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Those of you that think the ducts didnt' work are correct. Herr Ruf laughed when he recalled a wind tunnel test where the air flowed OUT of the upper ducts. The extra slots in the rear bumper provided all the necessary pull to flow air through the intercoolers. Alois kept the prototype as it was originally built and enjoys seeing those ducts. [If it were a Porsche car, I can't imagine they would admit such a thing. They would pretend that they changed it because.... gas station attendants tried to put gas in there? Hey, it worked once before, didn't it?]
CTRs [as well as some later Ruf turbos] have gone much much faster than that 211 mph. I think Ruf got out of the game once others started the much easier process of building fast water cooled 900 series cars. They still test each customer car but it has become very much an early morning process. Too much, too slow, and ...sadly, too incompetent moving traffic.
There were 29 CTR body-in-white cars and 29 CTRs built from existing Porsche chassis. They are basically identical [but don't forget that each was built to customer desired spec, so there might not be 2 identical cars] and the only distinction is the Ruf chassis number on the BIW car. That distinction is good for about double the value so far. How's THAT for snob factor?!
Sigh. Even after all these years... great cars.
JR always flat 6s....and always a Ruf fan
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