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Rice’s Performance Porsches Specializing in 911 & 930 Repairs, Overahauls, Service & Upgrades Porsche Engine Specialist OEM Porsche Parts, ARP, Bosch, KKK Turbos, RUF LESLIE F. RICE PHONE (714) 539-1042 BY APPOINTMENT ONLY E-MAIL riceturbos@sbcglobal.net 22
Rice’s Ramblings: (Continued from Page 15) # 2 - Autoweek June 16 1973 Carrera RS to the parking lot to examine my just acquired 1973 911 Carrera RS. As a proper enthusiast, Lee was on his knees and belly examining the important bits, then burst out laughing. I had just had a set of trick new Yokohama 008 tires installed to help keep it under control and the tire shop mounted the tires right, but the wheels wrong. The 7s were on the right side and the 8s on the left! Hey, it still worked better than any nonflared 911 I had driven.” Back in 1973 we were quite disappointed that the Carrera RS was not going to be legal here in the USA and so would not be imported. In those days there was very little information about them. I found bits in Christophorus and looked for the foreign car magazines to read about them. If I ever loved a Porsche model, it has been the ‘73 RS. You know that I have owned and enjoyed an amazing variety of 911s over the years, so I can claim to be an bit of an expert on most all of them. A stock RS isn’t the fastest, most challenging, nor most exciting. It really isn’t the “best” either. I don’t believe that Porsche ever intended to build a Great Car when they produced the RS. They were trying to continue racing. The RS was merely an upgrade to a lightened 911 with what was necessary to produce a decent RSR racing car. It just happened to work out that it was a fantastic combination of parts that made for one of the nicest all around sports cars... ever. My first RS: I had only seen one before I saw “my” RS. That was the early RS prototype that Don Wester had at his Porsche Dealership in Monterey. I saw that car several times at his dealership and always with dealer plates. It totally mesmerized me. In 1986, while reading the S.F. Chronicle and, as always, scanning the Foreign Car Section, I spotted a new listing: a”1973 911 Carrera RS” from a small shop in Berkeley called Fantasy Junction. White/blue, Restored”. I nearly fell out of my chair. There was an RS in the area? And it is for sale? I had to see it. I quietly went to see the RS and started carefully, but discretely, looking it over. They realized this wasn’t my normal social visit when I asked if they minded if I opened doors/hood/lid, brought out my flashlight and crawled around looking underneath it. They had a thick document file that went with it. Over the next week it was time to step up to the plate. It was time for a test drive. Mike Duffy was the lucky sales guy. He seemed a bit nervous about this. He had never been in a car with me but he knew my sports car and SCCA racing history so I didn’t appreciate why he seemed so anxious. He drove it out to the open Berkeley Marina area where we wouldn’t bother anyone and turned it over to me. To me, this was a very special car, but it was mainly because the factory had built something that worked so well, not that the performance level was so special. By this time I had read many detailed stories about driving, racing and rallying these cars and some stories were incredibly detailed about how the cars reacted. They were pretty much just big bore 911S’ with wider rear wheels/ tires, slightly better suspensions and a bit lighter. Pretty much what American 911 enthusiasts had been building for years. # 3 - JhR’s RS Carrera -1986 It sounded just like any other hot MFI 911 except for a slightly guttural note to the exhaust and it was obviously set up stiffer than a genuine stock RS. I also noted the 80% limited slip installed. I knew that they cause “unusual” handling characteristics when driven with vigor and I certainly was going to do that before I bought it. There was no one around when I carefully felt out the clutch engagement and gently started off. Listening to every sound and feeling out the engine response, suspension and brakes. Finally it was time to give it serious stick. I advised Mike that I was about to finally DRIVE it and... all hell broke loose! You hear the term “explosive” and it is just a word. There was something so instantly raw and brutal about this little 911. It was very well set up and put the power down with no trauma, but the engine had a particular banshee wail unlike any of the upgraded 911s I had driven. It pulled “like a freight train… a darned fast freight train”. Gads! This thing was intoxicating! I also discovered that the testers from CAR magazine were correct. The 80% was severe. On the highway if you cruised along and nailed it - the car moved to the left about 2-3 feet, let off full throttle and it instantly snapped right about the same. Very controllable and no problem... after the first few goes and you realized it was predictable and wasn’t really trying to kill you. Basically, it was incredibly fast. It was the most exciting [controllable] (Continued on Page 30) JANUARY 2013 23
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