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Porsche NA have issued track maintenance guidance/instructions for the GT4 - shades of GT3 centre locks.. specifying rear hubs and bearings change at 6k track miles and front and back hubs and bearings at 12k track miles. Also amusingly check rubber stops on rear lid at every 6k track miles.
The high track mileage may only be relevant to but a few but with the centre locks, OPC's were supposed to require sellers to disclose track mileage on cars they sold, but never did. I was never asked when I sold a centre lock equipped car to an OPC who knew the car have been tracked. Another pass the (liability) parcel job which does the brand no credit.
http://www.renntech.org/f...available/#entry274471
The high track mileage may only be relevant to but a few but with the centre locks, OPC's were supposed to require sellers to disclose track mileage on cars they sold, but never did. I was never asked when I sold a centre lock equipped car to an OPC who knew the car have been tracked. Another pass the (liability) parcel job which does the brand no credit.
http://www.renntech.org/f...available/#entry274471
In fairness, the track mileages suggested represent massive workload for the components mentioned.
It's worth playing the game on this.
The replacement parts are not expensive by comparison to a potential failure at real speed.
Accepting that there is huge safety-first in these figures is very reassuring.
But I know a man who had a hub carrier failure on his 964RS NGT at Spa --- he could have written himself and his car off and was lucky.
Calculate -- who will really do more than 200 miles on a hard track day ? Not many ... so 4000 miles is a lot ...
How many spanner checks is that per OPC proper proper check over ?
To put this in perspective, I did less than 1900 miles in a season of racing with test days, in the Porsche Club Championship ...
You know it makes sense
Sorry !!
It's worth playing the game on this.
The replacement parts are not expensive by comparison to a potential failure at real speed.
Accepting that there is huge safety-first in these figures is very reassuring.
But I know a man who had a hub carrier failure on his 964RS NGT at Spa --- he could have written himself and his car off and was lucky.
Calculate -- who will really do more than 200 miles on a hard track day ? Not many ... so 4000 miles is a lot ...
How many spanner checks is that per OPC proper proper check over ?
To put this in perspective, I did less than 1900 miles in a season of racing with test days, in the Porsche Club Championship ...
You know it makes sense
Sorry !!
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