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[st-anger]

Originally Posted by gucom i can tell you quite precise when developement of the 997 started: right after the 996 launch, and developement for the 998 has already begun... must be busy at porsche....

are you talking with me...????

...as i said many times, IT´S BUSY AS HELL here at the EZW, but who cares, IMO it´s the best job in the world...

[st-anger]

guys, i´m off to Finland now, take care....

[fedezyl]

Off to finland...mmm testing some AWD system, that Cayenne you were working on I guess, anyways, enjoy the trip!

[st-anger]

Originally Posted by fedezyl Off to finland...mmm testing some AWD system, that Cayenne you were working on I guess, anyways, enjoy the trip!

you´re right, we´re in the middle of nowhere here, it´s just one big garage here rented by PAG every year for cold weather testing, and it´s REALLY cold here, fucking cold, -30°C is standard here...
we´re here with 955 and 997 modells, mainly for driveline setup, we´re nearly working 24/7 i´m already really exhausted due to the bad weather conditions, you´ve to concentrate a lot more every road is full of snow and ice up to now it´s been snowing the whole time, the 997 even had to quit testing for some time due to the loads of snow on the streets...
so we can´t really enjoy mother nature, it´s hard work to keep the cars on the road at that speeds, but it´s definitely an experience here...
thank god i took my computer with me, we´ve got NOTHING here, just some fine cars, lot´s of work and snow snow snow....
hope i´ll have the time to get back to JW soon...

hope that my wife already booked a holiday somewhere in the Caribbean area...

[1zippo1]

Damn, amazing story st-anger. I can believe those conditions are really hard for you to work in. But at the same time, this really is supercool IMO! Testing those sportscars in those conditions... awesome. Good luck in Finland, hope everything goes well!!

[coombsie66]

I think u r in need of some thermal electric heated underpants st-anger!! U stuck any part of urself to one of the cars yet!?? Thats always a problem in the extreme cold!! bye bye skin!!

[TT]

thank god i took my computer with me, we´ve got NOTHING here, just some fine cars

WTF?!?!? "Just some fine cars"? You are describing heaven dude!!!!!!!

[scubywrxr]

I hope that the prototypes have heated seats as std...

[yg60m]

Have nice "holidays" St-anger !

[fedezyl]

hehehe, so I guess where we need to go now to look for some Spy Shots of the 997 and the 955 hehehe

I know what you mean, it must be physically exhausting with all that snow and cold, but I bet the little bit of adrenaline you get from driving in the snow/ice will keep you warm for a bit..heh

Hope you're enjoying yourself!!

[Fleischmann]

O man !! You gotta tell us what driving the 997 is like !!

[scubywrxr]

Its probably the same as the 996 with added refinement and better midrange grunt!

[TT]

To come back a little... about the very nice CGT engine scale model... the auction will end today in some hours.. sadly as I was expecting, it is going pretty high.. I was ready to bid up to around 100 USD, but it already went higher than that sadly

[DMbaseball1604]

So do we know what kind of engine the new 997 is going to have, because I thought I remeber reading somewhere that it was going to be a 5 liter inline 8 with around 500 bhp...

[st-anger]

- Porsche GT3 RS Supertest –

after my test drive I immediately knew that this one´d be a “real” Porsche again and the Sport Auto Supertest proofed that…

Nordschleife:
7.47min ( GT3 RS )
7.54min ( GT3 )
7:46min ( GT2 )
7:56min ( 360 CS )

Hockenheim:
1.11,8min
1.13,2min
1:12,6min
1:13,0min

0-60mph:
4.2sec
4.6sec
~4sec
4.4sec

0-125mph:
13.5sec
14.8sec
12.4sec
15.5sec

max. lateral accerelation:
1.3g
1.25g
1.35g
1.3g

aerodynamics:
front:-19kg, rear: +25kg
-13kg, 0kg
+2.2kg +7.5kg
+10kg -21kg

max. speed at NS ( Döttinger Höhe ):
173.91mph ( 280kmh)
168.95mph ( 272kmh )
176.4mph ( 284kmh )
168.32mph ( 271kmh )

max. deceleration: ( PCCB´s )
12.8 m/s^2
9.3 m/s^2
10.7 m/s^2
11 m/s^2


slalom 36m:
83.2mph ( 134kmh )
80.75mph ( 130kmh )
79.5mph (128kmh )
80.75mph ( 130kmh )


switching over lane ( 110m ):
93.17mph ( 150kmh )
92.55mph ( 149kmh )
95.65mph ( 154kmh )
88.2mph ( 142 kmh )


testing conditions:
( no infos on RS yet, but´ll follow as soon as I know ´em…)
air: 14°C, tarmac: 16°C, barometric pressure: 1021mbar
air: 16°C, tarmac: 18°C, barometric pressure: 1011mbar
air: 19°C, tarmac: 17°C, barometric pressure: 1014mbar

result:
65 of 70 points ( GT3 RS )
59 of 70 points ( GT3 )
42 of 42 points ( they changed the points after the GT2 test to 70 )
59 of 70 points ( 360 CS )

64 of 70 for the BMW M3 CSL… 8)


more infos and hopefully a scan of the article´ll follow soon, i´m sorry but i´ve no time right now for all this… :roll: