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Extract from Performance Car Magazine 1992
This is Porsches finest road creation since the 73RS.
First impressions are of a car that is genuinely hard to fault so when Porsche talks of the new RS as 'the rebirth of a legend', don't scoff. The first test car I ever drove as a journalist was one of the original 2.7 litre Carrera RS's, one of the limited edition lightweight cars at the time.
Nothing else I have ever driven, no matter how quick, gave the slightest hint of the chilling ferocity of that duck-tailed RS in full flight; nothing has approached the astounding mixture of grip and razor sharp response, the awesome stopping power, the glorious noise - the whole racer's-edge feel of a true classic.
For eighteen years the raw excitement of that first RS experience has been a hard act to follow, even for some of the major league Supercars that I've driven with fair regularity ever since. At Zolder, the new RS brought some long remembered, seldom-repeated feelings flooding back. If it's as good on the road as it is on the circuit - and there is nothing at all to suggest it won't be - it has every chance of going down as one of the all time greats. And that I promise you is not an exaggeration.
Cost new £48.000 - Performance 0-62 in 5.3sec, 0-100 in 11.9sec, Topout 164mph
Stripped to its bare essentials, the 911RS offer a racecar feel for the road.
For £9.500 more than the basic 911 Carrera you get wind-up windows instead of push button electrics, smart webbing loop door pulls that weigh nothing, no air conditioning, no central locking, high sided lightweight front seats, thinner glass, an alloy front luggage lid and 260bhp instead of 250bhp
Any 964 RS owner who wants to dramatically improve what is already a sensational car should find himself in a little alleyway in the back of a Warrington Trading Estate parked outside 930 Motorsport. Entrust the keys to Colin Belton and when you return 5 or 6 hours later (he very kindly lent me his car) you will have something very special. All for around £750 (+ VAT) His +30 bhp conversion consists of a Cup Bypass Pipe, Chip, K + N, Filter, Larger Throttle Body Kit +, very, very importantly, a conversion to stop your elderly Distributor in black and white terms, from severely damaging your engine. (Porsche occasionally have a weakness!)
My distributor belt was literally on its last legs and could have resulted in interminable damage. Of course, there are literally dozens of Porsche Specialists advertising their wares. But in my callow youth I tried 5 well known names and got stung by each and every one of them.
One did absolutely no work on the car whatsoever, charged me £800 and when I tried to contact him his wife said "I'm afraid he has had a nervous breakdown and isn't in the best of health to check your car!"
Another allowed me to collect my 2.4 S at lunchtime and comprehensively broke down 20 minutes later in deepest Lincolnshire.
Another had the car returned x 3 to get the paint to match correctly on one of their "famous" spoiler conversions. Face to face I'll tell you who they were!!.
As a member of the Porsche Owners Club, off the record, speak to their members for their input on this. 930 Motorsport are highly recommended by the members of the Porsche RS section of the owners Club
930 Motorsport (01925 242342, Fax 417638) Speak to Colin Belton or Robin.
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