The Fixer

Found this while looking at a '80 928 euro i may buy.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...59026428,d.cWc

pcar928fan

Great article up till the last two paragraphs actually. Then he strays from reality a bit. While some T-belts have broken and ruined engines, it is actually quite a rare thing! But folks will read that and assume the author actually knows what he is talking about...unfortunately.

IcemanG17

agreed......clearly the author is mis-informed......and given the timeframe of when the engine was designed timing belts were considered MUCH better and most of the high performance exotic engines of its time also had belts, not chains!

The Fixer

I emailed the magazine to let them know what i thought about the piece and attached a video and a few pictures of the RS.

They responded in 12 hours (nice guy named Yoav Gilad) and asked to do a story on my car.
They may not be as down on the model as i thought. Just purists and
i get that.

It's a pretty cool magazine from what i've seen.

Told them i would think about it. Hope it wouldn't end the way this article did.

Red Flash

Yeah, I saw that a long time ago.

But aside from the mis-informed (shall we say populist?) statements about the 928, the website is kind of interesting.

I particularly liked the video linked to this page about the Lusso: http://www.petrolicious.com/ferrari-...morning-ritual

17prospective buyer

Only benefit over chains is noise and less frictional HP loss, less mass, amirite?

The Fixer

I think you're right.

My thoughts on 928 motors being unreliable:

My friend up the road has a 1972 911T, it has a re manufactured motor in it as the original was toast after 80K miles.

Following these nice motors were the 2.7 liter air cooled 911 motors up to 1977). They were garbage and still are regarded as such with serious chain tensioner issues that needed complete tear downs and updates to them.

('78-83) SC where/are reliable motors (fixd chain tensioning issue) but would backfire through their air cleaners and blow them apart.

3.2 L Carrera motors (84-89) have very weak connecting rod bolts that like to stretch the moment you exceed rev limit, also had head stud issues which are never cheap and easy. Not to mention premature valve guide failures (like at 50 k miles) There is more.

964 motors (89-92) had serious head gaskets issues and so on.

Modern Porsche 911/Boxster motors (water cooled) have had all kinds of SERIOUS reliability issues from main seals to oil leaking through porous castings. Porsche had to provide thousands of factory replacement motors.

Funny these serious 911 motor reliability issue are hardly mentioned and lets not forget lift off over steer accidents.

Ron's (AirtechHVAC) early 928 (#30) was pulled from a junk yard and is still running on the TB it came with.

soltino

That article has a high polar moment.

tino

17prospective buyer

My Nissan (and alot of other Nissan motors) has chains, can't complain, haven't even cracked open the motor and i'm at 330 000KM. They're deffinitely starting to get loose though, i can hear it.

The Forgotten On

928 engines are only unreliable if they are not properly maintained. 911 engines are somewhat unreliable even when maintained properly and regularly.

A 928 engine wouldn't go bad just because, there would have to be something wrong like an old TB or some serious vacuum leaks to cause problems.

Articles like these are the reason I ignore these types of articles are correct them in the comments section .