Owner Review: GT vs. Porsche GT3 RS (Long, with Photos)

[SYCO GT]

SYCO - If only for a brief respite - buy a Porsche '73 through '98 and get a feel of what the old world was like. Buy it, drive it, sell it! But you will have a bench mark for many other drives! My problem is that I can't get rid of any of them!

Thanks Gordo. I was looking at 993's for a while. I drove a few 993 TT's and C2S's before buying the GT. The prices are kind of nutty still. I wonder if they will go back down to normal levels.

 

[kosupply]

Can you give me your opinion of how the RE050 compare to the stock Goodyear tires?

As discussed many times, the Goodyears just have no grip . The car oversteers, but is pretty controllable. The wheels are 13 x 19 rear and 9 x 18 fronts , HRE comp wheels. I stuck with the stock OD so I could have plenty of tire since I was tracking the car occasionally. I have quit tracking the car now except for parade laps so I will not tear it up. I have an M3 and a Panoz GTS for the track. I tried 345/35/19's on the rear and tried 255,265/275 18/35 on the front. TOns of rear grip ...but pushes the front in corners...understeers...it is hard to get the right amount of throttle to induce oversteer with this set up. I think a 325 or 335 in the Goodyears might have brought the handling closer to neutral. I have Hoosiers mounted on the factory BBS wheels. It turns it into a different car.....all of a sudden you realize you do not have enough brakes. On our 2.5 mile track, the Hoosiers are 4 seconds quicker .....which is huge
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[ChipBeck]

That was so good.....

..... that now I feel like I don't need to experience either one of those cars.

W. Mitty,

After reading that write up I feel like I already know them. :biggrin Your thoughtful review and thorough analysis is at least the equal of and probably superior to any comparison I have ever read in an automotive publication. Thanks for taking the time to share that with us. Certainly one of the finest posts ever put up on this forum.

Chip

 

[BlackICE]

As discussed many times, the Goodyears just have no grip . The car oversteers, but is pretty controllable. The wheels are 13 x 19 rear and 9 x 18 fronts , HRE comp wheels. I stuck with the stock OD so I could have plenty of tire since I was tracking the car occasionally. I have quit tracking the car now except for parade laps so I will not tear it up. I have an M3 and a Panoz GTS for the track. I tried 345/35/19's on the rear and tried 255,265/275 18/35 on the front. TOns of rear grip ...but pushes the front in corners...understeers...it is hard to get the right amount of throttle to induce oversteer with this set up. I think a 325 or 335 in the Goodyears might have brought the handling closer to neutral. I have Hoosiers mounted on the factory BBS wheels. It turns it into a different car.....all of a sudden you realize you do not have enough brakes. On our 2.5 mile track, the Hoosiers are 4 seconds quicker .....which is huge
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Thanks for the info. I was thinking of also using the RE050 on new rims, since they are the closest to the stock diameters. If better than the Goodyears I think they would make great street tires. How is the fit on the rears? Any pictures with the 345 on the rear? BTY I agree Hoosier are the best way to go on the track. :thumbsup

 

[SYCO GT]

I come away from the exercise with only one clear conclusion: I am pretty confident that I am lucky enough to own two of the greatest road cars ever built.

Perfect review. I'm a little confused by the conclusion. I had thought that the only way to own two of the greatest road cars ever built -- was to purchase a second Ford GT. :wink

Only kidding. You are a very fortunate man. Thank you for so generously sharing the insights and experience.

 

[w. mitty]

Thank you all for your kind and very generous responses to my post. Aint it great to be a car guy and have other car guys to compare notes with?

I will write an update once I have taken both cars to the track. I’ll have the RS at open track day on March 15 at MMP in Utah if the weather holds…

There's no car like the GT and no Forum like this one:thumbsup

 

[Fubar]

Funny side note:

I went to a track event here today. I ran the GT for a couple of "charity" laps. A gentleman who I had talked to at lunch ask if he could ride along. He was a veteran of the track to he began by offering me advice about where to place the car and so on. He said he had a GT3 and ran the track often. It was cold so I did not lay in to those Goodyear's the way I might on a hot Texas summer day (I am still a little gun-shy on cold tires :ack ) but the track had one decent trait and I plowed in to the GT using all of 2nd and about 1/2 of 3rd. I was pinned to my seat (and loving it) so I know he was impressed. When we got done with the braking and turn that followed, he remarked... "I wonder if they'd give me my $200,000 back on the Porsche?"

I just smiled and told him to call Shelby. I assume at $200k he must be talking about a GT3 RS?