720s New Engine

[12pack]

Strange discussion. Will the next contributor will be discussing the how much orange peel the paint has? Fwiw, I’m only in a Mac because how it feels to drive. Don’t particularly care about the provenance of the engine - as long it’s making the spec it’s supposed to.

Edited by 12pack on Sunday 27th September 12:33

[Smoothound]

The Surveyor said:

The significant difference is that Porsche makes their own engines, Lotus, and McLaren buy in their engines from others. Remember, the Ricardo engines used in all recent McLarens has been extremely reliable, there has been top-end wear reported by Thorney but this is usually attributable to poor maintenance, running the oil levels low. Otherwise reports of engine issues of any nature have been very rare.

I wouldn't be surprised if the engine supply deal with Ricardo is that if there is a failure during the warranty period, McLaren won't dirty their hands repairing it but they will expect Ricardo to send out a replacement, similar to Graziano with the gearboxes.

As far as I am aware Mclaren dealers are not allowed to strip engines farther than the very top end and even then if issues are found the engine is removed and goes back to Ricardo's and a new/reworked engine is supplied from Unipart/Woking and fitted on whatever engine number was used when it was built

Edited by Smoothound on Saturday 26th September 09:58

[LotusJas]

The Surveyor said:

I wouldn't be surprised if the engine supply deal with Ricardo is that if there is a failure during the warranty period, McLaren won't dirty their hands repairing it but they will expect Ricardo to send out a replacement, similar to Graziano with the gearboxes.

+1

[ChrisW.]

Is that the reason why on an MP412C out of warranty, Graziano were not allowed to supply the parts to replace a faulty oil seal and required a replacement of the complete gearbox at a cost of £18k ?

[Desert Dragon]

fridaypassion said:

Desert Dragon said:

I disagree. All Mcls are low volume exotic cars. Whilst not being matching numbers wouldn't put me off I'd definitely like a Mac with original engine if buying today. The 991.1 GT3 does not sell well speaking to indys I know well. They hang around a long long time.

Absoltuley nothing to do with the engines it's over production and poor spec with the Pork stuff.

Has any single person on here that's bought a used McLaren specifically asked if the car is on it's original engine?

Some people might own cars that aren't on the original engine right now and have no idea. They aren't £250k RS Porsches they are £300k modern exotics!