So what now?

[LuckyP]

Having spent a bunch of hard earned on the rest of the car, this happened to the 964 today at brands. All the engine lube all over the track, whoops.:







Peter at GT One set the car up and improved the handling no end, but looks the engine didn't wanna play ball.

Where would you suggest I take it for a repair/rebuild?

Cheers

Lucky

[LuckyP]

Silver993tt said:

LuckyP said:

Peter at GT One set the car up and improved the handling no end, but looks the engine didn't wanna play ball.

Where would you suggest I take it for a repair/rebuild?

Cheers

Lucky

GT One?

Now there's a thought

At the track one of the instructors told me about a guy called JJ in Bromley. Anyone heard of him?

Lucky (ironic, huh?)

[LuckyP]

guards red said:

That doesn't neccessarily look like the end of the world. It looks like someone has tried to cure an oil leak from the oil return tubes with some gasket sealet that has let go.

Replace the oil tubes, four of them at about £25 a pop and all should be well. The tubes used to be one piece which meant taking the engine apart to replace, now they are available as two pice affairs where one part slides into the other allowing fitment.

At least that's what it looks like to me. Replaceable at home if your handy with the spanners.

I wish it were that simple. From what I can make out, the oil pipe that runs from the flexi hose under the RHS wheel arch, accross the and below the rear of the engine and then into the crankcase on the LHS - here lies the issue.

You can just make out in the pics where the CC casting has broken off where the pipe connector screws in.

Whoops

[LuckyP]

Agent Orange said:

Dont mean to be picky , never looked under 964 , but is that an oil return tube? Appears to be union with nut and cracked pieces of crank case ?

Spot on.

I'm a bit miffed....and getting miffeder

[LuckyP]

ian964 said:

......maybe the damage was originally done when your engine carrier broke last year, put some strain on that pipe union, which has finally given way?......

I think that's exactly the cause. The engine carrier cgave way in the RHS and the weight was being supported on that pipe holding the RHR of the engine in place. That and the aircon filler nozzle

So this 993 engine. A straight swap?

[LuckyP]

G T 3 said:

Pete GG33 is looking to flog his 993 engine, well looked after and I have followed it and it sounds fantastic.

Made contact with him yesterday. Now someone hurry up and make a 993TT deal he can't refuse!!!

Pete

[LuckyP]

Doing an impression of the red arrows :

[LuckyP]

The car is back at GT-One now. Worse news than expected. The engine 'dropped a valve' which then destroyed a piston and this pushed the oil return pipe union out of the block.

Needs a new engine - worthless without.

Anyone any suggestions?

On a positive note, the Ult has a new set of wheels which are quite nice and worthy of sharing with you Porsche boys:














A nice reduction in unsprung.

Pete

Edited by LuckyP on Sunday 24th February 18:22

[LuckyP]

briSk said:

^ are kumho ecstas that good then? i had always thought they were a pretty decent more budget option..but seeing as you have fitted them to a car that quick with wheels that expensive they must be good...!?

Depends what you want them for.

The Ult weighs 1000kgs. I went from Goodyear F1 Fioranos to Kumhos to get me to, around, and back from track days. They are fantastic in the dry, usable in drizzle, but you might as well pack up and go home in full on rain. But I have the Goodyears on other rims now for 'iffy' days.

My last set of rears did 3000 miles with 5 track days......obviously wasn't trying hard enough.

If you are in a track day tool then I really can't fault them. On a par with the Yoko 888s I guess. The grip is just scary on road, so much that I've yet to lock up (no ABS), just get thrown forward in my belts.

The Ultima Factory have had these as an approved sport tyre for 6 months and the 1min 12s lap of the Top Gear track was done on them.

HTH

Lucky

[LuckyP]

bryn_p said:

Stunning wheels. They'd look awesome on my yellow 993, dare I ask how much they are?

And I did have a 964 engine but its now being installed in a VW camper I'm afraid!

Cheers,
Bryn.

£4k

Well, if you hear of another 964 engine, let me know!!

[LuckyP]

ian964 said:

Sorry to here this - there's an engine on ebay at the moment - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PORSCHE-911-964-ENGINE-USED-LOW-MILEAGE-NO-RESERVE_W0QQitemZ280202769124QQihZ018QQcategoryZ10408QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem 

Got my eye on it.

Pete

[LuckyP]

Got it. £3k 70,000 miles, no leaks or smoke. That'll do.

[LuckyP]

Ok, here's the update:

Heard the 40K (and 30K in latest car) 964 C2 engine running at a Specialist and sounded good with no smoke from cold and no abnormal rattles.

Made a bid off ebay (the specialist was selling on behalf of a customer (front wing, door, rear quarter hedge damage ), won it at £3K.

Specialist took it out and shipped it to anotther well known specialist that I have been using for the susp set-up and a few other bits and bobs. The had picked up my car a few days earlier.

Got a call from the installing specialist saying that the replacement engine was noisy, suspected big end bearing(s) was excessively worn.

I called the selling specialist who was more than a little surprised to hear this and agreed to have the car back to look at and remedy FOC if necessary.

Went to pick up the car to take it down to the engine supplying specialist on a trailer. The car was there, with masking tape on rear qurter section of side skirt . They couldn't expain it (main man was not in).

Anyway, I digress. Car was started and 'clunk! clunk! clunk! clunk! Ouch!! After about two minutes of idling the noise had disappeared. and up onto the trailer. At this point I noticed the reversing lights were on in forward and neutral!! (I have since noticed that I've been charged for a faulty reversing light switch (£48.91))

Paid the bill (£1759.15) before I came (for removal and refit with a few gaskets, seals, hoses, clamps, hot air pipe etc).

Drove the trailer to the engine supplying specialist and they rolled the car off the trailer (saying that if there was a fault like a big end bearing then the car shouldn't be driven after identifying it and asked if the installing specialist had flushe the oil system before installing the new engine. I found out that hadn't (saying that they would do this after they had checked that the engine had run).

Got a call from the engine supplying specialist later that day to say that he'd been over the engine with a stethascope and he felt that the noise (described by him as a chain being pulled over a tin can) was probably a deflated chain tensioner, that can sometimes happen after an engine has been drained and standing around. He siad he would sort it out and let me when I can collect it.

So what do you make of that - can the noises of these two issues be mixed up? Is my arse full of smoke?

What do you say?

What should be my next move?

Lucky.

PS. The engine has a short warranty from the supplying dealer (as they sold it to the customer who sold it to me).

Edited by LuckyP on Friday 25th April 21:53