That's what the techs. called it at their dealer & what RUF listed it by as an available aftermarket exhaust for a 996.
Besides the fact that I was there when RAC opened its doors & had the CTR2, RGT, rTurbo, & several other cars, and were starting them up for the crowd, nothing but video clips on disks in my office.
I know exactly what most RUFs sound like by now. I have seen enough at RAC & MSR to get more than ear full.
You could well be bull****ting me here. And your reticence to provide any backup / reasoning for anything you've said so far in this discourse doesn't sway me in your favour, either. Maybe it's the "inflated sense of self-importance" thing again?
Why would you believe the technicians? They are not race exhausts - maybe "race-style" in terms of appearance, or the use of race-type materials, or construction methods etc. They are production road cars; they have road car exhausts. At any rate,
this catalogue (page four) says "sports" parts. Nothing about the text, nor the images, says race.
You should know that Alois Ruf started out making parts, then began assembling complete cars as showcases - the differences between the RGT and a 996 Carrera with the full complement of (appropriate) RUF-made 996 Carrera parts is likely to be minimal.
And it doesn't change the fact that you might only
think you know what they sound like - like I said, people hear what they want to hear, and remember the parts that stood out to them, rather than the whole "picture". Did you hear a GT3 RSR or similar race machine,
back-to-back to the RGT to compare its "Race" exhaust? Maybe you should watch your videos again and compare the RGT (not "most RUFs") to that in GT4 / GT3, back-to-back, just to be sure
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I'm thinking that the sound of a rotary is heavily dependant on the port geometry (which affects the timing of gas movement into and out of the individual rotors). The same is true of two-stroke engines. And four stroke engines, to a point - except here we're talking about cam timing.
Maybe they used the wrong samples? Not to mention, every port job on a rotary is more-or-less unique. We know that GT doesn't explicitly allow you to change cams, or other such things, it's sort of included under the other mods. In GT2, an exhaust upgrade could reset the rev-limiter! I'm hoping for a change this time...
It's a road car. If it's bored, it'll sound very similar. If it's stroked, it'll sound mildly different (given the relative difference in stroke length). High-flow cats, eh? Same effect as a resonator in that position; stock cats are the same, just a bit quieter. The rest of the exhaust, obviously, will sound quite different - though Rufs of that era typically aren't that loud, not race-loud at any rate.
Most of the exhaust upgrades changed the sound to something unfamiliar and wrong for that type of engine, maybe most evident on V8 engines.
