PORSCHE'S GT3 WEISSACH FACES A 493 HP RWB TSUBASA

$235,800 buys the base 2026 Porsche 911 GT3, a naturally aspirated 4.0 liter flat six making 502 horsepower. Add the Weissach Package, a treatment that used to live only on the RS cars, and the price climbs near $269,320 while the GT3 sheds more than 48 pounds through magnesium wheels and carbon fiber panels. An ocean away, a Jakarta shop spent a week turning a decade old 911 Turbo into RWB Tsubasa, a widebody build making 493 horsepower under panels riveted on by hand. Type7 posted both cars side by side under one caption, Double Trouble, and asked which build you would choose. The honest answer is that they are not competing for the same job.

$33,520 for a Package That Used to Be RS Only

The Weissach Package landed on the standard GT3 for the 2026 model year for the first time, after years of sitting exclusively on the GT3 RS and GT2 RS order sheets. It adds roughly $33,520 to the GT3's $235,800 base price, and the money buys a carbon fiber hood, roof, and front lid, plus 20 and 21 inch forged magnesium wheels that alone cut close to 20 pounds versus the standard set. Pair that with folding lightweight bucket seats and the full package removes more than 48 pounds total. None of it changes the horsepower figure. The 4.0 liter flat six still makes 502 horsepower and 331 lb ft, sent through either a 6 speed manual or a 7 speed PDK. Porsche has run this kind of factory theater before. The £251,951 GT3 Earls Court 51 Edition charged a premium for provenance and livery rather than extra output, the same logic in a different currency.

Akira Nakai Named This One After a Son

RWB Tsubasa is the twelfth Rauh Welt Begriff build completed in Indonesia, finished in a single week in August 2024 at Ivan's Motor PIK 2, outside Jakarta. Akira Nakai, the Tokyo fabricator who has been widening 911s by hand since the 1990s under the Rauh Welt Begriff name, chose the word Tsubasa, meaning wings, as a tribute to the young son of owner William Bakajin. Bakajin already owned RWB Indonesia number seven, a car Nakai had named Tsubaki. Nakai does not sell a finished car. He sells a body kit, flies to the customer, and rivets the overfenders on himself over several days while the owner and, on this build's final day, roughly 4,000 spectators watched the panels go from stock steel to a widened race silhouette. Tsubasa's donor car is a 997.2 generation 911 Turbo built between 2009 and 2013, repainted Underberg Green, a factory Porsche color, by the Jakarta shop Autolook before Nakai arrived. The footage in Type7's post carries a photo credit to authenticallyap, shooting for Type7 alongside owner Bakajin and the Garage One shop.

493 Horsepower Runs Through a Widowmaker's Old Layout

Tsubasa's donor sits on the same rear engine, twin turbo flat six architecture that earned Porsche's 930 and later 996 GT2 the Widowmaker nickname, an inheritance Type7 has already traced in its comparison of the 930 and 996 GT2 sharing one menace. The 997.2 Turbo under Tsubasa's new bodywork runs a 3.8 liter twin turbo six, tuned here with a custom intake and a Sharkwerks exhaust and downpipe to 493 horsepower and about 700 Nm of torque. KW Clubsport coilovers and Elephant Racing suspension components replace the factory setup, a Heigo rollcage goes into the cabin, and the car rides on 19 inch Antelope Forged wheels built specifically for this build and named the Bakajin Edition, 10.5 inches wide up front and 13 inches out back under a Royal Champion wing, the largest fender option RWB offers. None of that is a factory option code. Every measurement on Tsubasa exists because Nakai and the Jakarta crew chose it by hand.

Weissach Chases Grams. Jakarta Chased a Silhouette.

Porsche's engineers spend their budget removing mass in single digit pound increments, the same instinct behind the automaker's bet that the 992 Sport Classic could prove analog still wins with a stick shift and cloth seats on a limited run car nobody had to ask for. Nakai's crew spends its time adding mass back, wider arches, a bigger wing, forged wheels sized for the new fender line, then tuning around the extra weight until the power to weight math works again. Both cars start from the same 911 hardpoints and the same flat six format. Neither approach is the correct one. They are answers to different questions, factory restraint measured in ounces against personalization pushed until the car looks like nothing else parked next to it.

Buy the Weissach Package and you get a documented 502 horsepower, 48 fewer pounds, and a car every GT3 owner two doors down can spec identically. Buy into an RWB and you get Nakai's signature, a name chosen for the owner's own son, and a 493 horsepower widebody that will never exist twice. Only one of those builds is repeatable, and that is the whole argument the caption was making.