Porsche 964 Carrera RS

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The 964-based Carrera RS was unveiled in 1991 as a limited production, lightweight, high-performance version of the Carrera 2 production car. Porsche produced a total of 2,276 examples of the 964 RS, only 104 of these cars were produced in Right hand drive with ours being one of them. 1,910 of those were the standard stripped out version with bucket seats and thin carpets. These were known as the RS lightweight. It was designed to be a highly sporting responsive street or track car with no luxury options available.

All RS models were fitted with the same blue printed M64/03 air-cooled, dry sump horizontally opposed SOHC six-cylinder engine which was modified to produce 260 bhp at 6,100 RPM with 240 foot-pounds of torque at 5,000 RPM. This engine incorporated carefully matched pistons and cylinders, Bosch electronic engine management and sequential fuel injection. Power was delivered via a single-mass lightweight flywheel to a G50/10 five speed gearbox with steel synchroniser rings, altered shift sleeves and taller first and second gears. A ZF asymetrical limited-slip diff delivered 20 percent lockup under load and 100 percent lockup under braking.