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NXI20 said:Roro said:Hmmm... Not sure if this has been covered anywhere already... But why isn't anyone buying up Cup cars and converting into road legal track cars. Why doesn't anyone seem to be doing this, are there technical reasons that make the cost prohibitive? (But even that's relative now, we're talking 997.2 RS's at +£150k, so a £50k Cup care wouldn't cost £100k to make usable on the road... Or would it...?)
Define "usable".
Have you ever been in a Cup car? It's incredibly noisy, even with a helmet on (no carpets or sound deadening at all), cold in the winter & boiling in summer (no heating or A/C). It has no handbrake. The suspension is incredibly stiff & as all race cars have a hard life, anything worth converting (ie. not shagged) would have a sequential 'box which needs a rebuild measured in 10s of hours. The engine develops very little power below 4K RPM & similarly needs frequent rebuilds. Added to which, the clutch is a bit binary so driving it in traffic becomes almost impossible. Added to which you'll need to carry a laptop to start it as you need to change maps on the Motec once it's warm. Cup cars are reckoned to cost about £1K per HOUR to run.
And once you've done all that, you'll arrive at a circuit on road tyres :floor:
NXI20 said:... Dear Santa.... Please can I have a riviera blue 997 Cup car.... With lots of alcantara inside... :grin:
Yes you can: you start buy buying mine & then put it on a major diet & trim weight from everywhere you can. Eventually you will arrive at something like Ade's (keepitlit) 996 RS which is as close to a Cup car on the road as is practical. He trailers it to circuits
Roro said:I didn't actually say that I was thinking of doing it myself, the question was purely hypothetical 8)
NXI20 said:Roro said:Hmmm... Not sure if this has been covered anywhere already... But why isn't anyone buying up Cup cars and converting into road legal track cars. Why doesn't anyone seem to be doing this, are there technical reasons that make the cost prohibitive? (But even that's relative now, we're talking 997.2 RS's at +£150k, so a £50k Cup care wouldn't cost £100k to make usable on the road... Or would it...?)
Define "usable".
Have you ever been in a Cup car? It's incredibly noisy, even with a helmet on (no carpets or sound deadening at all), cold in the winter & boiling in summer (no heating or A/C). It has no handbrake. The suspension is incredibly stiff & as all race cars have a hard life, anything worth converting (ie. not shagged) would have a sequential 'box which needs a rebuild measured in 10s of hours. The engine develops very little power below 4K RPM & similarly needs frequent rebuilds. Added to which, the clutch is a bit binary so driving it in traffic becomes almost impossible. Added to which you'll need to carry a laptop to start it as you need to change maps on the Motec once it's warm. Cup cars are reckoned to cost about £1K per HOUR to run.
And once you've done all that, you'll arrive at a circuit on road tyres :floor:
I have yes, but it wasn't moving.... Or even switched on for that matter! Ok, so a little more to it than I thought then :grin:
NXI20 said:... Dear Santa.... Please can I have a riviera blue 997 Cup car.... With lots of alcantara inside... :grin:
Yes you can: you start buy buying mine & then put it on a major diet & trim weight from everywhere you can. Eventually you will arrive at something like Ade's (keepitlit) 996 RS which is as close to a Cup car on the road as is practical. He trailers it to circuits
I meant 'the other' Saint Nicholas :floor:
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