Replacement Engines fitted by Porsche - what engine?

[lewisf182]

I've been viewing a lot of porsche adds recently, mostly of the 996/997 flavour. Many of them state that they've had a replacement engine fitted by Porsche. My main question is, which engine will it be? Considering the generation 2 engines came out in late 2008, if a 996 had a replacement engine in 2012, would it be the newer type engines? or do they have stocks of 'old' engines from the 996 era which they just dump in and hence still have the inherent design faults?

[lewisf182]

That was my thoughts. Theres one that had a replacement engine at 50k miles, its now approaching a 100k miles so to me seems a bit silly to even go for considering it may just go again at any point.

[lewisf182]

Well i guess it was more around would they fit a 997 gen 2 engine considering the engines in the 996/997.1 will have been out of production cars for 4/5 years at that point, so a new engine would be from which? Seems strange they'd have the ability to make a 996 engine and more likely they'd fit a new version in but i've never seen an ad mention this?

[lewisf182]

Ah ok. Just seemed strange that they'd even be able to still manufacture those engines to be able to replace them?
I guess they'd more likely recondition and rebuild now, but if they couldn't then what? buy the car back at market value I'd probably guess at.

Anyway, least I got my answer, replacement engine from porsche are pointless so i'll avoid.

[lewisf182]

GroundEffect said:

lewisf182 said:

Well i guess it was more around would they fit a 997 gen 2 engine considering the engines in the 996/997.1 will have been out of production cars for 4/5 years at that point, so a new engine would be from which? Seems strange they'd have the ability to make a 996 engine and more likely they'd fit a new version in but i've never seen an ad mention this?

For any mass production company, parts are maintained under service lines for at least 10 years (at low volume). After that you are down to depleting stock.

It is a big, big change to change from one engine to another. It would have to have been developed - a 996 with a 997.2 DFI is a whole new fuel system on its own!

Yeh I figured there'd be ECU issues etc let alone getting it to fit. Just wondered is all, I'm seeing cars with new porsche engines but they're kind of worth diddly as they will go eventually too... Annoying!

[lewisf182]

GroundEffect said:

lewisf182 said:

GroundEffect said:

lewisf182 said:

Well i guess it was more around would they fit a 997 gen 2 engine considering the engines in the 996/997.1 will have been out of production cars for 4/5 years at that point, so a new engine would be from which? Seems strange they'd have the ability to make a 996 engine and more likely they'd fit a new version in but i've never seen an ad mention this?

For any mass production company, parts are maintained under service lines for at least 10 years (at low volume). After that you are down to depleting stock.

It is a big, big change to change from one engine to another. It would have to have been developed - a 996 with a 997.2 DFI is a whole new fuel system on its own!

Yeh I figured there'd be ECU issues etc let alone getting it to fit. Just wondered is all, I'm seeing cars with new porsche engines but they're kind of worth diddly as they will go eventually too... Annoying!

Buy one for diddly and go get the bottom end rebuilt

Haha I mean in terms of buying a reliable car it's not really the case of it's a new porsche supplied engine. They sadly aren't worth diddly even with a blown engine!