CloseHi all,
An engineer from Porsche Stuttgart of the chassis development department has just told to my brother that this new 911 version is being tested nowadays with an awesome 620 Hp engine!!! When he told me that i couldnt believe it! Porsche dont usually make this incredible power increase... !! but...:D!
good news..
cheers
Apr 27, 2009 11:18:19 AM
620PS is too much unless they restrict the torque to ~750NM..... the GT2 is very well balanced and too much torque will ruin this balance (IMO) and it is unlikely that Porsche will produce a car like this, they have never done before......
Also to get to over 600 real Porsche PS would require some special intercoolers (I know that Porsche engineers consider 600PS the maximum with their current intercoolers) - Porsche have not used anything special like this since the Secan on the 993GT2 EVO race cars, and they are unlikely to do so again because of the cost....
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2009 997 GT2 RS Tuning 542PS/736NM
Apr 28, 2009 7:52:00 AM
The most obvious element which throws doubt on Porsche producing a very powerful GT2 is the limitation of the stock intercooling. It is now pretty well known that the GT2 in its 530PS trim is producing high intake air temperatures and is near the limits of its standard intercoolers.
We know that Porsche likes to produce engines (GT ones at least ;) ) which can maintain ther rated hp under track conditions so to increase the power for a GT2 "RS" to anything much over 550PS would require some serious hardware in the intercooling department and the cost of which Porsche bean counters would not pallette IMO with sophisticated intercoolers costing north of 5K Euro....
Some interesting sound bites on this topic in the link below
http://excellence-mag.com/art1/art1p1.html
So my guess is if Porsche do produce the GT2 RS it will have a solid 550/560PS be 50kg lighter and a sharper chassis in which guise it will be a ring meister.....
2009 997 GT2 RS Tuning 542PS/736NM
If Techart can do it why not Porsche?
http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/249466/
http://www.techart.de/no_cache/en/news/news/article/ueberzeugende-persoenlichkeit.html?tx_ttnews
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"Form follows function"
scubywrxr:
I get what you saying but then how can they make the claims of 0-200kmh in 9s and 0-300kmh in less than 25s is its not producing at least 600bhp?
If you read the other thread you will see that people are accepting the 620PS, looks like the OP was correct all along - a welcome change of direction from Porsche
2009 997 GT2 659PS/827NM DIN
nberry:
At the end of the day, product improvement is driven by competition. We all should thank Nissan, GM and other car manufacturers for getting Porsche off its cavalier smug ass and producing a product worthy of the Porsche name and legend.
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couldn't have said it better myself
nberry:
At the end of the day, product improvement is driven by competition. We all should thank Nissan, GM and other car manufacturers for getting Porsche off its cavalier smug ass and producing a product worthy of the Porsche name and legend.
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Well said! 
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