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    01-Jul-2006 16:27:45

    RCA
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    Look who I met...

    ...on my way to the Rennteam Summer party around Stuttgart area, Mr. Ruf personally. He showed his thumb up to me after a few acceleration runs. From aprox. 90 kph to 190 kph, he moved ahead half a car length and I had additional weight onboard, my wife (60 kg). At a speed over 220 kph, he started to pull away strongly, at 300 kph on the speedo, he was already aprox. 100 m ahead of me. It was a RT12.

    01-Jul-2006 16:28:59

    RCA
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    Re: Look who I met...

    At the beginning...

    01-Jul-2006 16:34:19

    Dan L
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    Re: Look who I met...

    Excellent! A good excuse for a little burning of carbon off the valves...

    Dan

    01-Jul-2006 17:24:57

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    Re: Look who I met...

    Great cars,

    Both his AND yours. I believe the RT12 can be ordered for up to 650 peak HP/870Nm peak torque (I think the engine goes under quite a bit of re-building), good for a top speed of 219mph/353kph. It uses KKK TT's, so 0-100kph times might be slower than yours, but at the top end, boy, that RUF keeps pulling. In short, pretty cool pair of 911Turbo's.

    01-Jul-2006 17:39:22

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    Re: Look who I met...

    How did the Ruf sound?

    01-Jul-2006 18:11:07

    BiTurbo
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    Re: Look who I met...

    Very Nice!

    Which Digi cam are you using ?

    01-Jul-2006 18:13:39

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    RC isn't today the day of your big test? Can't wait to hear the results. Good luck!

    01-Jul-2006 18:17:57

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    Re: Look who I met...

    Quote:
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    RC isn't today the day of your big test? Can't wait to hear the results. Good luck!



    They were probably drinking and marveling over each other's watches and mobile phones, in place of everything else. Wait until they sober up and realize they forgot to do the shootout .

    01-Jul-2006 18:34:09

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    Re: Look who I met...

    Awesome! RT12 is a beast. I should be at Ruf-Automobile for our annual concours/tour of the facility July 8th. Alois Ruf is a very humble person and welcomes anyone to his facility...of course I don't have the funds to treat the 987S to a 3.8 w/ power kit swap.

    01-Jul-2006 19:55:09

    xandi911
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    ahhhhhhhhhh! just incredible!
    this RUF = 650HP ? so much stronger than TT ?
    RC and you with the bug in your BOOSTER?(stronger than a normal TT)

    02-Jul-2006 00:49:02

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    Re: Look who I met...

    Quote:
    RC said:
    ... and I had additional weight onboard, my wife (60 kg).



    My, my, Christian.

    Does your wife know you post such things about her

    I'm absolutely certain that the extra 60 kg you quote included her luggage as well. We know how beautiful you say she is

    02-Jul-2006 01:43:20

    ADias
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    Re: Look who I met...

    Mike: you shouldn't say that... 60kg is a slim/healthy body weight.

    BTW, I rely on your marvelous V1. It has saved me and earned its cost many times over

    02-Jul-2006 01:46:50

    xandi911
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    Re: Look who I met...

    Quote:
    W8MM said:
    Quote:
    RC said:
    ... and I had additional weight onboard, my wife (60 kg).



    My, my, Christian.

    Does your wife know you post such things about her




    02-Jul-2006 03:58:46

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    Re: Look who I met...

    What a road and to think you have no speed limits it does not get better than that

    02-Jul-2006 07:40:54

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    Re: Look who I met...

    Exellent!!!!!

    Those kind of surprises are great..

    02-Jul-2006 14:40:11

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    Re: Look who I met...

    great cars...but 100 meters ahead?????amazing.. i wish i could go 300kph with my wife next 2 me...she would kill me..
     
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