I’ve been neglecting the updates to this blog lately. Will post details soon on what’s been changed this year. Spherical rod end rear toe links Solid control arm bushings (trailing arm connection) front & rear New spring / shock setup Porsche GT3 upper spherical bearing mounts Porsche GT3 Recaro race seats New 81mm Pro Race Series…
996 Track Prep – Race TiresOriginally uploaded by apex944 Yes they fit. I get this question a lot. The car is lowered to stock GT3 ride height. With OE GT3 wheels, no spacer and 315/30-18 Pirelli Corsa race rubber I have had no problems at all with rubbing. They do not stick out beyond the…
Dei Weiße 911’s Originally uploaded by apex944 Beautiful day, new race rubber, and a full tank of high octane fuel. Summer time @ Beaverun Motorsports Complex. A great group of students showed up and we had a blast instructing them at the track today. The new Pirelli PZero Corsas really transformed the car. The old…
And you thought this blog was dead, no? There are a few more mods planed for the old 996 this season. It’s time to get rid of the old seats and put something in that will give me the support and control I need now that the car is cornering and braking better. Keeping with…
OK this is hardly a performance mod but I was getting tired of looking at the worn out paint on my OE hood and engine decklid release levers. So when I stumbled across yet another cheap find on EBay I snatched it up. It is a black on black set of release levers and the…
OK this week we spend a little more time on the brakes. Last time we improved the ability to cool them… now we can try to push the braking system a little harder. I hope the ABS cooperates! We’ll know soon enough as our next test day is at the end of July. So, one…
Earlier we installed GT3 brake ducts to improve cooling. (Shown at left above) However since we drive pretty hard on a regular basis (while instructing at BeaveRun) it has become appearent that still more cooling could be used. This really came to light after we started running Pirelli Corsa track tires and began generating much…
OK so we’ve had this GT3 like, mk1 Aerokit rear wing sitting around for months and finally have found some time to paint it and get it installed. This is an OE factory Aerokit wing found, like the other items, on ebay. It’s made in a small town in France right on the German border…
Now that the GT3 wheels and track tires have been on the car for a while it was time to take a good look at the alignment. So we headed over to our friend’s shop who has a hunter machine. After taking a look we discovered the rear toe was off and that the camber…
We’ve been running the stock mufflers / exhaust system on this 996 ever since we tried the muffler bypass pipes. Those pipes were fine for the track but we just too loud for a daily driver. So when the opportunity came along for us the grab a set of Fabspeed mufflers we took it. Nice…
We found a set of mk1 GT3 wheels from a bloke on Rennlist. (If you dont know about www.Rennlist.com, its the oldest and perhaps best Porsche owners forum on the web) I say mk1 because these wheels are 8″ wide in the front. Later GT3 used the exact same style however the front wheel width…
While we had already installed slightly wider Carrera 2 wheels on our 996, they still did not ‘fill’ fenders completly. Maximizing the track of the vehicle is almost always a benefit to handling plus a wide stance just looks better and is in keeping with our project’s purpose of making our 996 as much like…
In order to dial out some of the understeer of our 996 an adjustable H&R rear sway bar was installed. We left the original front bar alone as a larger front bar would just bring more understeer back into the equation. Removal of the original rear bar is simple and straight forward on the 996.…
A quick, easy & inexpensive upgrade. The front brake ducts off a 996 GT3. The 996 GT3 brake ducts have been altered to improve ventilation and therefore brake cooling. They are similar in size to the original 996 stock ducts, but these have more aggressive grooves to direct air more effectively to the brakes. There…
The most obvious change in the transformation from a standard Carrera 2 to a GT3 look-a-like is without doubt the Mk1 Aerokit. The deep spoiler, side skirts and conspicuous rear wing totatally transform the look of the 996. Below are a series of photos showing the progress. All work was done in house. The mk1…
Here are a few pics of an early mk1 GT3 that I found on a German website. This car looks very much like what we had in mind when this project started.
As part of our gearbox and slave cylinder replacement a full fluid purge and refill with ATE Super Blue Racing fluid was in order. Therefore no time better than the present to take the opportunity to adjust the parking brake as well. Adjusting the parking brake on the 911 is similar to other drum brake…
Text will be added later – New Slave Cyl – Rebuilt Gearbox fixed pinion whine – New SACHS clutch. The 6 puck SPEC was grabbing & chattering
Found a GT3 Aero Kit! The Carrera 2 and the GT3 share the same basic chassis & suspension. It’s the gearbox and engine that really make the GT3 shine. The early 996 GT3 (which was never sold in the USA) had a ‘body kit’ installed from the factory which was also available on the 996…
The amber turn signals were delivered on the earliest Bosters & 996 cars. Personally I dont like them at all. I like the new 997 headlights as they look more “classic 911” however this is a 996 so we’re stuck with what we have. What we can do however is swap out these old faded…
I was lucky enough to find that “The Racer’s Group” had just posted a set of the later model tail lights on their website. Something they had taken off a 996 shell for conversion into one of their full on race cars no doubt. It gives the rear of the car a nice updated look.…
Monday, Project 996 was back on track as ACS owner Bill Sulouff was instructing at the BeaverRun Motorsport complex. The corner weighting, pressure adjustments and the ride height adjustments which were carried out last week all made a positive improvement on the 996’s handling. The cars seems to be handling about right now for a…
Monday is another track day at BeaveRun where Bill will be instructing so we spent a little time on the 996 this weekend attending to some things that were still not optimal. First off the brake pads that had been on the car for the first track day proved to be insufficient, fading after only…
You think the shifting of your 996 is already as good as sports cars get? Think again! We just installed a B&M shifter into ACS Project 996 and wow, what a difference. The shifting has gone from excellent to ‘PERFECT’.The shifter is supplied with everything needed to install plus the included B&M instruction manual which…
We had a BMC panel filter laying around unused so we popped it in this weekend. This filter has a very nice soft silicone type seal all around the edge. This filter appears to be very similar to the excellent “Green” Brand filters we recommend. Great fit, quality materials, recommended. Later we will be installing…
Never been a big fan of the “Twist” wheels found on the early 996 cars like ours. They are relatively heavy and also narrower than some of the other wheel options. We’d love to put a set of BBS LM wheels on the car but at $1000 each that’s not going to happen soon. We…
Somewhere I read “All Porsches are Race Cars” Well I dont know about the new Cayenne but for sure the Porsche 911 has won more circuit races than any other model of car I can think of. How would our’s fair on it’s maiden voyage to BeaverRun? Since I was instructing I did not bring…
Since the ACS ‘Club Sport’ 996 was scheduled to hit the track just days after taking delivery we pretty much had to “run what you brung”. Fortunately we were able to “bring” the H&R Adjustable Coil Over suspension that the previous owner had so kindly installed for us! But we wouldn’t track a car without…
Before the ACS 996 even got to our shops it was being modified. As soon as we found the car and made a deposit, the fingers were flying on the keyboard searching for bits to add to the car so that we could begin getting it ready four it’s first track day. Bill was planning…
We searched for a few months lookng for a used 996 C2 Porsche that would fit a couple of simple criteria. Affordable – Car needed to be under $25,000 Since this car was going to primarily be a show case for ACS products and was also going to be our street/track car there was no…
So what’s this all about? It’s about the impressive Porsche GT3 Cup cars that we can’t afford to drive everyday…. so why not take an affordable 996 C2 and modify it (within reason) to arrive at a comfortable yet formidable weekend club sport type toy… One that can still be driven to and from the…
