Porsche-owned tuning home Manthey-Racing has unveiled what may very well be the most popular warranty-backed 911 GT3 RS but, full with sufficient downforce to exceed some dual-cab utes’ payload capability.
When you haven’t heard of Manthey-Racing, it’s to Porsche what AMG is to Mercedes or M is to BMW, even when its efficiency upgrades are technically made after the automotive is already constructed moderately than because it rolls down the manufacturing line.
The merely named Manthey Package is now accessible for the 992-generation Porsche 911 GT3 RS, including a bunch of much more aggressive track-focused upgrades to the rear-engined supercar.
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This contains a big entrance splitter (full with reinforcing bars to carry it to the bumper), diveplanes, Gurney flaps on the wheel-arch vents and a placing ‘shark fin’, impressed by Porsche’s championship-winning 963 prototype racer.
Manthey’s fin replaces the rear window with a carbon-fibre panel, stated to be 25 per cent lighter than the unique glass, whereas the fin itself is designed to extend stability in high-speed corners.
Mixed with a revised rear wing and ‘aerodisc’ rear wheel covers, Manthey claims to have elevated the 911 GT3 RS’s downforce with out including drag.
All up, Manthey claims that at 285km/h the kit-equipped GT3 RS generates 1000kg of downforce, about 16 per cent greater than ‘customary’ variations of the automotive – in case you can name it that.
There have been modifications made beneath the pores and skin to compensate for the elevated aerodynamic load, akin to 30 and 15 per cent stiffer springs on the entrance and rear, respectively.
New dampers function two separate valves – one for compression and one for rebound – and may adapt primarily based on three drive modes: Regular, Sport and Monitor.
Whereas the Manthey Package doesn’t change the outputs of the GT3 RS’s 4.0-litre flat-six engine (which produces 386kW of energy and 485Nm of torque) it does embody a brake package deal which supplies higher stopping energy and longevity on the race observe.
That is achieved by way of the fitment of steel-sheathed brake strains and racing brake pads, although the latter can solely be added to examples already fitted with the Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake (PCCB) package deal.
The agency has additionally supplied numerous visible equipment, akin to carbon-fibre illuminated door sill panels, Manthey puddle lights, and a towing eye.
Sadly Porsche has but to announce how briskly the equipment makes the GT3 RS across the Nürburgring Nordschleife, nevertheless count on a time beneath the six minute and 44.848 second marker set by the bottom automotive in 2022.
That lap was practically as quick because the Manthey-equipped model of the previous-generation, twin-turbo GT2 RS, which achieved a time of six minutes and 43.300 seconds to set the-then manufacturing automotive report across the 20.8km circuit.
This has since been eclipsed by the Mercedes-AMG One, with its present time of six minutes and 29.090 seconds standing on the prime of the timesheets.
Manthey-Racing has lots of expertise across the Nürburgring, having gained seven editions of the 24-hour race round ‘The Inexperienced Hell’, whereas the squad additionally gained this 12 months’s Bathurst 12 Hour with Australian ace Matt Campbell behind the wheel.
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