*INSANE GT2 EVO 993 REVIEW!* AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MOST HUMBLE OWNER

Yes guys and welcome back to the channel. I hope you're all doing well today. I really don't know why I said that but I hope everyone's good. Are you ready? Yes guys and welcome back to the channel. Today we're going to be reviewing a 993 GT2 EVO replica. This is probably one of the nicest Porsches I've ever seen and I feel super privileged to be getting this on my channel. So guys stay tuned, you're going to like this one. All right guys so we're here with the owner Dave. He's got that beautiful Porsche outside so he's going to explain to you guys a little bit about the history of the car. So what I wanted to know is what inspired you to build something like that? To be honest I haven't had quite a lot of cars. They're just a lot, they're just boring you know. I've always wanted something, even being a kid you know, you always want something that's different, a bit mad. In everything I've ever done to be honest, clothes and I work in that industry and I always want something different. It has to be different. So you know and you always get people who tell you oh don't do that or it's not the way and it's like don't tell me what to do. You know life's too short man, you've got to do what you want to do. You just want to create something mad, you want to get in it and smile. Do you know how many people break their necks? To be honest it's about me, my friend said a good thing to me actually. He said you know when you've got a good car because when you walk back to it, if you love it, that's the one. You know and you walk back to a car and you're like hmm you don't, it's maybe not right, not for me anyway. When I drove it, when they come in for the work and I parked it up, I walked away and I just looked back and I thought you know what man it drives so it drives so nice like you wouldn't expect it to drive that nice. Well that's the thing I mean obviously it's 996 and it's the oldest kind of Porsche but even when I drive it you don't really know. I've had other Porsches, I had a 991 GT3 and you know it's not the same but it's not a million miles away and I think that's what Porsche have done so well with these. It's quite usable cars to be fair because you said you had Ferraris, you've had all different cars. Yeah yeah. How did you compare them to what you? The thing is I had loads of cars, many Ferraris, McLarens, M3s, all of them as you do growing up you know and the thing with these is like I say it's them other cars you just get them and they're just yeah it's too easy. It hasn't got that wow factor, yeah it might look nice yeah but it hasn't got that driver's experience like that like the Porsche. So the reason for this one as you already know I had a black one, it was my first test so I got this 993 and I thought I'd go sick. Looked nice man. It looked good but it was a Tiptronic and I was going to do loads of stuff to it right which was going to cost a lot of money, a new turbo engine it was like dull and I was thinking how do I get this past the wife you know you can't you know I've spent 30 grand on this engine it's like what? So anyway I started this project I bought another car with a turbo engine to do the transplant that cost me like 50 grand I was just gonna do the whole swap thing and then in the end I pulled out of it and then this came up this used to belong to Harry Metcalfe who's the creator of Evo I believe and he's had a very you know documented it very well and spent a lot of money on it. His view was more the standard GT2 which most Porsche guys will love that but for me I looked at I thought it's just I just see the other side I see the mad one and that's how well how my heart was. You took it to the next level. I know that's what I said right so so in the end I just thought you know that some bits come up which you can't find them I thought I've just got to get them and then the price it just gets so expensive but you're already in. Because you did say that the parts that you did buy were fully carbon fiber. Yeah yeah the whole the whole bumper the whole bumper's carbon fiber the whole spoiler's carbon fiber. You've got the roll cage fitted now as well. Yeah so I basically just had the sunroof deleted now just bothered me always seeing a sunroof on a car like that it just doesn't work. Yeah race car. So I've got that done I've got the work the cage welded in which again is big balls really because you've got to weld stuff in. Of course it stays permanent. This is the problem a lot of things you do you you maybe can't go it's gonna cost you a lot of money to go back and then people this is the problem people get in your head and they go don't do that so you're always toying with like the devil and the angel there you know. Of course yeah yeah. Um so I was but it all stayed to the same concept I wanted this mad thing and it's about me and if you like it you like it if you don't. I personally think you've done an amazing job honestly man when you pulled up outside the carrier I was just like oh my god man. Yeah we just came in here you're doing donuts I mean of course it's right for you but in all honesty I would love to be able to do that but I can't but maybe one day you might teach me so yeah I might be there. So in terms of the spec of the car what was what specs has it got? Um so it arrived into the UK Harry had it and arrived to UK with there was a German company I cannot even pronounce the name man I can't even read it I still can't pronounce it so what they what they've done the whoever owned it in Germany wanted to do something mad they've they what they've done they've got I think K24 hybrid turbos yeah um in there they spent obviously got the full Bilstein adjustable suspension they've done a lot of things got race cam so it's pushing out about 520 the last time um 520 horsepower and it's you know the original gt2 is like I think 4 4 4 10 I believe okay so I'm sorry long boosted it up for about 90 brake horsepower more but with this you know it normally the the turbos you know they'll top out but these they did re-re-go again around at 6 000 it goes again double power exactly so it's you know it's it's also not only looks different but obviously the way it drives is different as well. Yeah and then what what's your next modification on the car? To be honest with you now I've fitted those um those those exhausts which are just straight off a turbo so straight pipe now but I think it needs to be remapped so um a good friend of mine has mentioned there's a guy up in Preston of all places you know I mean it's got to go all the way to Preston to have it remapped yeah exactly but it's got to get done properly so I'll do a remap so it's really you know performing properly yeah um it's four wheel drive at the moment so I'll do a two wheel drive conversion yeah and then I don't know man I mean it's just you know I don't know what more to do to be honest I'll probably just like say maybe look at another project I don't know I mean I'm really feeling the JDM scene so we'll see what happens maybe get you in a nice JDM car next yeah definitely feeling that it's one of those things that you'll probably know it's like you can't pass it on until you've finished it off of course it's got to be finished how you'd like it like do you know what I mean yeah like you you spent so much time and money on it you might as well and then you're like 85 percent there and the worst thing to do is sell it because then you'll forever not have had 100 you've always spent all that dough on it yeah exactly I'm at that point now so I think I'll just finish it off and um and just see see how we go mate you know I just wanted to know what kind of career you do to own something like that or get something like that you know yeah yeah I mean stripper to be honest with you just it's it's one of those things you don't know it's weird how it comes about but always been into cars just always work normal guy normal job I work for a fashion brand luxury fashion brand have done for years yeah you know pays quite well do a few other bits on the side but I think it all just comes to you always find a way do you know what I mean like if you want something you want yeah you'll find a way whatever that is you'll find a way you know obviously I don't own that I funded that car and I think the first car I funded was an r8 v10 fighter years ago yeah and I never thought I was wow I got it yeah chucked down I don't know 15 20 deposit 75 grand 15 grand's gone in and all of a sudden you start to figure out how you know you can get a good credit rating you get a good relationship with the broker they start lending you money um also you don't buy cars really that lose money otherwise you've got no residual cash to go back in so I think it's really about picking the right car it's always giving yourself enough money to be able to go back in with the new ones yeah so it's like a yeah like a lump of money yeah kind of work over that exactly and then you know even the older cars they can still do it but for instance when I had the 458 yeah that just that cost me so much though in depreciation yeah so that I wouldn't make that mistake again so I try to buy things which are always got an exit strategy you know always going to have my dog can't be yeah all the dough is going to be it's still going to be there when I need to move on yeah like you know I like brands of cars or stars of cars that appreciate it and we were just talking about that with the jdm cars yeah they're just going up and up and up right exactly so building a good like a good credit report and then getting things that just go up therefore you get the proper of that put that back in put it to another oh yeah of course that kind of set up so that's what really helped me to be able to be in the position to get these types of cars and then uh yeah so um but also you know just finding a way man there's always a way do more work do what you've got to do none of this thing just falls in your lap but there's always opportunities yeah of course nice inspiration there guys goes back to putting your money into something that you don't that you don't spend too much on certain things and put it in the right channels yeah of course so yeah big respect for that man honestly but yeah I think what we should do now yes we should go out and take the car for a nice drive yeah so um guys we're at uh we're in the Porsche now um as I was setting up the rear GoPro I noticed that um all the carpet was removed and um it's all been sprayed red what was what did yeah to be honest um so it's like a club sport version so basically it's just all stripped out it's bare metal so before it had just all the seats taken out like a GT2 but to make it more the Evo which is the look I want I had to take all the carpets out which is a big issue because there's loads of glue they've got to take off I think it took him days to deal with that um but it's the look I wanted um and it's more bare raw material raw metal and it just sounds you get all the elements yeah that's what I want um you said also that the there's a rear wiper that you got the window in yeah so to do it basically it was a turbo so there's a lot of things to change obviously I said back seats out then the GT2 does not have a wiper so you've got to take the whole screen out with a whole new plane screen and the wiping mechanism is all taken out so that was always already done with a lightweight rear window size and back and then also is had fitted the um the GT that the wide arch kit but mine's slightly different because it's an Evo kit so there's a GT2 which is narrower and the Evo um which is the race car and like Le Mans and things like that so it's a front bumper the rear extended spoiler and then the whole body kit is wider with a wider arch um different to a GT2 so Evo is different to a GT2 okay so this is basically basically like a road legal uh race car and that's the theme you wanted you wanted to bring like a nice race car to the road um you've actually nailed it pretty much yeah yeah did you know how mad it looks going down the road oh yeah I mean it's uh thanks for saying that man I appreciate it but I know isn't it you know the funny thing is I find it it's really light I know when I first but this is again this is a proper like a Porsche it costs a lot of money that steering wheel but I couldn't get it on you got yes it push it push it in yeah that took me about an hour to figure that out that's how useless I am looks good no idea how to do it you can tell it's a proper one yeah all right cool let's go for a spin up wicked it's so weird being this side because I'm used to like you know because they're going from left to right every day yeah sometimes you're like in the middle of the road because two seconds ago you're driving the BMW I like left-hand drive oh I personally I prefer them yeah all the tracks are suited for left-hand driving is it better for us all ability to know what's what when you're driving it when you're driving it though you don't know when you're sat as a passenger it's got no lag yeah I don't know you tell me man I don't know I tell you what and it's not even tuned though I can't wait to tune it well I'm in love I want this yeah I really really like it man this is serious most critical person in the world was like it looks she walks around it I'm like what I know she's seen something she told me to tell you I'm like it feels it just feels like it just when it goes it's just when you get it up going yeah you can feel it just just and that I just want to know what it's yeah that's the thing the boost has got to go up and that's what I want the extra fuel you're going to be yeah every time you let off there'll be a pain yeah that's what I'm thinking yeah you're going to complete it so you can experience it there's nothing worse than like you'll know not completing something when you've already put so much effort and time time into it yeah yeah yeah yeah it starts all the time yeah yeah I was going to say there's no in one year I've never done I don't triple charge it nothing with the Ferraris you have to every time it starts and that's another thing how many times you get in Ferraris the dough if you don't leave it two weeks flat battery yeah yeah it is a headache yeah don't get me wrong they're nice I just prefer proper like cars that are just yeah drivers yeah mate not all this I look at me it's the same thing in fast and furious isn't it Ferrari when he's in that suit like that you know you can't afford one of these and he just also I think it's like something a bit shorter like it spools up so quick yeah you're a turbo and I'm not even revving it up I don't I feel like there's no need yeah really into cars it's like anything when you're really you go to the top extremes you know what you want people that don't know a lot about stuff they just go for the obvious yeah do you know why there's acceptance I'm the man if I've got that because you love it birds love it all that if a bird gets in my car and loves it I've got a problem do you know what I mean I want one that she hates good good job done a car like this should take you to a really respectable car show yeah yeah and you want to get involved you know when I see other people with nice and clean I'm like mate I would pull the hell out of me yeah the driver you know I want it mental like there's the one there and I think oh character man yeah but you know the thing is the thing is they would they love it but they ain't got the balls to do it that's the difference like you said if somebody else owned a car like this there was no way of bringing it out no they'll be sitting there polishing their exhaust yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah what's the point like my mate with his came in but he polished it every day on my car and then he ums and ahs about getting struggling to get out of there mate oh banging what a car man one day guys one day you never know all right guys I hope you enjoyed the review of the porsche 993 uh turbo it was an absolute pleasure to drive it I just want to say a massive thank you to the owner Dave I will put his Instagram up on the screen now you guys can go give him a follow show him some love but apart from 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