This is NOT how you want your car to look one week before your 1st club race...
09-22-2005, 09:16 AM
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I got the news last week...
and then the car sat on the lift at TPC for a few days. They have a race this weekend and couldn't focus on the car. I then had it flatbedded to another shop.
I'd been dealing with the oil leak since last year! At VIR a couple weeks ago, after my last session it got really bad. I was planning on having TPC set the car up for the club race and when I dropped it off with them I told them to find the cause of the leak. A typical problem area for the 996 family of motors (boxster/996/997) is the RMS (rear main seal) and this leak had the same symptoms. The problem was i'd replaced the RMS 3 times this year already! So I wanted a definitive reason on why the car was leaking. They found the leak was from the bearing that supports the back of the intermediate shaft, and not the RMS. Automatic new motor time according to Porsche. It's a shame because technically the motor was fine, but the intermediate shaft is driven by the same chains that turn the cams. When it fails, the cams lock in position and bad things happen between the valves and the pistons. DOH!
I just hope this new motor is stronger than the old one. My buddy Sander's car pulls like a friggin' freight train and he has a 3.4 as well! We'll see. Wish me luck.
You coming out next weekend to the club race? Oct 1-2.
-KJ
I'd been dealing with the oil leak since last year! At VIR a couple weeks ago, after my last session it got really bad. I was planning on having TPC set the car up for the club race and when I dropped it off with them I told them to find the cause of the leak. A typical problem area for the 996 family of motors (boxster/996/997) is the RMS (rear main seal) and this leak had the same symptoms. The problem was i'd replaced the RMS 3 times this year already! So I wanted a definitive reason on why the car was leaking. They found the leak was from the bearing that supports the back of the intermediate shaft, and not the RMS. Automatic new motor time according to Porsche. It's a shame because technically the motor was fine, but the intermediate shaft is driven by the same chains that turn the cams. When it fails, the cams lock in position and bad things happen between the valves and the pistons. DOH!
I just hope this new motor is stronger than the old one. My buddy Sander's car pulls like a friggin' freight train and he has a 3.4 as well! We'll see. Wish me luck.
You coming out next weekend to the club race? Oct 1-2.
-KJ
09-22-2005, 11:05 AM
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Pfft! Motor goes in today. I'll spend the weekend breaking it in! :-P
So I'll be club racing next week. Assuming I don't break anything between now and then. :-\
-KJ
-KJ
