# Porsche 993 GT2 (race)

- Source: https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/porsche-993-gt2-race/
- Publisher: Racing Car Network (racingcarnetwork.com), the race car marketplace
- Type: car · Brand: Porsche
- Discipline: historic-collection
- Series: gt1
- Era: 1990s
- Last updated: 2026-07-06

The 993 GT2 is the air-cooled turbo's racing apotheosis: the widebody homologation monster — BPR-and-GT2-class campaigns, Evo escalations — whose bolt-on-arch silhouette became the era's poster and the collection tier's turbo summit.

## Specifications

| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Engine | 3.6 L twin-turbo air-cooled flat-6 |
| Power | ~480 hp (Evo ~600) |
| Drive | RWD conversion (racing form) |
| Ledger | BPR GT2 class, Le Mans, national GT |
| Population | Race fleet + ~190 road tier |
| Diligence | Population forensics + Evo precision |
| Years | 1995–1998 |
| Class | Air-cooled turbo apotheosis |

## History

Porsche's 993 GT2 (1995) armed the GT era's class fights with the air-cooled turbo's final racing form: the rear-drive conversion of the Turbo's architecture (racing shedding the road car's all-wheel drive), the twin-turbo 3.6 toward 480 racing horsepower, and the bolt-on-arch widebody that made the silhouette iconic — campaigning the BPR Global GT era's GT2 class, Le Mans class entries, national GT championships across the customer fleet, with the Evo escalation (the ~600-horsepower GT1-class stopgap's small run) extending the type's reach upward before the era's homologation war escalated past it.

The road-homologation run (the GT2 road cars' ~190-ish population) built the collection legend the racers share: air-cooled turbo finality at widebody drama, the road tier's seven-figure rise lifting the racing examples' gravity.

The racing specification's texture rewards study: the GT2's adjustable turbo boost against the class's restrictor arithmetic, the suspension's rose-jointed conversion, the aluminium-doors-and-lexan diet, and the Evo step's aero-and-power escalation — the air-cooled turbo's final development chapter documented kit by kit.

The market prices the apotheosis: racing GT2s with period campaign histories at the air-cooled summit's stakes, Evo identity the connoisseur precision, and the road-versus-race population forensics the type's values demand.

## Palmarès

BPR Global GT class campaigns, Le Mans class entries and national GT honours through 1995-98 — the air-cooled turbo's closing racing ledger, Evo escalation included.

## What to check before you buy

Apotheosis-tier law: race-versus-road population forensics first (the racing cars' documented campaign identities against the ~190-road-car tier's collection market — conversions and tributes priced as such), Evo precision where claimed (the small escalation run's individual identities), and period BPR-and-Le-Mans provenance the premium forensics. The air-cooled turbo custody (the 3.6 twin-turbo's specialist culture at the era's summit) budgets accordingly; the road tier's seven-figure gravity floors everything wearing the arches. Blue-riband historic eligibility structures the runners — the silhouette headlines wherever it enters.

## Did you know

- The bolt-on arches became the era's poster: the GT2's widebody drama defining nineties GT racing's visual memory.
- Racing shed the all-wheel drive: the GT2 converting the Turbo to rear drive because the class rules and the scales agreed.
- The road tier's rise lifted the racers: air-cooled finality arithmetic carrying every arch-wearing example upward together.

## Related entries

- Porsche 911 GT1 — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/porsche-911-gt1/
- Porsche 993 Carrera Cup — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/porsche-993-carrera-cup/
- Porsche 934 — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/porsche-934/
- Porsche 911 GT2 RS Clubsport — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/porsche-911-gt2-rs-clubsport/