GT4 RS - any information from OPCs?

[Twinfan]

How can putting a 500PS GT3 engine and shortened gearing be the wrong direction? I'd take a brand new almost-basic car at £110k over a used £150k 991.2 GT3 any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

It won't be quite as a quick as a GT3, but it was never going to be for hierarchical positioning reasons. What it will be is a hoot to drive I'm sure!

 

[Porschaholic]

Yet another GT4 RS review but worth a read because there are some interesting technical points raised in an interview with A.P.

https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/cayman-gt4/204349/its-official-porsche-718-cayman-gt4-rs-revealed-with-gt3-engine

For those hoping for a manual RS Touring: “that’s a 718 GTS 4-litre” says Preuninger.

Jeff

Thanks for sharing that link. Interesting read. I’m particularly intrigued by the last sentence - “the end is nigh for mid engine Porsches”!

 

[Motorhead]

Yes Sonny, there were some interesting snippets in the piece, especially those around adapting the 992 GT3 engine for the mid-engine layout. The fact that in 2017 they had a 981 running around with a 991.2 GT3 engine which required substantial changes to the BIW to fit the dry sump’s oil tank shows that the GT4 RS has been a long-running project. Add to that that the system was redesigned for the 992 GT3 engine with a more compact, composite tank, enabling the engine’s use in both cars and - perhaps more importantly - for the race car which most likely was a major factor in justifying the development costs for the RS.

It’s an open secret that the next Cayman is going to be an electric vehicle for which the term “mid-engine” becomes irrelevant, so the last sentence to which you refer is hardly news to most of us on here. The biggest question is exactly how long will 718 production continue given that, unless they’ve been very well disguised, we haven’t yet seen any next-generation mules out and about testing? If RS (and presumably all 718?) production will run for 2.5-3 years, most likely we won’t be seeing its replacement until the end of 2024 for MY 2025, maybe even later. That’s quite a long time, so will the 718 get some sort of minor cosmetic refresh before then?

Jeff

 

[MrDemon]

I can only see one TB on the cut always so must be 991.2 GT3 engine, not a 992 ?

lot of marketing hype about CUP cars but as we know that's all bollocks. It's nothing like the Gt4 race car or the cup cars, even the GT4 race are is £50k more money and that's subsidised ! Porsche need to stop dicking about with GT RS products and give us a more track focused one with proper brakes, shocks, seats and 5 wheel bolts per wheel, will the GT4 RS even have adjustable rear toe link lol ?

these cars are TOO heavy with substandard brakes and parts now but for top money imho. Great cars modded BUT MR is not legal in the UK but is for the whole of Europe.

you want to track any of these cars hard you have to spend another >£40k !!!!!!! great cars then but as it stands today these are all just road cars (and not great at that job) which you can take to the odd track day and nothing like what Porsche marketing say they are.

rather they charge £200k and make a proper one with a warranty.

 

[Twinfan]

It's the 991.3 GT3RS/Speedster engine, now modified so that it fits both the 992 and GT4RS, with individual throttle bodies:

"Developed in Flacht, at home on the open road: the 4.0-litre six-cylinder horizontally opposed naturally aspirated engine with six individual throttle valves."

https://www.porsche.com/uk/models/718/718-cayman-gt4-rs/

 

[MrDemon]

I don’t believe any thing they say regarding finder details.

as the 992 unit is different to the 991.3 unit Anyway. so it cannot be the same as both !

all marketing bull**** And who cares really ? It’s down on power and torque so it don’t add up Either.

fastest car in gear is still a manual 991.2 GT3 funny enough, less drag, no PDK Bhp losses and less weight. Prob the only modern car people will want to keep for ever also, no OPF, and a short ratio manual box, also sounds the best bar none. If I were only a tad richer I would keep mine and just spend the £40k on it to remove the cheap crap on it . No better modern drivers car on the market at any price point imo. Sadly I am not rich, so bloody annoying lol

not a 992 fan either, hate the inside and they have really detuned the manual version of the 992 vs the PDK car so you need to have a PDK 992 GT3.