Lucky Buyers: 4.0 Spec Thread- What Is Yours?

[Trackrat]

Looks like I got lucky and found an allocation (at MSRP). Those of you ordering one, what is your spec?

After a few times doing this I hope I finally get this one perfect (for me)

My use will be 90% track and 10% street so that means what is right for me may look a lot different than for someone else. And yes, I can feel a difference of 40 lbs in the handling of the car, thank you very much. And I appreciate now more than ever the devotion to weight reduction by the designers and engineers of the 4.0. I want to honor that effort.

With that said:

White
White wheels (for the two minutes they are clean it will look awesome)
Red/black interior
Radio/NAV Delete
Lightweight headlights
A/C delete
LiON
Sport Buckets
Leather interior (7 lbs more weight but so much classier)

Would love to go black exterior but with no A/C I would roast alive.

[TRAKCAR]

Im just dreaming of a 4.0, so allow me;

For 90% track and 10% street:
As you spec it but I would black out the interior, uncluding black seat belts. Add white roll bar and black 6 points. Leave A/C in, or it will be 100% track. You can always take it out. No leather. Too hard to clean after spinning and does NOT belong in a Trackrat's Trakcar, plus you already have a blinged out baller GT2RS ;-)

For my daily driver it would be:
Delete and add nothing.
White, silver wheels, all black inside.

But please drive and beat the living daylights out of it for max depreciation, I'll take it when you sell it in any combo you order it as long as I can put the A/C back in.

Will you leave this stock? What are you doing with that old beat up blue thing?

[Trackrat]

Originally Posted by TRAKCAR

Im just dreaming of a 4.0, so allow me;

For 90% track and 10% street:
As you spec it but I would black out the interior, uncluding black seat belts. Add white roll bar and black 6 points. Leave A/C in, or it will be 100% track. You can always take it out. No leather. Too hard to clean after spinning and does NOT belong in a Trackrat's Trakcar, plus you already have a blinged out baller GT2RS ;-)

For my daily driver it would be:
Delete and add nothing.
White, silver wheels, all black inside.

But please drive and beat the living daylights out of it for max depreciation, I'll take it when you sell it in any combo you order it as long as I can put the A/C back in.

Will you leave this stock? What are you doing with that old beat up blue thing?

I am going back and forth on the A/C, sure would like to lose that 30-40 lbs and not need to start tearing off parts as soon as I get the car.

Not sure if going BK harness bar or rear Clubsport cage (I have one in the corner of the shop ready to go). Andreas and Walter both would remove the cage to save the weight, but for full track use I think better to put one in? If they had the confidence to race that RS with a clubsport cage it is good enough for me too.

Haha the poor beat up blue thing is so fun to drive now it is hard for me to conceive of doing anything but driving the wheels off of it. Dialed in so well for my driving style (neutrality). I suppose if I could sell it as is and not get totally killed I might consider it and apply similar tweaks to the 4.0 and make it primary track car? We shall see, pleanty of time before 4.0 delivery.

[CWS]

White
Silver Wheels
Radio delete
CF center console
Full leather
LiON battery

Akrapovic Sport Cup exhaust (-46lbs). Losing weight in the rear is a lot more important than losing it in the front.

[Trackrat]

Originally Posted by CWS

White
Silver Wheels
Radio delete
CF center console
Full leather
LiON battery

Akrapovic Sport Cup exhaust (-42lbs). Losing weight in the rear is a lot more important than losing it in the front.

Sweet. That Ak Ti system will be a huge weight difference. A/C delete + Ak
"race" config would be 50 lbs off the butt! Wow!

[jenk12m]

congrats pete, i would just sleep in your garage with the 4.0 going in the mix

[TRAKCAR]

Most definitely A/C. I think you will hate no A/C, plus I will need it when I take it off your hands. A/C weight is not in the wrong place, that's why I don't bother with lightweight headlights, battery and don't value the CF fenders and such much. The 4.0 is worth price of admission IMHO.

The CS bar is nice and good enough, I would add it because you need something for the seat belts, looks nice, adds some stiffnes to the tub and will help some if you wreck bad.

Exhaust on the other hand is 42lbs that must go.

I suggest doing lots and lots of "testing" in the blue one before 4.0 shows up and bolt everything that works onto the 4.0 and sell the blue one mostly stock. I think the 3.8 would get dusty quick when parked next to a track/street ready 4.0 and the perfect street/track ready GT2RS.

Then again, like Mike says, just sell the house who wouldn't want to live with a red, white and blue RS, one in each flavor sitting in the mancave all ready, willing and extremely able :-)

[CWS]

A/C is a must-have item IMHO unless you live in Alaska or plan to run a Cool Suit. I ran mine full blast at every track event last summer.

[FTS]

Sooo delicious, craving started already

Do you think they will put the usual Porsche emblem on the hood, or just a sticker of it? 996 GT3 RS only had a sticker for weight savings, albeit on the front only

[Trackrat]

Originally Posted by FTS

Sooo delicious, craving started already

Do you think they will put the usual Porsche emblem on the hood, or just a sticker of it? 996 GT3 RS only had a sticker for weight savings, albeit on the front only

My betting money would be on sticker for sure. It's a carbon hood, can't imagine drilling it for a Porsche "medallion".

I hear you guys on the A/C, the thought of that 40lbs is killing me though. I don't know what I will do... What does a cool suit unit weigh?

[CWS]

Originally Posted by Trackrat

I hear you guys on the A/C, the thought of that 40lbs is killing me though. I don't know what I will do... What does a cool suit unit weigh?

Less, but you've got to strap it down in the passenger footwell, which usually is done via webbing strung through metal loops drilled into the floor, and you've got to constantly manage the ice. Save it for the dedicated 3.8 RS rat.

[Izzone]

Add AC.....you will regret it

The rest of the spec is fine

[TRAKCAR]

I wonder if no condensor would help with more brake cooling on one side for brakes.
CUP cars don't have that one radiator in the way right?

[CWS]

Originally Posted by Trackrat

My betting money would be on sticker for sure. It's a carbon hood, can't imagine drilling it for a Porsche "medallion".

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[PJS]

AC yes
stripe delete
and your specs look good to me... white wheels will be tough to keep clean, but I like the look.