[Roadsters] 2-litre Roadster vs Porsche 911 of the day?

[Jerry Krakauer]

Gary,

FWIW, Just from my own experience I raced my 67 1/2  Solex in CP at the regional level in the late 60s/70 until they moved it down to DP after the Z car came out. Against 911s, lotus elans, XKEs and TR5/6. While at the national level, in the east at least, Bob Sharp's major competitor was Bob Tullius in his Group 44 TRs, but at the lower levels I did quite well against all of them. Had a better top speed than most and could out drag them all, so at a fast track like Bridgehampton I always did well, but with the 'cart' suspension and power oversteer with a Detroit Locker at high speeds that can wear you down,  had to work harder at places like Lime Rock.
 Of course at that level of competition  the state of tune was a big contributor to performance and there were still folks with near stock cars back then, and I did have a Sharp prepared engine. Don't think I ever went up against a really fully prepared 911. But then again they were never a problem for the Datsuns and Triumphs at the national level. Also the 911s back then were not the monsters they are today.

Jerry Krakauer
SRL311 00099

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From: Datsun-roadsters [mailto:datsun-roadsters-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Gary McCormick via Datsun-roadsters
Sent: Monday, November 9, 2020 3:08 PM
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Subject: [Roadsters] 2-litre Roadster vs Porsche 911 of the day?

I just watched this really fun video of Jay Leno talking through the 
work done on a “baby-poop brown” 1971 Porsche 911T that he bought and 
did some rest-mod work on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsc46vhB82A 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsc46vhB82A>

When he mentioned that the 2.2L engine developed 125 bhp stock (his is 
bumped to 2.5L and 225 bhp), it got me thinking – how would a 2000 
Roadster have fared against a 911T back when they were both new?

Gary McCormick
1970 2000 Roadster
SRL311-13291
San Jose, CA
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