TEST DRIVING THE BUDGET 1000BHP FAKE PORSCHE GT2 RS

I bought the UK's cheapest Porsche 911 Turbo, then doubled its power using budget second-hand parts. Double the power! Mission one well and truly accomplished, taking my 60,000 miles stock Porsche engine from 540 bhp to 1082 bhp with old second-hand and slightly worn components. But I cheaped out on the clutch and today we take this 1080 bhp budget build on its first drive. The ultimate goal is to build a 1000 bhp GT2 RS replica at a fraction of the price, but trying to buy these parts from Porsche through a spanner in the works. 146,982. 42 plus the VAT. Did you want to pay carb now? Today we attempt to fit the kit that we bought 85% cheaper than Porsche quoted us. But let's be real, the GT2 RS exterior look is only one part of the puzzle. We have so many other areas that we need to address, including the interior. These cars are bred for the track and all come equipped with roll cages, meaning mine needs one too. So let's jump back on the phone to Porsche and see just how badly they try to pull my pants down this time. Porsche Trade Parts, Jackson speaking. Hi mate, I'm just calling to inquire about some parts and some prices please. No worries, what vehicle is that for? So it's for a 991.2 911 Turbo. Okay, and what was it you were looking for on that one? So essentially I'm looking for a YSAC GT2 RS style rear cage and also like a GT, maybe like a GT3, GT2 RS or a GT3 RS rear seat delete kit for that cage. Okay, all right, no worries. Let me have a look at that for you. We'll start with the cage first. Just bear me one moment, I'll have a look for you. Okay, so the YSAC one, that would set you back £9,432.27 and you said the rear seat delete kit, yeah? That's correct, yes. That would be £1,863.74 all in. No worries at all. How did you want to pay for that? Can I just have a think and get back to you on that? Yeah, not a problem. Did you not speak to me a couple of weeks ago about a full GT2 RS conversion kit? It looks like they're on to us, boys. That said, at over £11,000 for some carpet and scaffolding, it's just not going to work with my budget. But to be honest, with a near-on 1100BHP Porsche, safety is actually a real concern. So we can't completely cheap out. Levels of cages range massively and all vary depending on the car's intended purpose. As well as helping the car's structural rigidity, ultimately, they all have the same one purpose in common, to keep the car's occupants safe and alive. I need a cage and only one company comes to mind, SW Motorsport. Having previously made me a full bespoke welding cage for my M240i race car, I knew this would be light work for them. And just like that, we're at SW Motorsport and behind me, not only do we have my 911 Turbo, we have a GT3 RS. And what these boys have done in a tight time frame is absolutely crazy. Yes, guys, not only did the boys down here at SW Motorsport manage to get this cage made up, fitted, painted, all in an ultra-tight time frame, they actually managed to make it fit with all the original mounting points or the same mounting points that you'd find in a GT2 RS. So it looks totally OEM. I'm literally blown away. As you can see, yes, hiding behind the cage, we actually have a genuine GT3 rear seat delete kit. Yep, I managed to wangle a second-hand seat delete kit from good old eBay, cleaning up the whole back end and working seamlessly with our GT-style rear cage. Okay, so it does say GT3 on it, but that's nothing a little retrim can't help. The boys from SW even gave our roll cage a satin silver finish, replicating the YSAC GT2 RS titanium look. Although it's not titanium, this is actually made out of ultra-lightweight T45 steel and it only weighs 15 kg, which is half the weight of CDS, which comes in at 30 kg. Whilst we're here, what I thought I'd show you is these boys, of course, they do cages for all, they'll put a cage in anything, but what they do have right here is a GT3 RS. So GT3 RSs actually come with a half cage from factory, we know that. However, these boys have went ahead and made their own style cage that goes and fits right in the original mounting points the same. However, they've got this crazy option of going full cage and the interesting thing about the GT3 RS is they have mounting points down here and in all the other places where they need to mount a full cage already there from factory. So they literally just manufacture this and bolt it in, in a standard location. And I've got to say, this car looks wild. Like if I was going crazy and I didn't want it to kind of look like an OEM GT2 RS, I'd have went for this because, you know, the bigger the cage, the more serious you are. For your cage needs, make sure you hit these boys up. I'll leave links down below in the description. Of course, we only use the best. Check them out. I think I've got a special code too. I'll leave that down below in the description so you can save a little bit of money when you buy your cages, say I sent you. And of course, we need to get this car back to ES Motor ASAP to get the kit fitted up and see how it fits. Another item ticked off the list and once again, with a massive saving. £9,400 for the real deal and £2,000 for SW's bespoke GT style T45 half cage. The GT3 rear seat delete set me back £1,120, meaning an all in total of around £3,110. And that's an £8,100 saving over Porsche. Let's go. And a big shout out to Top Gear Transport for getting the car to and from safely. First of all, do the hardest part first, right? Then it makes it a little bit easier for us. Front end off first. So we're doing the front bumper, wings, lights, bonnet. Get all that stripped and then we'll move on to the rear. And that way we're doing one piece at a time. Otherwise, if we start going like this, time consuming, don't have a lot of time. So me and Danny cracked on removing the front bumper, removing inner wheel arches to gain access to hidden screws and also headlight and washer bottle connections. This is light as hell. The vision, the vision. And after removing the last few top bumper screws, we have the GT2 RS bumper and we have the 911 Turbo bumper. So right now you can see the differences. This one looks a lot more chunky and a lot more aggressive. The 911 Turbo has like a double DRL style here compared to the GT2 RS, which has the single DRL. Apart from that, we have the carbon fibre and the vent in here. Carbon fibre bits that are somewhere over there that clip over there. And again, some more aggressive kind of design there. So back on it, Danny's set to work removing the front headlights. Once complete, it was time to remove the wings. There we go. And finally, the OEM bonnet, completing our front end strip down. On the last episode, we managed to double this car's power and hit a crazy 1,082 bhp using bargain second hand used approved parts to make up an ES-Motor spec 900 GT powerplant. An 82 brake horsepower! The 900 GT package is unique to ES-Motor's other tuning packages as it utilises the stock engine, stock ECU but full frame externally gated turbos, extracting the most from a stock engine safely but adds all of the sounds and drama of a fully built engine big power 911 build like their ES1500 packages. However, I've cheaped out and not fitted the recommended clutch upgrade and this could cause major issues. We need to get this kit test fitted ASAP so I can get to the runway and give this beast its first official shakedown. So we got back to stripping down the rear end and removing the rear spoiler, deck lid, lights and finally the rear bumper exposing the rear mounted 3.8 litre flat six twin turbo powerplant. And just like that... The car structurally, this car's never been in a spec so that's a good thing but everything's stripped as you can see wings, bonnet, front bumper, rear bumper, rear deck lid so what we've got to try and do now as well is a bit that we'll get to later in the video but the slam panel. We're going to have to totally strip that out so it's just a flat panel and then I can work out where the latch is going to sit and stuff like that but we'll do that later in the line. The main thing right now is the time frame that we have. He ain't lying. Yeah, that's it. So I want to put the front and back together so we strip the front first let's put the front back together then we come to the back. I'm intrigued to see how it's all going to fit and how it's all going to tie in together. All right, well time's ticking. The kit's over there so let's get the kit in. Let's get smashing. So we started off with our full carbon fibre GT2RS wings. We started building her back up and just by soft fitting the wings you could instantly see the vision. Already, just looking at this, yeah? Yeah. It just looks so aggressive. This is the big moment, Danny. It is indeed. It is the front bumper fitting. Yeah, this here. Watch your hand. Yeah, that. Oh, the shrouds. Yeah. So you might have to cut them. We're going to have to, yeah. Let's just remove them for now. So we removed the three front radiator air ducts to help line up the bumper. These ducts look like they're going to need a little bit of modification to sit behind the bumper properly but nothing too serious. Once removed, the GT2RS bumper slipped right on. Just like that. That'll be fine. I won't push it in more than that. Oh, it's looking GT3RS-y, bro. GT2RS-y, shall I say. Yeah, I'd say, yeah. Okay, okay. Yeah, that's kind of sick. And finally, we attached the fully exposed carbon fibre front bonnet. Right guys, so as you see behind us we have what looks like the beginnings of a GT2RS. Tell me that this doesn't look absolutely crazy. We're not far off. We've done really well. Yeah. We've done really well. The kit, obviously we have just soft fitted this completely. So I've actually used clamps to put the bumper to the wing for now because we're just doing this to make sure the kit fits 99% as well as we want it to. And then obviously it's all got to come off. We will be sending this car to Alma crash repair and he will be perfecting this kit and making it indistinguishable from a real GT2RS. Now onto the back end and the exhaust tips have to come off as the new GT2RS rear bumper exhaust exits don't line up. Meaning that once this kit has been painted the car will need to do a small visit back to Overkill Performance to line our exhaust up correctly. And with every new panel fitted the GT2 ES Vision looks much closer to a reality. Do you want the razors? We're going to put the razors. Let's get the big boys. I'm trying to be helpful bro. Once our massive full carbon fibre wing was mounted to our risers I connected the carbon side vents and fitted the wheels. And just like that. The kit is now fully fitted minus the side skirts because we've run out of time. It's not fully fitted, it's soft fitted. And we've been a little bit lazy so side skirts ain't on there either. But we're going to get the full view of how this car kind of looks. Put it in the middle of the workshop. And we'll have a nice walk around. And I think we'll look up from up there as well. Okay. You had a dream and it's nearly there. I had a dream. And look guys, we have pretty much fitted everything up. Of course, yes. We are missing a few things. And yes, it needs some fine tuning and some adjustment. But for a soft fit right now, we are very happy. We are literally 80% there with the way everything goes. Yes, we haven't put the skirts on. So these are actually a full replacement. They're not. These are a full replacement. Full replacement, yeah. So you won't be able to get them straight up against the car. Okay. But you can sort of imagine how much wider they are going to be. Look how much wider they are going to be. Sit back. So yeah, it's going to be super, super aggressive. As you see, we've got some gaps and we've got some offset issues. But we will be rectifying those with good suspension. And of course, some special wheels that will be coming soon too. It is taking shape. Got to shout out the wing. Three inches taller. Some say one inch makes a difference. Some say three. My wang is bigger than yours. Yeah, boy. This is what you call a wang. This is a five-minute Nürburgring lap. It is. From the back, you really get the vision of just how aggressive this car looks. How wide. How wide it starts. Look at that, bro. I can't get over that wing. It's really, really taking shape, man. It is really taking shape. Wherever you look now, it is race car. As you can see, we have a half cage in the back. Shout out to SW. It is... Don't worry about a three. We'll cross it out and put a two at some point. You know what I mean? Three minus one. There you go. You guys might have seen Mo from Alma Crash Repair Center kind of floating around today because he's come down to get to terms with what he's up against. He and his garage will be the people taking on the real fitment, all the fine tuning, and of course, spraying this car. And when I say spraying this car... It's going to be all white. It's going to be all white, mate. Let me know what you think of the car's new look. These wings, the way they flare out. Before with the turbo, it's crazy because the rear wings or the rear arches really give it its width. It's... Do you know what I mean? Whereas now with the GT2 front end, it's almost as wide at the front as it is at the back, which is... That is crazy, you know? There's so much more going on now. So with our first true glance at just how aggressive this GT2 ES is going to look, it's time to find out just how aggressive 1,082 bhp is going to feel. But unless we want to do a rapid GT2 RS delete on our first pull, annoyingly, we've got to put this car's OEM panels back on. Right, Jamie, you ready? I'm ready, bro. The OEM panels are back on the car, Mr. Back to Front Man, but it's fine. Don't worry. This thing is going to hit completely different to how you drove it here from the beginning, right? You've got 1,080 brake horsepower sitting in this car with a stock clutch. Please be safe. I will. Please drive safe. I will. But please go flat out. Let's go! So with the sun setting, I just made it over to the runway in time to get a first feel of how insanely these secondhand modifications had transformed this car. 1,082 bhp. The big question is, will the clutch slip? I drove the car here and I promise it took every ounce of a petrol head strength for me not to put my foot down. However, the car sounds absolutely nasty, even quarter throttle. So what we're going to do is get straight into it. Hopefully, the clutch holds together. Yo, it's a different beast. Hit that sport mode. Spoilers up because you know what time it is. All right. I think we're pretty much good to go. Let's give it a few revs. She is sounding spicy. All right. Let's set off onto the runway for the first time and give you guys a feel for the sounds. This ain't a car no more. We've got a spaceship on our hands. Yeah, this is crazy. The way these big full frame turbos and externally gated also just change the whole dynamic of how the car sounds. Listen to it. And the thing is, if you know what a standard 911 turbo 991 or 992 regardless sounds like from stock, they sound absolutely terrible. And this just sounds like a different beast right now. So a runway to ourself. Should we go? Let's go a little. Let's go half throttle from second gear for the first time. We're going to find out all together. Half roll. Four and a half thousand rpm is all I'm taking it to. You can feel those massive precisions just come on boost and want to carry the car away. I'm too gassed. This car is like it's like a dream the way it sounds. All right. Third gear. We take it to 5000 rpm now. I don't know. I don't know something happened there. I don't know if that was slip at 5000 rpm. Let's go again. Third gear slowly up to 5000. Oh, there's something happening in between shifts. It could be. It could be the dreaded clutch slip. Yeah, let's let's spin it around. Let's just let's just put ourselves out of our misery. Let's go for a first proper pull. Take it all the way to red line. Let the car change gear on its own. I don't know after hearing those. You know what? I'm probably talking about that sound in between shifts. It's not promising anyway. Second gear guys on second gear. Let's go. I don't know what was happening. It wasn't slipping. I do not know. It's so hard to hear what's going on. Amir said if it's going to slip, it's going to slip on the gear change. And it seemed to hold. I don't know. There's only one way to find out though, right? Get back on it. All right, let's roll on from second then. Full throttle now. First gear. This is moving, but I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Let me know at home guys, what's your thoughts? Are we getting a little bit of slip? It felt like there was a gear change there. Maybe it was second to third. It just didn't seem that PDK snap. It felt a little bit like... I don't know. With it extremely hard to tell what's going on and overwhelmed with the noise and the power, it felt to me like the clutches may just be slipping and that my gamble hadn't paid off. And then I remembered I was only in sport mode and not sport plus. And there's a possibility Porsche may well up their clamping pressures to assist with harsher gear shifts in its most sportiest setting. So I flicked it into sport plus and gave it another try. So I think in sport plus, the most aggressive shifts will happen. So I think this will tell. And I think the only way to tell, everything is steaming up and getting way too excited. The only way to tell is really to stamp on it from first gear maybe. Trial by fire. Hopefully not actual fire. All right. Cool. Let's just do it. Let's get on it. First gear. It's moving. 100% traction from the clutch. I don't know. Or 100% gripping. Listen to it. That felt like it was clamping. Just like that. Yes. She doesn't seem to be slipping. I don't think. In sport plus, I think. I think we've got it. I don't think she's slipping. She might be right on the edge. With what seemed like the clutch now holding, I decided pretty stupidly, why not take the car for a top speed run? And this is where things got real sketchy. All right. Let's go from second this time. All right. Let's go. Oh, 170. And we broke traction. Oh, my gosh. This car is wild. 170. And we hit a little bit of a wet patch on the runway. As you can see, it's not totally dry. Whoa. Okay. That might be my message to say, Jamie, we've done enough. This is just meant to be a shakedown. I know the boys at ESMOTO will be watching this back and saying, Jamie, what are you doing? Wow. Let's stop here. This is, that's crazy. Yeah. That was 170 mile an hour and hit a little bit of standing water. That is. Wow. That has been an emotional ride. Literally, the sun is going down right now. We made it to the runway a little bit late. There's been a lot going on today and in this video. And man, all I can say is thank you so much for your support so far. Thank you to everyone who's been involved in this build. And you know, just everyone who's backing me and getting behind me on this build. It looks like we might, we might just have come out on top. I'm going to have to go and speak to the boys at ESMOTO, show them this footage and just see what they think. But guys, to me in sport plus the car seems to be holding an, oh, what an animal it is. This is absolutely wild. If you have enjoyed today's video and you can't wait to see the next one. You know, we're going to be fitting up this kit properly. We're going to be getting it sprayed. We are going to be getting this together. The car is really, really going to be taking shape right now. It looks almost like a GT3 touring, I guess with a cage in the back. But we've got big plans for the interior too. So thank you so much once again for being here with me. I am absolutely buzzing, absolutely buzzing. Guys, hit that subscribe button, hit the thumbs up if you want to see more. And yeah, man, I'll see you on the next one. Peace out.