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I'm nowhere near you guys but I've got 35k in my 997.2 GT3.
Decided to go a little nuts with the suspension so she's getting OZ Superforgiata's, KW 3-way competition dampers (modified by KW to fit on a street car) and some R7's. Extremely excited/
Is it just me or is there something incredibly satisfying about a sports car that has done huge mileage like that with the maintenance records to suit?
2007 997.1 GT3 with 57K miles on it - probably about 1,000 on the track. Original PCCBs still fine
Rebuilding the clutch now as it was slipping from heavy Los Angeles traffic use.
Also replacing with a LWFW, crankshaft pulley, 4.0 clutch.
Also while car is up getting Sharwerks coolant pipes pinned ($325 parts, $2400 to drop engine ouch.)
Only to go wrong with car so far is a previously blew the coolant lines -which was covered under warranty - but wasn't pinned/welded at that time, as I didn't know about it.
Anyone got more around here, post your mileage here, I'm at 16K miles after exactly 24 months.
I have 8500 miles on my 18 Gt3. What a fun car to drive... I tool delivery this past October, put snow tires on and drove all winter.. I need to put the summer tires back on... This car turns in so hard I literally feel my guts shift in my stomach... I have never experienced a c at turning in so hard... Absolutley awesome...
37,000 on my 2007 997.1 RS. No problems, original clutch and PCCBs. No track time, and oil changed every 3000 miles (then sent to Blackstone for analysis every other oil change). SW 3.9 someday I hope.
It's been a while since I’ve last posted here about my life as a an avid GT3 owner. As Many of you already know I’ve had a long history of involvement with Porsche at many levels. I owned my first Porsche in 1962, a 1956 1600 N cabriolet. At age 15 I went to work for Vasek Polack when his store was still located at Supulvada and Longfellow in Manhattan Beach, no the Hermosa Beach store which most people now days associate with Vasek. These were the days when we went racing at Riverside Raceway, Santa Barbara and just about any large parking lot such as Dodger Stadium where they would allow us to spread out some hay bails and race. Our primary race car at this time was an ex factory RS 60, driven by an over weight Brit by the name of Jay Hill. I have many stories about those days but won’t bore you with those at this time.
Fast forward through those wonderful years of growing up on the white sands of Southern California beach’s and the dark years of the Vietnam conflict. Today I reside in Northern California approximately 2 1/2 hours from San Francisco on the coast which has some of the most exciting roads on the entire west coast. I am also about 2 1/2 hours from Sharkwerks which has played a very important roll in my GT story. I first became aquatinted with Alex 14 years ago when I read a plea from him on a 930 forum for some stock emissions parts for his recently purchased 930 which he needed in order to get it registered, I had just had some massive mods done to my 1986 930 and had everything he he needed and offered them to him. Thus started a friendship which has become more of an extended family relationship then a business/customer type. When I first picked up my 2007 GT3 from Neillo Porsche in Rocklin, which is another story all together, my first stop was Sharkwerks to show Alex and James what Porsche ownership was really all about, as at that time they were tuning 996 Turbos to go very fast in a straight line. That soon changed and Alex ordered the green GT3 RS which became known as Kermit! Both Kermit and my silver GT3 were the test mules through the process of many of Sharkwerks revolutionary interventions for their products of today. There was the exhaust by-pass, at one time Kermit was a 3.8 which was never released to the public as it wasn’t up to snuff by Sharkwerks standards and the the 3.9 which at the time I thought was the most wonderful motor in a Porsche I had ever driven! Kermit was the first 3.9 my silver GT3 was #2. I had logged nearly 34,000 miles before having the 3.9 conversation on my car and drove it nearly 60,000 trouble free miles before we were all curious to see how well everything was wearing and made the decision to tear it down and see what it looked like inside. ( I forgot to mention that at 66,000 miles I made a huge driving error and put my silver car into a tree, replacing it with my current 2007 white GT3 which we transplanted my original 3.9 motor and my transmission into) Once James had my 3.9 torn down he suggest that for only a few dollars more we could turn it into a 4.1 like the now famous .2 Sharkwerks RS Blufin which was based on the factory 3.8 Mezger, this would be their first attempt at creating a 4.1 from a 3.6 block! And man am I ever happy to have said yes to James suggestion, as much as I loved my 3.9, the power, torque and drivability it’s is pale compared to my 4.1. This car is just as happy driving down 19th Ave as it is romping through my favorite NorCal back roads. I do not have the vocabulary or journalistic ability to begin to put into words how great this 4.1 is. I now have over 11,000 miles on this built without one hiccup, I have always changed oil every 3,000 miles on all my vehicles even my diesel truck and believe this is the key to many happy, trouble miles.
Great story. Many of us may be relatively new to Porsche and it's great to hear these "background notes". It reads like a Panorama or Excellence article. So thank you.
01-24-2017, 07:47 PM
