Yep, I love that idea too. Having done a lot of racng in water cooled cup cars I've become a little worn down by their running costs. They are spectacularly fast cars - at many circuits we are quicker than the front running British Gt cars - but they are full on gt race cars and everything is 'lifed' from engine hours to bearings. although as a gt engine the GT3 lump is very cost effective, it still needs a rebuild at 50 hours and the sequential gearbox at least once a season. I know of some carrera cup drivers that need 2 gearbox rebuilds a year at 10k plus a pop. A set of michelin slicks are good fpr an hour's running at full pace and cost £1100 a set so you start to get the idea. A small budget for carrera cup is the thick end of 120k, many are spending 150-200k. These cars are brutal to drive and statipherically expensive to run. What I love about the 993 is how close the cup version of the car was to the RS clubsport. There is very little difference between the cars and the engines and drive train's are nowhere near as stressed as the new generation of cars. This makes them so much cheaper to run and as a result a viable track tool. what I like more than anything else about the car is that you can enjoy the performance on the road as well as the track without the need to be at the end of the performance envelope. They are just lovely to drive at any speed. The problem is that RS and RSR's are becomming so valuable in thier own right that there is an argument that they are no longer track viable. My car is a possible altenative solution to a driver who wants the tactile nature of the 993 on the road yet decent track performance without risking an RS on the circuit. I'm not sure how viable the excercise is to be honest. My car has a 3.8 motorsport barrell and piston conversion, RS crank, shrick cams, solid lifters, pro track dampers, super cup solid top mounts and springs, solid engine and subframe mounts, plastic side glass with sliders, recaro race seats, 6 point matter cage, harnesses, motorsport abs unit, removeable wheel and electric power steering. To build a car to that spec would cost a lot of money but it is on the extreme end of the performance window. We decided to leave the enigine at 300 bhp as firstly BHP gains are very expensive but more importantly it would greatly increase the tyre wear rate which kind of works against the whole point of the excersise. Anyway, as i said it will be interesting to see how it pans out, i'm looking forward to it.
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