Highest Mileage 951?

Was out dropping off some parts at my local machine shop and I spy this Alpine White 951 passing by so being very partial to White (I have one) and having a great deal of time on my hands (retired) I follow him home.

I introduced myself and struck up a conversation about his car. It’s an 86 with 355,700 miles on the odometer he’s guessing but the car should have close to 450,000+ the odometer broke EIGHT YEARS AGO!!

The engine has never been apart the head etc. He has maintained the belts and changed the oil religiously and only uses synthetic oil.

I found this very hard to believe but he claimed it still has the original clutch?????.
He drives the car everyday is the original owner and claims his 951 to be the best most reliable car he has ever owned.
Before going on vacation he heard some lifter noise so he took it to his mechanic left it for ten days the mechanic checked it found nothing wrong with it he picked it up the car started right up and no lifter noise.

Visually the car looks like it has every bit of 450,000 miles on it the interior looks like a junk yard reject.
Mr. X struck me as the type who demands his money’s worth out of a car and I would say he has gotten every pennies worth out of his 951.

No BS true story

 

i dont think any clutch, much less a 951 clutch holds up for 400k.

maybe he means the stock one was replaced with stock? as in- no modifications?

there's simply no way that i can concieve of.....


cool story though.

450k is a whole hell of a lot..........

 

If its all highway miles, and he babies the hell out of it...

 

More like 600,000 miles if he drove the same the last 8 years as he did the first 12.

That is incredible.

I saw one with 267,000 that had the original clutch. Highway miles.


Chris Cervelli
Premier Motorsports

 

How could anyone baby a 951? Good story though--thanks!

 

oh right, i remembered- sometimes there are 951 owners that never take it past 1/2 throttle.



that's a whole assload of miles, though....

 

Theres always people with the "OMG ITLL BLOW UP AT 3000RPM!!!!!!!!!" mentality....

 

Cool story!

I had a 83 944, and the sucker have 180K on the original clutch. It was that dam rubber center disc too. The only reason I change it was because I started hearing a strange cliking noise in the bellhousing. I took the stater out to look, and found a broken return spring on the pressure plate. that was it. I am sure that if it wasn't for that, it would have lasted at least another 40k easily. And I drove it hard, didn't abuse it, but I did drive it like it was meant to be. Some people under estimate how durable this car can be, when maintaine correctly.

True story!

Regards,
AL

 

Well that makes me feel a WHOLE lot better about my 140K mile 951! I always knew Porsches with good maintenece could last forever! Good story.

 

I had 136,500 on my odo when it broke about a year a go, and now my car has 96,000 miles with the new odo! Of course, i am keeping track of the correct mileage and staying away from resetting the trip odo and just letting it run. My car has had no major problems and I drive it like a porsche should be driven. I am waiting to get a career and an additional vehilcle before starting to mod. I have a lot of fun with my stock 86' 951 with borla catback.

 

89s :237,000miles, running strong. mods: K&N, LBE, unichip, and 15psi

 

That's funny how some people maintain that attitude. The 951 is useless below 3k.

 

159,000 mi and still kickin'! only mods are Autothority chips, borla cat back, and SFR stage 1 headers. I believe its on its second clutch tho. Time to tackle that oil pan gasket...

-Darwin

 

My other car (86 951) had 202k miles before it caught fire. Origional clutch according to the P.O.

 

And add to that the belief that a G-“force” (acceleration) above 0.1 in any direction constitutes reckless driving.