by "2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered" (2fast2furiousfc3s)
Published 08/04/2017 at 16:39
by "2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered" (2fast2furiousfc3s)
Published 08/04/2017 at 16:39
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What’s you preference?
I’m more of a flatnose person, even though they are both awesome
"gawdzillla" (gawdzillla)
08/04/2017 at 16:45, STARS: 0
930
but 993 > * (thats another story)
"aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe" (emaxxbl)
08/04/2017 at 16:45, STARS: 2
930 because
s n a p o v e r s t e e r
"Tareim - V8 powered" (tareimgaml)
08/04/2017 at 16:45, STARS: 2
isn’t the 930 the slantnose? that’s how I’ve always seen it referred to as
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
08/04/2017 at 16:46, STARS: 3
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
08/04/2017 at 16:46, STARS: 3
Username checks out.
"2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered" (2fast2furiousfc3s)
08/04/2017 at 16:47, STARS: 0
It’s both,“Flachbau”means both
"2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered" (2fast2furiousfc3s)
08/04/2017 at 16:51, STARS: 0
Dats not flat. But I do still like it...
"crowmolly" (crowmolly)
08/04/2017 at 16:53, STARS: 0
930. Preferably 87+.
"LongbowMkII" (longbowmkii)
08/04/2017 at 16:54, STARS: 2
Flip lights >*
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
08/04/2017 at 17:05, STARS: 1
I hate both
"Blondude" (Blondude)
08/04/2017 at 17:07, STARS: 2
997
Alternatively, 935
I can’t say I’m much of a fan of the road-going flatnose cars. Unless we’re talking about those road-legal 935s. Those are nice.
"Wagonlife740" (wagonlife740)
08/04/2017 at 17:32, STARS: 1
This is the best one.
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
08/04/2017 at 17:36, STARS: 1
That cherry red thing was built by Porsche’s own Sonderwünsche (“special requirements”) department for Mansour Ojjeh, of TAG fame, back in the days of McLaren-Porsche in F1.
"chaozbandit" (chaozbandit)
08/04/2017 at 17:40, STARS: 1
930 just oozes more cool
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
08/04/2017 at 17:42, STARS: 1
The flatnose body, the 959 “squashed” front and all the 911 front bodies since the 993 have the same function: avoiding the aerodynamic “trough” between the two headlights of the original 911. Not a problem when going fast on a straight, but on long fast sweepers a sudden gust of wind on the side of the car would destroy the flow in it and create unexpected lift on the front axle. Not nice.
That’s also the reason for the flat nose louvres behind the headlamp pods (reducing the air pressure under the front axle)
"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee)
08/04/2017 at 17:44, STARS: 0
They’re both equally bad looking.
"Die-Trying" (die-trying)
08/04/2017 at 18:23, STARS: 1
i likes me a 935......
but those 939...........
"daender" (daender)
08/04/2017 at 18:34, STARS: 1
You read my mind, bravo for scoring appealing pictures to go with your statement!
"Maxima Speed" (maximaspeed)
08/04/2017 at 18:35, STARS: 1
964 Flatnose for sure.
"kanadanmajava1" (kanadanmajava1)
08/04/2017 at 21:05, STARS: 2
The original “flachbau” is still the best looking.
"Blondude" (Blondude)
08/04/2017 at 22:02, STARS: 0
And that black thing is the only road-going 935 K3 Kremer ever built. Walter Wolf special ordered it, because of course he did .
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
08/05/2017 at 04:39, STARS: 1
Wow, thanks for the link. I knew already about Wolf’s Countach, but certainly not about his “road legal” K3.
I wonder if the author’s description of that Countach is accurate. “Rear suspension essentially lifted off the F1 cars”. Really? I understood that the in terms of looks and chassis development the LP400S was in fact the production version of the earlier“Wolf” cars. At the time Wolf ordered them, the Countach was still the slimline (and a damn sight more elegant) LP400.
To fit the P7 tires –so much wider and lower in profile– to the 400 chassis Dallara had to change somewhat the suspension –including hub carriers and pick-up points, and the specs of coils, dampers and rollbars– but its basic layout remained the same. Arguably the Countach LP400 already had an extremely advanced suspension and not far removed from what was being used in F1 at the time. (Maybe he is in thinking or implying that the rear suspension of the Wolf Countach and the Wolf F1 cars were the almost the same, but the Wolf GP chassis was by Postlethwaite, not Dallara.)
Lastly -
Moby Dick
was
specifically
the nickname for the 935/78 and subsequent copies and had never been used before for the 935. Anyone who has seen the pictures of the 935/78 testing at Paul Ricard, with just white paint and a couple of stickers and that outrageously long, lithe body knows why the Porsche mechanics started calling it that way. Other than the
Moby Dick
and its replicas, 935 have always looked quite stumpy.
See photo below, most likely outside the Weissach R&D/competition centre:
Found here
http://gtxforums.net/showthread.php?650-pic-twitter-com/page132
, but it seems it is a factory picture. (Maybe by the great Norbert S himself, who is very much into photography.)
I almost laughed at “the various endurance classes they raced in, mostly IMSA GTX and
Group5/76
" but I’ll let it pass. Obviously he’s never heard of the Kremer-Loos wars or, indeed, the DRM, either.
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
08/05/2017 at 08:46, STARS: 0
bottom one
"Goggles Pizzano" (gogglespizzano)
08/07/2017 at 03:26, STARS: 0
Why not both?
:-)x