In reply to Adrian_Thompson:
I concur. A buddy of mine used to work at a local Porsche Dealership (about a decade ago) and they had a "clean room" that was used just to build motors and transmissions.
In reply to Adrian_Thompson:
I concur. A buddy of mine used to work at a local Porsche Dealership (about a decade ago) and they had a "clean room" that was used just to build motors and transmissions.
Ian F wrote: My guess is the replacement engines are being done more because it's faster/easier than a dealer tearing the engines down to fix the defect - especially when we're talking about a relatively small number of cars. I'm sure the yanked engines will go back to the factory, get fixed and then put on a shelf to serve and "remanufactured replacements".
This.
It's way easier/faster to swap the whole motor than to do a tear-down to fix. If the motor that comes out doesn't show evidence of the issue it will be easy to remediate it and put it into the re-man pool (or sell it to a race team).
Oh, I forgot, GT3 motor in a 914 wouldn't work, Porsche says you can't have a GT3 with a manual.
rustybugkiller wrote: Oh, I forgot, GT3 motor in a 914 wouldn't work, Porsche says you can't have a GT3 with a manual.
PDK in a 914 could be sweet.
they should of done this with the IMS failure cars, my friend lost TWO of those.
Hmm. One minute four seconds per car. 785 cars. A little math tells us that's just 14 shop hours. No wonder Porsche chose this route.
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