Some Porsche Videos

Have a look at this small collection of Porsche turbo vid's I have just found on Youtube.

Top Gear road tests the 911 turbo 3.6 (same as mine)


Modded 911 turbo road test


A very quick lap of the nurburgring in a 964 turbo 3.3 (long)


Peak hour at the ring in a Porsche 935 racecar (long)

First time at the track with the turbo

After owning the Porsche for almost 1 year, i have been hanging out to get it on the track!!

Well my chance came a couple of weeks ago, when i entered in an Inter-Marque Duel car sprint track event at Manfield Autocourse (about 2 hours North of my home). This is where two cars pair up and race together, and several pairs of cars are set off 10-15 seconds apart.

Great fun! and an excellent chance to push the car far harder than possible on the public road - and see what it can really do ;-)

Sitting on the dummy grid just after a run

It was great to see how the car handled when at the limit, when driving well within the limits on the public road it seems to have sooo much grip, this is a different story when on the track and going much harder through corners. If you get on the gas too early or too hard on corner exit, It Will loose traction!! (Yes i had a couple of moments) ;-)

I totally recommend anyone owning a performance car should get it on the track at least once to fully explore the potential and traits of your car in a safe/legal enviroment.

(More pics to follow soon)

Porsche Club Trip to Nelson

Me and my partner have just got back home after attending the Porsche Club NZ's SWOTY, Southern Weekend Of The Year.

We live in Wellington so we loaded the car and ourselves aboard the Cook straight ferry on Friday lunch time and headed for Picton. Once docked in picton we had a nice 90 minute drive through some of NZ's best wine/grape growing country with our final destination being Nelson. Where we were to meet up with other club members for a weekend packed full of eating and drinking ....oh yeah...and a few miles behind the wheel, winding thru some of the lovely senic spots the Nelson Region has to offer.

There was a wide variety of Porsches ranging from early 356's right thru all models off 911, including a very cool '73 RS clone (with a 3.6 964 engine) a handfull of boxters, a sole 968 and a new Cayman. About 40-45 cars in total.

We took the long and scenic way back to the Picton Ferry via the Queen Charlott Sounds.

All and all a great weekend meeting up with some cool people with similar interests, some quality time in the drivers seat on some great driving roads, and what better excuse to get the car out and clear out those cob-webs. ;-)

Clint.

Some more pic's from the weekend.

Porsche Sunday drive group

Myself and a few others meet up as regularly as we can and get our cars out of the garage and go for a casual drive and blow the cob-webs out of them.

All Porsche's welcome!

Drives will generally entail getting out of the City and going for a spirited cruise and meet up for bunch/lunch mid way, then take the long way home ;-)

Keep an eye out for one of these cards (below) under your wiper soon!

PS. I'm based in Wellington City.

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My 911 turbo

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1993 Porsche 911 turbo 3.6 (Model type 965)

This was the very last 911 turbo with rear wheel drive only and large single turbo charger (after this model the 911 turbo became 4WD and with twin smaller turbo's)

The last of these "Muscle car" 911 turbos are described by many as "Beasts" and in the past have been nic-named "the widow maker" due to their savage acceleration and tail happy tendencies.

In reality however, its not all that bad in my opinion, and i believe the earlier 911 (930) turbos were far worse with their horrendous turbo lag, and light-switch power delivery.

The '93 turbo 3.6 was the first ever production Porsche to come with factory fitted 18 inch dia 3 piece wheels (made for this model by Speedline) and the now lengendary "Bid Red" brake calipers. The 965 turbo 3.6 was only made for a very short period of time, with only about 1,000 examples being produced, and only 83 in right hand drive like my example. With only 8 of this model residing in New Zealand, it is a very rare site on NZ roads and generally attracts a fair amount of attention.

In 1993 when this car was new it was well and truly a "Super Car". With performance stats like 0-100kph in 4.5 sec's and a top speed of 180mph it can still be classed as that today! The new selling price of NZ$300,000 sure reflected this tho!! That was a absolute truck load of money in 1993.

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