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i love these cars.... but i'd like mine to be a "blackbird"
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The intake manifold must be a modified Carrera unit, from that era. Everything was based on the Carrera, even the Motronic engine management system. Ruf just modified it for pressure sensing and ran their own code
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I'd rather own your white 930!
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It is the ultimate 80's-era Porsche. Blazing speed, reliability, and the hands-on driving experience (no power steering, ABS, etc...) - the perfect car.
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LOL I'm too chicken to drive the yellowbird like that in my dreams, much less in reality.
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There's a couple of people on this board with Yellowbirds. Jens (see 4 posts above this) with his Yellowbird engined car (bluebird??) and a guy called Adam (I think). Pretty sure that's him in the video posted earlier featuring the 996 RUF too.
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10 years after this thread, Ruf just released the full 19 minute version of the iconic sideways lap of the Yellowbird around the Nurburgring.
I went back and found my photos from that day in Ventura when the Yellowbird was visiting the US. Hard to believe - both the video and the fact it has been 10 years. My photos and some thoughts here: RUF Yellowbird at the Nurburgring in 1987; in Los Angeles in 2005 | Chassis001.com
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Wow, way to revive a thread!
A lot has changed in a decade... I'm now a professional automotive journalist, Editor-in-Chief of Autobytel! And, I'm currently in the Canary Islands driving the new '16 Porsche 911 Carrera models with the new turbocharged engines (I fly back to LA on Wednesday). - Mike
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I love that the OP responded immediately to the 10 year bump. I love this place sometimes.
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![]() I used to hang out here daily. While I still have my 930, I miss the camaraderie of this forum. I think it's time to get more involved. By the way, I am in Tenerife with Pete Stout, Editor-in-Chief of Panorama. He was fortunate enough to have Yellowbird in his garage for a month a decade ago! - Mike
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