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These both popped up on my feed tonight.

C11 at La Sarthe, or 767B at Spa?

Former for me please

I possibly prefer the first vid but that could be down to the time of year, could well be different if it was warm and dry and light outside. Would need to see both cars on both circuits to narrow it down.

Enjoyed this.

767 is overrated. Doesn’t sound nice, just stupidly loud. Wasn’t that fast, only won because it was more reliable.

I get that they look CAF, but think they’re a bit over hyped…

The long tease has begun, I don't know if its a 2024 or 2025 car and from this it just looks like a larger version of the M3 Touring, but with a hybrid drivetrain.

I think that is going to be a disappointment after the M3 Touring. The new 5-series is the first one I have no desire to have based on looks alone, and Autocar’s full road test of the i5 doesn’t make it sound anything more than average.

If you don’t want to sit through all of it, do at least watch the end where the army take their vehicle down the course.

That half hour flew by Order of want would probably be Renault, Subaru, Lada.

That sounds like a lot of expensive work. I don't know if I'd do it but maybe having done it now the second one would be less costly to do. Getting a standard 996 up to that bhp would cost a fair bit - especially if starting with a fecked engine - so maybe it isn't too bad in comparison.

nuttinnew wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:03 pm That sounds like a lot of expensive work. I don't know if I'd do it but maybe having done it now the second one would be less costly to do. Getting a standard 996 up to that bhp would cost a fair bit - especially if starting with a fecked engine - so maybe it isn't too bad in comparison.

Wouldn’t you just buy the more powerful 911 variant in the first place….

Jobbo wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:08 pm

nuttinnew wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:03 pm That sounds like a lot of expensive work. I don't know if I'd do it but maybe having done it now the second one would be less costly to do. Getting a standard 996 up to that bhp would cost a fair bit - especially if starting with a fecked engine - so maybe it isn't too bad in comparison.

Wouldn’t you just buy the more powerful 911 variant in the first place….

If buying a complete car in the first place maybe, but a turbo is 4wd and auto and a GT3 40-50k more than that. For a Carrera with good engine there's always supercharging.

Not all 996 Turbos are autos, and I imagine removing the front driveshafts is a lot easier than getting a 991 engine to work in a pre-Canbus 996. You could make a ghetto GT2, or a widebody Turbo GT3-alike.

To be fair, Jethro and Iain Litchfield do say in the video that they wouldn’t do it again

Jethro has got quite a bit of content out of that car which would soften the blow.

If he'd rebuilt the existing motor as an M96 3.7 he'd get similar power and saved probably 5 figures in set up and integration labour but that wouldn't have been interesting enough for the story aspect.

996's seem to have come into vogue and they seemed to have started to creep up in value.

Jobbo wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:08 am To be fair, Jethro and Iain Litchfield do say in the video that they wouldn’t do it again

Yep, kinda makes the "would I?" moot
What would you have done it had been your car and the engine was fubared?


Jethro mentioned not liking the sunroof so - as he's so far into it now - I expect this is on the to do list; https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266427492541 ... Sweo1lEy3O

I’d have done what Carl says - rebuild it as a more powerful version.

Fair enough if it's rebuildable, I thought Jethro's had failed badly enough to be scrap though. I can't remember what's made me think that so freely accept I could be looking at this from the wrong angle

Do we all know about the guy who's rebuilding the famous wet Veyron? 3 parts so far.