Video: Porsche 911 GT3 RS will get no turbo

Posted on 23-07-2014 at 19:55 by CasperH – 21 Comments”

Unless Porsche is the ultimate game of hide-and-seek with our plays, this is the new Porsche 911 (991) GT3 RS. With turboheupen, but without turbo.

We have this thing now for a number of times over but, as seems certain: this is the new Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Reason to doubt this were, until recently, the “turboheupen” that the mule fitted has got: two hand holes above the rear wheels indicate normally on a turbo-equipped 911. However, if we carefully at this video of local ‘Ringkoning Dale Lomas listen to it we hear nothing on a turbo is pointing. Yet, we see the koelopeningen in the rear fenders. Oh my god, the puzzles! Now, those holes can then for two cases.

First, there is the possibility that the additional holes for the cooling of the atmospheric block. This block is expected to be about 500 hp are going to deliver. Now is 500 hp quite a lot from an atmospheric six-cylinder boxer so very strange is it not that there are more cooling is needed. Also the extra koelingsopeningen under the rear window will be there not for nothing.

A second possibility (which seems more likely) is that the openings of the air intake of the engine of fresh breath. Porsche uses the same kind of openings on the 991 GT3 RSR racer, who is also without a turbo. Chances are that Porsche is the same principle now also on the GT3 RS is going to apply.

Furthermore, we can clearly hear that this mule has a PDK gearbox. That in itself was no news, of course, but the purists will sneak a little tear that manually bakroeren (or stir-fry, if you will) is no longer possible. There are, however, vague rumors that a manual gearbox is available, but as yet is not confirmed. We have also still no picture of a GT3 RS mule with manual gearbox by the way, if this rumor is true, it is therefore currently unclear.