Cassadoure]

Tópico Aberto originalmente por Fuchs

O azul vive em Riviera Beach, FL, USA, onde o dinheiro manda!

...Então achas que é só nos States que o dinheiro manda???
Eu era capaz de apostar que ele "manda" é no mundo inteiro; e cada vez manda MAIS!!!
Um grande abraço!

O que eu não era capaz de fazer para poder conduzir um 935 destes:


Ou um 934 destes: