Privately Owned Le Mans Legend Porsche GT1 Was Peak Porsche Racing in 1997 

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And boring, I wouldn't want to work there.

@@SporeZoo I'd work there.

@@sixfootfourmike How will you do this....i mean...actually this looks like a surgery

I see what you did there 👀

Haha good one

"and here you can see the double wishbone suspension grafted onto the 993 front end"

what he said

I'm pretty sure this is the video that its mentioned in, toward the end after they pull the rear cowling off. And yes I know... JRZzzz's not JRE's... Ok so I got a bit of brain bramage, what can I say, don't bump your head. Here's the video-> m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zJh56kVtX8U.html

Definitely a last minute addition LOL. The early bodywork looks so much better IMHO, including the sides and rear.

Not exactly. The GT1 featured 2, one-piece, three-cylinder banks that were liquid cooled and 2, one-piece, 3 cylinder heads, also liquid cooled, with normal head gaskets. A one-piece cam-box was outside of each head. The GT1 crank case wan't liquid cooled but was oil-cooled, more than adequate even in one-piece cast crank and cylinder engine blocks. In contrast the 956 liquid-cooled 4 valve cylinders were 3 separate items on each side, the liquid-cooled head and air-cooled cylinder for each piston, electron beam welded together. No head gasket, no limit to boost pressure. Liquid cooling jackets were later attached to the outside of the cylinders. External hoses and pipes carried the coolant to each cylinder / head and then collected them. A common cam box sat atop the 3, separate, cylinder assemblies, for each side of the engine. Marvels of racing technology, but not steps toward a production, liquid-cooled, flat 6 engine. 956s had 4 valve, liquid-cooled heads, and put the driver's feet ahead of the front wheel centerline. 962s started with 2 valve, air-cooled, heads and lengthened noses with the driver's feet behind the front wheel centerline. Since the GT1 had an air-cooled-style crank case, it was necessarily a dry-sump engine, like any air-cooled Porsche flat 6. It had a large, external, oil tank. The 996 featured an integral oil sump below the crank-case, causing some people to poor-mouth it as less advanced. I'm unlikely to own either, but it seems to me that the 996 is closer in spirit to the 901 dry sump crankcase than the wet-sump VWs I've owned, air or water cooled.

@@wbaiv very interesting. Thanks for the clarification. The 959 shared it’s water cooling technology with the 935 Moby Dick race car as well if I’m not mistaken which ran a water cooled 4 valve head but retained an air cooled crankcase. I don’t know what caused more controversy amongst Porsche purists, when they created a production water cooled 911 (996) or when they began building a SUV? Both proved to be some of the best decisions in the company’s extensive history. Porsche has been a leader in innovation and design since Dr. Ferdinand Porsche first started designing. The electrification of Porsches heading into the future is similar to the water cooling controversy, soon all models including the 911, will be purely electric and will change the company forever. Personally I hope gasoline powered Porsches stick around for a while longer. But I guess the change to all electric is inevitable.

The GT1 has liquid cooled, 4 valve per cylinder heads. The 956 and 959 started life with 4 valve, liquid -cooled, heads. The 962 started life with 2 valve per cylinder, air-cooled heads. The 956 and 962 chassis were designed for ground-effects and featured large diffuser tunnels starting behind the engine and rising on either side of the transmission. The GT1 is flat-bottomed until the rear wheel centerline and has a modest, full-width, diffuser, behind the rear wheel center line. 956 was designed with the exhaust and compressor turbines and air-to-air intercoolers at the outside edges of the car's body. The GT1 puts the power and compressor turbines right next to the exhaust manifolds of the motor. The flat bottom hides all the structure complexities.

Sleeper??

@@explosivehotdogs yeah how people would you know it's a sports car?

@@RX7ZER it's a Porsche 911 GT1...? It raced at Le Mans? What is your definition of a sports car?

German style cleanliness ! : )

I might be first

Perhaps

That was the GT1-98. Very different car.

He's young and new. Be kind

He did good, what is your problem?

Enthusiastic and eager to learn, which is always good, but in his eagerness messed up a lot of the bits of history or just jumped in way too soon ahead of Joey.

Odd, his style isn't much different than Larry's style and he's universally adored. I thought he did a great job

He did great, kept it going and had lots of extra input to add. No reason to rain on someone starting out so harshly