987.2 track/race car

[Toppy]

Hi all,

 

I'm new to the forum and Porsche ownership in general. Things escalated pretty quickly from buying a Cayenne family hack a few months back, to then picking up a Cayman only a few months later.

 

I've spent years doing track days and racing on and off, and a good friend of mine has spent the last few years building up this Cayman, but needed to shift it to free up some capital, and knowing the parts on it, it felt too good an opportunity to pass up, even though I wasn't really in the market for anything quite like this at the time.

 

The Cayman is somewhat faster than the monster 70bhp Porsche liveried machine I've been racing for the past few years:

The car is pretty high spec already, and was built along the lines of the Cayman Interseries in the US. Currently the spec is:

 

RSS control arms, lower control arms, toe + bump steer kit, RSS adjustable caster

Yellow speed coilovers with customer spring rates + values

GT3 master cylinder

GT3 brake ducts

DS3000 pads

Porsche Motorsport GT4 clubsport wheels & Pirelli Trofeo R tyres

KMP steering wheel & paddles

GT3 throttle body

IDP plenum

200 cell cat

Supersprint exhaust

Remap

Stripped & caged, with bucket seats & harnesses

 

 

 

 

 

 

As a proposition it's a lot more serious than anything I've owned, tracked or raced before so it'll take a bit of dialing myself in. I took it on it's first trackday at Snetterton last month, which was a bit of a baptism of fire given I was on semi-slicks and it was wet all day, moving so a drying line in the final hour. To say it was a lesson in gradual throttle application would be an understatement! Nonetheless, the car felt great and was very easy to understand what it was doing (mainly spinning its wheels). Noise was a challenge on drive-by, even with additional silencers, so that will need a bit of sorting out. I was concerned about the car being PDK rather than manual, but it is simply not a challenge so far, the up and downshifts are fast and really give a race car feel.

 

 

 

From here the plan is to finish race preparing it. That will mean removing some more bit, fitting bonnet/boot pins, dorr cards, extinguisher install, livery, then a trip to the rolling road to see what it's putting out - it's estimated at 370bhp so I expect I'll run it as a Class A car (300bhp/tonne) in one of the 750MC or BRSCC series, and then developing the car from there. 

 

[yuffyhaggo]

Very cool Toppy.

 

I have a 987.2 and have a mildly dreaming idea that one day I might be able to race it (it's my Nurburgring car at the minute). How did you get on in EnduroKa I am looking to take part in a few rounds this year.

 

If you need an extra set of hands at a meeting at Brands I'd be happy to pop up (I'm only 10 mins away)

[Toppy]

Thanks. You're welcome to come down to the EnduroKa at Brands - it's late October this year. It's always cold and miserable but we love that round as it's day/night, and we normally get Nick Tandy come and race against us (and teach us all that we're crap). 

 

It's surprisingly fun as a series. We've done it for 3 seasons now, and are just a group of friends who bought a car after a night in the pub and prepared it ourselves. Despite the lack of power and speed the cars are fun to race & we just have a great crack going away for the weekend and giving eachother s**t over the radio. If we do well, then it's an added bonus. 

 

We're racing at Silverstone this weekend, which will be live-streamed here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD_0w5hQttc. Shout if you've got any questions, happy to help.