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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    Funny you should mention that. Surely you know manufacturers are not immune to gimmicks, advertising and propaganda. The 996 GT3 shared about 80% parts with the 996 Cup The 997 GT3 shared like 20 or 30% parts. The 991 GT3 shares almost nothing. If anything, people are getting far less of a...
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    Ok dude, I have had about enough of your condescending tone. I gave you a chance to do your homework, you clearly did not. Im in the SE. I'll meet you about half way at the NARRA VIR event in June next year and let's see who knows how to drive.... Bring a TT1 legal car with all the...
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    Automobile Mag: Snake & Stingray... stop with all the hate

    I think GM is playing on semantics. There is a huge range of "as fast as a Z06". If you look at the early runs on crappy runflats, I would say they are pretty much even with the C7 Z51, so technically they would be correct. But compared to a Centennial, Z07, Carbon Z06, no freaking way...
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    I'll raise you one........ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wkTuLjkY70
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    Well said! Good points.
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    We are not talking about race craft here, not even a sprint race. We are talking about outright speed for one flying lap. Let's stay on topic. The Porsche 7 speed manual is based on the PDK, shares some parts and is pretty much as heavy. I wouldn't want to drive that particular 7 speed...
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    SnakeBitten, I don't know their exact testing method. All I know for sure are two things. With the 997, the first generation PDK was tested head to head with the manual at the ring. Factory Porsche driver Walter Rohrl, when asked how the times compared, said "they were identical". Then when...
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    I lack real experience? You clearly know nothing about me....... 996-997 Cup Times (GTC3-GTC4) - Road Atlanta - 2 sec Road America - 1.5 sec Mid Ohio - 1 sec Barber - 1 sec NJMP Lightning- 1.5 sec CMP - (.4 sec) loss NJMP thunderbolt (no chicane) - Tie VIR - 2.5 sec Sebring 1.5 sec. Now...
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    If driving around a track were all about going in a straight line, you would be correct, unfortunately it's not. And yes you can certainly make a fast enough shift not to give the car time enough to slow down it's speed of acceleration. Fast enough not to be recognized by data systems and fast...
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    Ralph wants/needs an automatic

    I know Mercedes has some automatics with no Torque converters, in fact, they built them for Porsche which were called tiptronic. They shift fast, and are light, but as mentioned, they still sap a lot of HP. On the flip side, DCT are expensive to maintenance and repair and many times...
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    Comparing 996 cups to 997 cups to PDK generation 1,2 and PDK S is crossing a lot of boundaries. People thought the super fast shifts would amount to many many seconds on the track, turns out it amounted to very little (none actually at first). I would dare to say the gap between manual and...
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    Ralph wants/needs an automatic

    Some people won't/can't drive a stick. An auto would open the Viper up to more customers. Whether or not it's financially viable to produce both transmissions nobody knows. I'm not saying they should do it, but it's common sense that more people would be in the market. I can't imagine that...
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    My point is that it's 8 seconds at the ring from regular street tires to R-compounds and R compounds to slicks. Sorry but tire technology is not advancing nearly that fast. You won't find any R-compounds today that are as fast as slicks were 5 years ago. Not even remotely. MPSC are hardly...
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    Possible C7 Z06 detail

    You have seen two modded ZR1 motors blow up. You know that doesn't count. So like I was saying. The Z06 motors are far less powerful and more of a reliability issue. Increase power NA and increase possible liability issues. Don't see how you can argue that. Forced induction is an easier...
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    Possible C7 Z06 detail

    The ZR1 may heat soak but so do all of them. Z06's heat soak badly too. Both lose a lot of HP after a couple of laps. But you have not seen ZR1 motors letting go. Z06's still blow up regularly and are a liability. May be earlier builds or not, but you just haven't seen ZR1 motors let go...
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    Possible C7 Z06 detail

    The C6 ZR1 is a more reliable track car than the C6z. Trying to make the HP with an NA V8 and meet reliability standards would be tough. I'm hoping it NA, and maybe they make it 550 HP and lightweight. But it does make sense how they would consider FI. The ZR1 has been a huge success...
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    No, not really, when Porsche first released the PDK, they did back to back testing on the ring with PDK and the times were identical. This is a direct quote taken from factory driver Walter Rohl when asked how the times between the manual and PDK fared. His exact words were, "the times were...
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    I think everyone else is laughing that you think SRT should try and battle these cars with their budget.
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    Audi still makes a manual, BMW is bringing them back to the new M's. The manual isn't going to die any time soon. Porsche will see the light and follow the same course. Watch.
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    New car has not proven as fast without aero, different testing conditions, different drivers, different circumstances. Plus Laguna is not much of an aero track, the Nurburgring has many more parts that will be aided by aero. Give Randy Pobst a 2010 Gen IV ACR, a private test day at Laguna...
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    Gen V has it's work cut out for it at the Ring...

    That's an awesome video from Mclaren!
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    These cars were in development long before the acr set the ring record. It takes many years of planning to put a 1m super car together. An acr is hardly going to incite mega manufacturers to build a 1m car to beat it. Especially when they are already selling more units of slower than acr...
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    Now at least some people are thinking rationally. SRT will not be able to steadily keep pace with the relatively unlimited budget of million dollar supercars. They are on too small of a budget to keep up with the technology available to these other cars. Once they get in that fight, the same...
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    The anomaly is not going to help sell the non anomaly. IMO the anomaly will have enough trouble selling itself for 200k. Porsche didn't have any problems selling the regular GT3 or the 3.8 RS when the 4.0 came out. The other cars will have to sell themselves. Which is why the TA should have...
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    Gen V ACR Needed For Ring Time

    The GT3 RS 4.0 is an anomaly. The regular RS is a 150k car, the 4.0 was 185k msrp, and it wasn't at all expensive because of performance. They built that car to homologate the 4 Liter motor for FIA racing as a requirement. The market for the limited production run and last of the legendary...

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