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We are pleased to announce that our Porsche 997 GT3 R13 LS7 V8 is now officially complete, built by the extremely talented duo at LSX-Performance Kyle and Ashley, this is one Porsche that you will want sitting on your drive way, so let’s look at what makes this 997 so special.

 

It started life as a very sick 997 C4S and as with most of the 991.1 3.8 engines this one also had the very famous piston slap and not even 100k on the clock, which was the main reason for buying this particular car as we had discussed with kyle 18 month previously that this build would wear our forged 3 piece wheels, along with our R13 GT3R wide aero kit and he would build one of his very special bespoke LS7 V8 engines with this one pumping out 680 HP on its highly tuned AWD chassis.

 
LS7 V8 Powered
Porsche 997 GT3R
V8 LS7 Powered
Porsche 997 GT3 R
 

On this build we worked with Nitron Suspension fitting at set of the NTR R1, that work in tandem by the GT3RR manufactured adjustable arms, that position the wheels to perfection with all the caster and camber adjustable, the set up will need to fine tuning over the coming weeks, although we do like the Nitron set up, all builds moving forward we will be working with our long term partners Bilstein who will build us a system specifically built for our application.

 

The car needs a bit of fine tuning and the air intake system that GT3RR have developed now needs some miles and we have developed a new engine cover and rear wing assembly where the intake filters reside, the engine also needs its final map, then its just a case of getting this beauty out and about for people to see up close and personal.


We will be building this platform as a drive in drive out turn key conversion with everything done in-house with GT3RR and BCFAB at our new base in Market Drayton Shropshire, we have base models in stock ready to convert, so they are at the stage of choosing your engine specification along with body colour, so get in touch with us for further information.


We have had a busy few weeks of late and so much happening over the next few months but that hasn’t stopped us getting out and about and enjoying ourselves meeting up with people at various shows, showcasing our BMW Z4 and the first outing this year was the Ultimate BMW Meet at the British Motor Museum in Gaydon Warwickshire and apart from the traditional British April weather the show seems to be a great success, especially with the Museum open for business which was excellent few hours seeing all of the stunning cars on display.

 

BMW Z4 GT3
BMW Z4 GT3 V8 Street
BMW Z4 GT3
BMW Z4 GT3 V8 STREET
 

With well over 1100 cars on display there was a descent mixture, with more M3’s on display than anything else, we had with 39 Z4 on display all organise by Luke Blanks.

The next show for us will be the AdamCfest show on the 27th of May with Petrolheadonism at Mallory park, in Leicester, this is one show we have been looking forward too, with our BMW Z4 GT3 in the top 25, we hope to get the Porsche 997 GT3R V8 out to the same event, but we still have quite a bit to do on the car so that’s looking pretty unlikely, here is hoping the sun will join us for this event, see you there.



 

It’s been a while since we have dropped a blog post and with a build like this one we have going on it needs to be shared globally as we have been asked over and over where is the build at and you will be please to know this build is almost complete.

This amazing 997GT3R build has been held up because we didn’t want to run a conventional GT3R race wing, that’s been done to death and its nothing new, we also wanted to have a 993 style GT2 engine cover with the side air intakes that used to feed air into the air cooled engine bay and its something we wanted to bring to the 997 LS7 V8 builds, but again the GT2 rear wing on a 996 or a 997 isn’t new and we wanted a different look than the usual GT2.

We managed to source a Gemballa style cover, but on delivery and inspection the quality was terrible and a part pretty much fit for the trash, so we decided to revamp and redesign with a cover that could be functional, so the side air intakes will have form and function.


Porsche 997GT3R
Porsche 911

With any 996 / 997 V8 conversion the air filter will want to sit where the power steering pump is situation so you have to convert to electronic steering and relocate to the front boot, but we dislike that the filter system is getting no cold air as its sitting in the engine bay sucking hot air, with our new set up the panel filters will sit in the engine cover which is an exclusive set up for this conversion.

With the build coming to the end we will be out and about at many shows this year as we can, so follow our network to see where you can see the car up close and personal.



 

 

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