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Originally Posted by Kelse92
My other half is a Porsche mechanic. He has a client who bought a .1 GT3RS affectionately named the "party girl" as he got a good deal buying it because it had catless headers and was not able to be sold by the dealer it got traded into.
He had some connections and bought the car "cheap" as-is and began modifying it...
He installed for him: Tractive Coilovers with DSC controller, harness bar, belts, full aero package, and 100 octane tune. Car flys around our local track (Eagles Canyon) doing 1:56's on a set of A7's (For reference, the TT3 Prepped e9x do ~2:00 laps here)
Guess what? The car is kind of a handful to drive now and all of the aftermarket bits don't fit or work perfectly and have compromises, some have broken, etc... So at the end of the day that car is mostly parked in his garage and the purpose-built factory racecar he owns is his main track car now and he enjoys it much more.
Lesson is, at the end of the day we're all building our Street cars to go on track and aftermarket parts and track abuse complicate things. It's part of the fun in making the car faster but also can be the main source of the frustration. You can avoid a lot of that with choose your flavor factory-built racecar, but those have compromises too in entry-cost and more frequent service intervals. We're all in the same boat with this hobby, the real question boils down to how often you want to go on track and how much you want to spend.  |
Well said. And a good reminder that street cars are just that, street cars. A GT3 cant hold a candle to GTD class 992 (or M3 to a M3 GT2, etc.), despite what the marketing says.