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YOUR RESEARCHMaking some mods -- now with cup holder
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I'd hate to show you up but I changed the bulbs in the lights over the license plate from halogen to fibre optic.
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It's always tough to make comparisons when you make changes because of changes in air and track surface temperatures, not to mention the size of of my attachments on any particular day.
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The real only downside to having it is if you need to replace the key and then the expense of that.
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It's always tough to make comparisons when you make changes because of changes in air and track surface temperatures, not to mention the size of of my attachments on any particular day.
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Time to get some weight off the Spec996 and make a few upgrades. Removed the dash, took out the heater box, and started clipping wires. Rear window is out and we will be putting in a lexan window next weekend. Every piece of excess metal is being removed, with the objective of losing at least 100lbs. We're having some fun now!
Yup. That's one of the reasons I thought it would be fun to start this thread.
I'm not planning to do the sunroof delete. I'll have no problem making minimum weight without doing that, and the cost is pretty high once you figure in the paint. True, it would help lower the center of gravity, but I'm not going to worry about it for now. Right now the sunroof is held in by some brackets my cage guy built.
I've not yet weighed the car with the mods, but prior to this go-round, the car was right around 2700 lbs dry with no passenger seat. I've taken out over 100lbs of junk, so I'm somewhere south of 2625 lbs with the tank on empty and the passenger seat still in the car. Once we get it all done, I'll get it on scales, and then start adding ballast. One of my objectives is to get the weight down far enough so that I can race with the passenger seat in the car. That helps balance it left to right, and makes it easier for me to instruct and race in the same car.
I'm not sure, but I do really wonder. Provided you are doing a steel replacement, you MIGHT save 10lbs, probably more like 5 by doing it. You've got the cost of the parts, the body work to cut and weld, and then the cost to paint. I'm guessing all in your looking at $1500 to save 10 lbs. Actually, since you can make weight (at least in Spec996) without doing the sunroof delete, you're not saving 10 lbs, you are moving 10 lbs. Granted it's a significant move (from the highest to the lowest point on the car), but I figure I'd rather spend the money on track time and coaching.
I'll look Sean, but I doubt that I still have it.
This is incredible:
I know that you love the whole process, but time and again, i have heard that it is better to buy the car already built by someone else, save a bunch of $$$$$- then again, not nearly as much fun to get inside with a saw or a torch. Most (some, ...me) don't want to get dirt on the inside, and you are in there with a sawzall....you are the man.......looks like your little racing problem is addictive, as CW will be behind you, putting his car on Jenny Craig, getting ready for bikini/race season (at least until he gets the weight even-then he may be sittin side by side in a cornmer with ya, as TX is only a little farther than VIR, and he is willing to head South, at the drop of a flag.........
more pix please.
Buy not build is best monetarily, particularly if you are paying someone else to do the labor. On the other hand, if you are willing to put in sweat equity, you can build at a reasonable cost. In addition, by building, you learn about your car, and you know exactly what is in it. I'm really not a mechanic type. But doing the build is just something I wanted to do both to keep the build costs down, and to learn. To be clear, I've had a lot of help along the way from real pros.
I really should repaint the front bumper cover, as it's pretty bunged up from two years of track time and a few offs. New splitter installed:
edit: BTW, those are not my tire on the rack. My mechanic is letting me do the work myself in his shop.
I think you need a cup holder, or maybe for you, a Martini serving tray.
I bet your mechanic/friend dude can find something to fabricate something suitable for you.
Awesome thread!
I used to have a magnesium cup "cage" that bolted to the roll bar a few years ago, I think I bought it at VIR? You could zip tie a liquid container, and have a silicone drinking tube come out of it. Of course I mostly used it as decoration...
Keep up the pictures.
So now you have to wonder, if you go any faster, was it the diet ? The rear window ? Your mechanic guy waving some special voodoo over the car when you weren't looking ? Maybe you scared your car into going faster with all the grinding ? Maybe the cool new carbon inside the car made you feel you could go faster ? Or maybe the cup holder, and special front grass clipper ?
Hard to tell ..............
Wow, cool to see your "other" car in its metamorphosis. Sounds like a lot of fun. Are you missing track time? It's still track season down in TX...
By the way, your old 997 is doing great - I'm going to head out on a drive in her now.
One is thru a reprogram which depending on how they decide to police the Spec 996 control units this could cause issues in tech.
The other is removing it and doing some rewiring.
Both of these have already been done.
The reprogram is out... Unless I wanted to start running Prepared.
I have been looking at the wiring as a possible solution... If someone has already tested hose waters, I would be eager too hear the direction that the traveled.
It's always tough to make comparisons when you make changes because of changes in air and track surface temperatures, not to mention the size of of my attachments on any particular day. All that said... the car certainly seemed a bit faster.
Mike made a number of little subtle changes to the car, less weight, cup holder, new rear glass, etc etc so it would be hard to notice the difference between each change and the combined change. Bottom line is less weight must be faster.
Reprogram is obviously the easiest to do, but also understandably not an option for those racing "stock" or "spec" classes.
Rewire is somewhat simple although I forgot the specifics on it now because I (atleast for me personally) determined it to be not worth the trouble that it was. Basically the alarm system is looking for a value, give it the right value when it wants it and disable system.
JR Gorden may have deleted it from his car more recently when doing a rewire for lightweight in his car, maybe he will chime in on it. John .........
For what it's worth the control units rarely go bad unless water is introduced, and it's not that big a hassle to do. The real only downside to having it is if you need to replace the key and then the expense of that. So my recommendation is keep the system, relocate the control unit to a safer,less likely to get wet area and forget about it.
Hope that helps,
Ha! Ok, how about this:
This car fecking ROCKS!
The changes I've documented here are the final development of this car, and so are incremental to what I've been doing over the past two years. As a result, the performance improvement is also incremental. But the cumulative improvement from overall weight reduction (~500lbs I think), the cage, suspension, and aero upgrades is significant. This car, with a stock 3.4l engine making 300hp at the crank, can blow the doors off of any stock NA 911 short of the later year GT3's. And I'm not so sure that with the same driver, it can't beat a late model GT3 on some race tracks.
Spec996 race cars are pretty quick.
This weekend's project was to add a little bit of color to the car. Painted the wing tips and mirrors speed yellow. New numbers coming next. Same color as the current numbers, but a bit more flash to them.
Mike- it looks great, looking forward to seeing it next weekend at TWS. We'll have 5 or more SPEC996 at the TWS club race in March. I'll have my JRZs and wing on by the end of the year.
As a young child did you always want to drive the tractor ?
If so it could explain why you are always off course cutting the grass and why you now have a race car painted John Deere colors.
Just messing with you, looks great !
Been busy over the holiday break taking care of little stuff. Made a new, bigger cool suit cooler, re-plumbed the fire system, and made the single-wiper mod.
Oh yeah, and some new numbers too...
You really want rain ??? Just completely remove the wipers and Rainx, it will rain for sure then.
And I love the rain also, it takes hp out of the picture and separates the men from the boys.
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