Good display of politeness there MKSGR. I don't see where I called anyone a liar, I did say RUF were wrong in the data provided, which I sustain to this point. No big deal. As to calling me an ignorant and rude, I will leave it up to the others on the board to decide who is and who is not.
I am interested in this debate and will support my ignorant point of view below with facts and data and leave subjectivity out of it. I hope you can do the same.
To the rest, I apologize for taking this from a hijack to a plain thread execution but I am sure you can understand that I need to address certain statements that were made and that are, *in my opinion* (disclaimer) , incorrect. Since the thread seems to have died somewhat.
The original question was whether RUF can shave off 2 seconds from a 0-300kph run by using shorter gearing. While no specifics were given, I would assume that we are talking about the usual 6th gear ratio alone. What only matters is to find out whether the 0-300kph can be achieved in 23 secs by changing 6th gear or not, and as a bonus, what sort of distance would it need to cover the 0-300kph with 1) stock gearing, and 2) with shorter gearing.
See below what the RT12 does with stock gearing, I hope this clarifies it all. Stock gearing being 0.79 6th gear (997 TT), reaching a top speed of 330Kph with 305/30 x 19 tires and a 7200RPM limiter, all of which are based on the tested car. You can see the distance covered through the red line (the scale is on the left) and the speed at which the car travels on the blue line (scale on the right). Do not try to cross reference speed and distance against each other since the scales are not in sync, but rather each against time and then against each other. i.e. Starting from 100Kph, and after 9 seconds, the RT12 will have run ca 420 meters at a speed of 225kph.
Therefore the RT12 needs ca. 21 seconds to cover 100-300Kph, and a distance of 1315 meters. (Autobild Magazine 21.4s.)
Since 6th gearing will come into play after 250Kph, it is irrelevent to look at data before 250Kph so I will compare runs from 250-300Kph against each other to zoom in more into the data and make it easier to read.
Here is the zoomed graph showing 250-300Kph with stock gearing as above. Speed 250-300 Kph, time is about 9.2-9.3s and distance covered 709 Meters. The reason the blue line drops downwards during the shift is because of wind resistence, having a negative -1.49 m/Sec Sq. impact on the car's movement during the ca 0.45 seconds it takes to shift from 5th to 6th. at around 270 Kph.
And here is the data with shorter gearing. The gear used is the shortest possible while allowing for the Rt12 to still reach 300Kph, which is a ratio of 0.87, permitting a max speed of about 303 Kph. Anything shorter than this will not reach 300 Kph.
The data is as follows for the shorter gear:
250-300Kph in ca 8.5 seconds, distance of about 650 feet.
And here is the difference between both runs:
As you can see the best possible performance gain is about 0.75 seconds with shorter gearing, and the distance covered will be reduced by 60 meters during that time difference. This is perfectly consistent with my earlier statements, that in order to achieve a 2 second reduction in its 0-300Kph run, the RT12 would need to cover the distance in about 150 meters less. In any case that assumption is impossible according to this data, since I a have used the shortest possible gear ratio, and not getting close to the 2 seconds stated.
This data has also been simulated by my personal performance model, however, unlike the data posted before, it has been cross checked and validated with real datalogs of a Porsche car running slightly better times than the RT12, up to 250Kph (Graph and data all available to share). The rest (250-300Kph) is very easily extrapolated, since all the datapoints from 100-250Kph have been extremely accurately calculated by the model with variances (vs. real datalogs) in speed and distance being around 0.2% from 100-250Kph.
I have also shown earlier real data comparing several runs from different cars at different speeds and distances and all what is posted is very consistent.
If there is any mistake in the data, I will be happy to correct it.
Obviously all this data takes into consideration all the parameters impacting acceleration such as gearing , engine, aerodynamics, and many motion dynamics formulas, some of which were posted before by AAH.
Ready now for the next round of insults!