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Sorry for the lapse in uploads, I'm currently rebuilding my house from a fire and when I get more time the regular upload schedule will resume. Thanks for all the support over the last 12 months, I wouldn't be able to get through all this without the subs! Much love

The 930s were actually famous for spinning out while letting off the gas or braking through a turn. Not under acceleration. Accelerating through a turn, even when the boost hits, they have incredible grip.

Owned an '86 930. Hway On-ramps were like taking off from an aircraft carrier. Lifting mid-turn was suicidal. Gas tank in front so traveling across Texas at 140 mph was scary when the tank was near empty becuase the front end would get very light.

The handling issue with the 930 was NOT the boost suddenly coming on mid corner. It was lifting off the throttle mid corner and the weight of the rear engine would cause the tail to swing out. Mid engined cars and rear engined cars do this. If you know how to really drive these cars, you can use this “feature” to steer with the throttle. Go into a tight hairpin, lift off the throttle for a split second, as the tail starts to come around, hit the throttle again to regain traction and direction.

The man, the myth, the legend. Has returned with art as usual

I'm so glad you decided to do Porsche. I love Porsche as a brand and my dream car is the 918.

It really takes me back in the day when my friend’s dad warned him about the limit handling of his air-cooled Targa and had my friend practice in a large empty parking lot. Talk about balling in the 80’s. 😊

Drove a 87 930 Turbo for a few weeks. It was insanely fun. When the turbo kicked in the force of acceleration pulled you back into your chair. My friend who came for a ride in it compares it to taking off in a jet. A lot of rear engined cars have the pendulum effect when the arse end will overtake the front end if given half a chance. You just drive accordingly.

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Had a 73 911T, Guards Red, car was a rocket. Reminded me of my days of go kart racing. First car I broke 125 mph in fully pegged 5th gear and .8Gs too. Front air dam, exhaust. Fuchs Alloys pirellis, built bosch injection. And believe me had 12 chevy muscle cars but that 911 was on rails and pulled hard!

The production of these videos are just beautiful

I’ve always said that the 930 and the 959 are the reason that the 911 is still made to this day. Especially the 959

“The widow maker” is the single greatest name for a car to have.

The thing about the 930 was that you have to stay ON the gas when the ass-end starts to come out. It's counter-intuative and it takes a lot of skill and trust in the car to keep the rear in check.

I was ten the first time I saw a 911 Turbo. Between the flares and the Whale Tail, I was in awe. It was an amazing machine. It is still one of the amazing vehicles I have ever seen.

The funny thing with rear engine is when I had my first car which was the 850 cc fiat. While driving it with smooth rear tyres in the rain I used to imagine I was in the turbo porche. I used to absolutely love getting it sideways and it was very controllable. I think porche should have made a special effort to retrain the 911 new owners of the turbo in how to handle it.

Awesome video mate. Spent the first 10 years of my career as a tech working at a speed shop that specialised in Porsche, I've yet to find ANY mistakes on any of your Porsche related videos. I usually pick up a few here and there from much larger channels. I always wanted to build a matte black slant nose, but the prices have gone insane now I have a bit of money behind me and I'd hate to cut up a good car. Keep up the great work.

I seem to remember Porsche showing up at Watkins Glen with a 2.0 liter turbo in 1969 for the 6hr race. There was a story that a mechanic had installed a wastgate backward which doubled the boost. They remedied the mistake wihout damage to the engine. As the story goes, for a brief time the little 2liter was putting out around 800hp. That's what I heard anyway. I think I was there to cover the 6hr and Can-Am races for a publication and learn the track for my first SCCA National race the following month.

Your videos are getting better man! Love this one can’t wait for you to make more documentaries of the automotive world!

Dude, this content is slick with enough technical detail to keep a real enthusiast interested. This content could easily be on commercial tv. SUBSCRIBED!

Phenomenal work!!! I'm beyond grateful to have discovered y'all's channel! You don't play, the detail, technically correct points, and historical references are exemplary! Y'all gwan be hurting a lot of feelings with this level of work, Props and Respect!!!! 🙏

I've always loved the 911, it was one of my poster cars as a kid in the 80's. This is really well done, you really get into all the key details of the history of the 911 turbo in a video under 15 minutes, that is impressive. I enjoyed it.

The Porsche Turbo was not the widowmaker. Unskilled drivers were. A friend of mine owns a 993, has owned it for some 12 years and still is slightly afraid of it. That's how you survive in a Porsche. Same goes for F40, Countach, Cobra, Dodge Viper, any super sports car. They are bonkers. You have to be the one with the sanity at the wheel for you definitely can't expect it from your car.

Man this is the first content I see. The production is right up in my lane, the music, the visuals, the...everything. Sorry to hear about the fire. May peace be with you and your family.

Great video!!! Your free-flowing narration along with great video footage (for reference) made this absolutely wonderful to watch. I'm looking forward to your next segment.😊

This channel is refreshing. I enjoy the professional take on history and details on a more advanced level. Subscribed👍🏻

Hey man, sorry to hear about the house, hope you've doing better, and as always great video.

Another freaking awesome video. Your storytelling, research and presentation are tops. Thanks so much for the videos, I am always looking for your next!!!

Absolutely phenomenal work. I have always loved the quality and depth of your videos and once again you have raised the bar. As a 911 Turbo S owner myself, I can’t wait for your next episodes!

I believe the second production car to be turbocharged was the International Scout 80, it had a 152 or 196 cubic inch 4 cylinder with a I believe a Garrett turbo. Unfortunately most systems were uninstalled at dealers after most people realized that the tech wasn’t quite there. I have a 196 Scout 80 and one day I’d love to do a turbo system “justice” with efi and a modern turbo, to be clear it’s not gonna be fast, I don’t want to make a racecar but the added power of a turbo will help with drivability, if you’ve driven up a steep grade on a 60s 4 cylinder you would know why id want a turbo.

I am so loving this and can't wait for all the different 911 break down videos.

337 hitting corner threes out here. Somebody come look at this 🏃🏾💀

Your pronounciation of "Flachbau" was on point 🔥

Once again great content. Probably the best car information channel on KZfaq IMO

Good luck rebuilding your stuff buddy. I'm glad you are still here.

This is probably best video doc. on Porsche, I have ever seen and I am 62 years old!

You're killing it with these videos. 👏👏👏

Great video and enjoyed it very much. One other thing is the 930 Turbo has slightly wider front fenders as well. Once thing about these is the grip is excellent with modern tires so in street driving you would would have to be going very hard into a turn and then make a mistake to have a problem. IMO back in the day, the tire compounds sucked and inexperienced drivers that experienced boost in a turn panicked and lifted off the throttle abruptly causing the oversteering. It would be just like the people crashing when exiting cars and coffee, but at higher speed.

The production quality on this channel is amazing

hey lovely video :) As an european watcher I cant thank you enough for including metric numbers keep up the great work

I owned a 2003 Porsche GT2, one of the "Widowmakers" and the real reason they were such a handful was that the factory in their wisdom, decided that in order to stop people crashing the rear-engined Turbo cars, they'd dial in quite a bit of front end understeer. Well, all that did was to make it WORSE. The car would plow at the front, then all of a sudden, the front tires would grip again, and all those forces would cause the rear end of the car to unweight and then you'd spin. The fix, was to dial in a lot more front camber, change the caster angle a little and make the front grip properly and also turn in better and faster; that solved it for my car. I used to track my car at Laguna Seca, Thunderhill, Sears Point/Sonoma Raceway and others, and once the suspension was really dialed in, as well as setting the ride height to Euro specs, not US specs, the car was transformed - I was regularly 2 seconds a lap faster than the GT3's at Laguna Seca. I really regret selling that car, I miss it.

as a german i'm proud of you for trying to spell porsche instead of porsch.

this channel is great and phenomenal deserves deserves 1,000,000 subscribers at least for the great storytelling and research that must that must go into this channel. I also esthetically liked the little 3D car renders as well they're very nice touch to the video. the man of effort that you put into your videos deserve so many more subscribers to your channel! I also liked the little act that I had heard about when how when the Bugatti engine for the Veyron was being made that the engine in testing created so much heat that it almost burned down the building while it was in tested and tuned like absolutely mental how crazy that can be.

God tier edits, man. Great fucking music. Wonderful sound design, complete with engine sounds interlaced with on screen specs. Grown up narrator. Sick channel.

This channel is criminally underrated rated.

Yo! I love your content. The production value is fantastic. The audio and visuals are solid. Your voice is always on point and your script is well written. I appreciate the effort you and your team go through.

Another great video. Good luck with the house, man.

This video is a great production, excellent editing too. Great work mate.

Great video. A wonderful summary and overview of probably the most influential engineering aspect (turbocharging) to permeate future 911 models - both forced induction and naturally aspirated. If you haven't already, I suggest reading Paul Frère's, "Porsche 911 Story" - any edition - for a comprehensive, inside engineering perspective of the 911.

Your videos , and editing specifically are stellar. Very. Well. Done. 👏🏽

The original Porsche 911 (930) turbo - the car that was the definition of snap oversteer. I met someone who lost his son to a 911 turbo.

That was a great video. Thanks for making it.

What a well put together video, thank you for sharing it!

Missed your content, glad you're back....

This channel is just amazing! Great content as always!

These are the best car documentaries I’ve ever seen

I still own a drive a 1983, 911 Turbo Carrera in Red and Black with the full European body flair package. 430,000 original miles. Bought her brand new and have never regretted it and she still turns heads

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Another banger!!! Always looking forward to the next video.

This is the best channel. When I first saw this video I thought of the definition and honestly I saw 911 the widow maker.

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Great meticulously picked content! What a great way to represent cars.

The Turbo was ok when driven by responsible people, but it made you want to try driving it faster, and somehow the needle on the speedometer kept going higher.

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This is a great, well-produced video. Thank you.

Lots of doctors and lawyers spun these in corners because of the heavy rear and light front end, leading to the nickname "hammer ". Slow into the corner, fast out was the mantra.

I had a 1984 3.3 911 (930)whale tail turbo I bought from my brother-in-law when he had to leave the country quickly ;). I had been racing in amateur & professional road course competition for over 15 years & was professionally trained with a comp license, so I wasn't like the usual owner. I had also previously raced a '79 911 SC, so was familiar with tail-frisky cars. It was called the "doctor killer" because they could afford it, but didn't know how to control it anywhere its 10/10ths limit. Aside from not understanding of the steering geometry & tire patch management required to drive fast, the rear-drive, rear-engine monster had 2 interesting ways to put you off the road backwards into a tree. It was highly susceptible to even slight drop-throttle oversteer with so much weight in the rear. If you entered a corner a tad too fast & didn't know not to lift on the throttle, the weight would shift forward & lighten up your traction over the rear wheels just as you were diverting more traction to the turning wheels in front. Oversteer broke the back end loose & that's all she wrote. Also, in tighter corners if you let the turbo close down & then really got on it approaching the apex, the extra horses in the apex would be an unpleasant surprise as the handling changed radically just as you tried to track-out of the turn. Oops! I very much liked driving it to it's limit, though always with a tad more adrenaline than my usual competition car setup. In 1987, I sold it & got a 1988 BMW E-30 M3. It's straight 4 was originally designed for the 1983 Beneton F1 car & though only 199 bhp stock, was designed to be turbocharged. I sent it to Dinan to race modify it & it became the best car I ever had. Its 50-50 weight distribution made it so easy to drive at the limit you could throttle-steer it through some corners. It felt almost like being in a kayak in fast rapids, where you felt like all you had to do was twist your hips to control it. It could also run for full races at Lime Rock, a tight momentum course with 2 hellish corners with no brake fade. Big Bend is a double-apex hairpin with a blind second apex at the end of the main straight & you didn't have to feather between apexes with the M3, saving important tenths. The Diving Turn, a 4-story dive into a 90° right hand corneronto the main straight could be taken foot to the floor in the M3, relying on the suspension to load up at the bottom of the dive at the turn-in. Perfect car for the perfect course. I still think about that whale tail now & then, though.

Another Great video! Thank You so much for all Your hard work. I really enjoyed this video. And to be truthful I really enjoy all of them. I was sorry to read about Your house fire. I hope You and Yours were and are ok. Many Blessings and Positive energy's sent Your way!

Amazingly well done, this was a mini documentary.

bro i just subscribed because of that video holy shit great quality man!!! please do more, my studies AND breakfast gets so much interesting while watching this!! tysm for the great job

Back in 1987 I went to a Porsche dealer to finance a new car but my insurance company would not cover it. I went across the street and bought a 1987 Buick Grand National. Strangely they had no problem insuring that vehicle. I still have it.

Excellent work. Fascinating story, Well told 👏👏👏🤩🙏

Waiting patiently for your videos. Love them!

This channel and its content is so well put together

Great video and editing once again 🔥💪🏻

Of all these videos, this is the one I lust after. I dream of owning a Widowmaker someday.

so well put together Jay, appreciate the explanation man

Great work as usual!!!!!

Dude, this is fantastic content

Good to see you back

Well done. Great job. 💪🏽

Truly scary cars. My dad bought a 1976 911 from a guy he knew in 1998, but the kicker was that the car had a 1994 911 turbo motor swapped into, when the '76 motor died. The motor was not stock, due to the fact that my dad being a mechanic, and he friend being a massive gear head. The car had upgraded brakes and wider and grippier tires, and was insanely quick for its time. Even as I was growing up, in the early 2000's, the car was faster than just about anything on the road, due to the power to weight ratio. My dad sold it in the 2010's due to the economy and the price of parts for the vehicle. One of the few Porsche's I've had the pleasure to experience, but by far one of the most raw, and sinister vehicles I have ever seen.

Great video! Love the animations

The old 911 turbo was very hard to drive at it's LIMIT now today it's like driving a KIA with all the TECHNOLOGY

Greatly appreciate your efforts, man! Hope you'd talk about the GTR-32 😢

Ohhhh that purple one that went airborne after hitting the rail-! Lusting over the color, bumming about that particular ones fate

I think the bigger issue was people lifting off the throttle in a turn.

Awesome video!!! Subbed!

Great Work....Keep this Up Because You are Unique....

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I love your videos!!!! Keep them coming 💯

Love these videos!

Lift off oversteer, snap oversteer. A lot of the demons in the chassis got exorcised in the 993 style Turbo. The air cooled twin turbo Porsches were absolutely awesome, and Ruf furthered the legend throughout its existence.