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Turbo Al said:
Most important in that Chris Harris review is that Thomas Wassabach, chief of the new Carrera engine development for PAG, conceded that DI could be applied to the GT1 block (of course it's "possible"), but they are touting the new DI application to the Carrera engine with extra power-presumably capable of handling turbocharging and trackworthy simply because by shaking the engine around with track-equivalent G's to replicate oil starvation factors that this "proves" the engine is up to the GT1's bulletproof standards. Do you guys really believe this? 
I am going to go out on a limb here.....
RS Tuning actually do about 97% of the testing of a "new" engine configuration on their expensive Borghi & Sevari engine dyno which after many years experience is set up to replicate severe track use. The road test once a new configuration is signed off the engine dyno is little more than a formality...
This will seem ridiculous to those used to the road "tuning" being the major part of getting the engine performing properly in road/track conditions but one has to look at the proven reliablity of RS's race engines to see that in fact they do know what they are doing and obviously CAN replicate proper track conditions on their engine rig.
I am obviously stating the above because I feel if Porsche have developed this awesome engine rig which can PROPERLY replicate hard laps of the ring with all the associated loading, lateral G and heat characteristics then leave it running flat out for 100 hours then there is every chance that they can indeed very quickly develop a successor to the GT1....
As has been mentioned their past performance (996 n/a) does not bode well and knowing how they are driven mostly by profit makes us all cynical - but it looks to me like they have the means if they really wanted to build a GT1 successor ?
That white cab looks awesome.
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