Discussion
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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
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
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
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
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
If you get stuck let me know, I have good contacts for getting hold of pork engines.
You could recrankcase your existing engine, but total waste of money to be honest, Buy a secondhand lump if moneys tight, buy a 993 lump if it's a bit freer, then if moneys no issue buy a second hand lump and rebuild/tune.
You could recrankcase your existing engine, but total waste of money to be honest, Buy a secondhand lump if moneys tight, buy a 993 lump if it's a bit freer, then if moneys no issue buy a second hand lump and rebuild/tune.
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).
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
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