CALSE

Does anyone know what the latest motor updates/revisions are? Based on what I read:

1. DLC coated FF and camshaft
2. Oil filter
3. Oil pressure increase

Breaking in my 4th motor.

dark knight

wow, thats messed up and cool at the same time

Jzips

Wow! So you had 2 brand new replacement motors blow up? All from the same issue? Wouldn’t the issues have been resolved in the new replacement motors before you were given them?

rodsky

Is the motor still changing or is it just the latest G iteration (as it was in 2016).?

robmypro

Can you tell us the dates you had the motors replaced?

Izzone

Sorry to hear that

They design is flawed..they will never fix it

All 991.1 including RS and R will have same problem

dgoldenz

Since breaking in the first 3 motors didn't seem to help at all, might as well just beat the crap out of the fourth one and hope it blows again before the warranty expires =)

poison123

When and how did the motors go?

obbob

When were the motors replaced? That will determine what updates your motors had.

Also, any Porsche part comes with a 2 year warranty, regardless of any factory warranty. Theoretically you could have infinite engine warranty if you keep blowing up motors within 2 years of install :P

Cay_PI

1st engines replaced because the manufacturing issue (rod bolt)
The replacement engines like to suffer from the problem.
From then they changed parts in the heads (I think it was the finger followers and valve soprings, maybe also the cams) from febraury 2015 and increased oil preasure for all engines via software. Heared ofno engine that failed yet.
From Mid 2015 (MY 2016 = G / RS engines) they introduced a slightly different oil pump, that should not be relevant but also modified the head for better oiling. Interestingly, I heared of one engine that failed.
From Mid 2016 (G6 - the current engine version for GT3 and RS / R) they introduced DLC-coated camshafts. The finger followers are DLC coated from the beginning.

So thats why it would be interesting, when you got your 2nd and 3rd engine.

CALSE

1st: Recall 6/2015
2nd: Finger Follower CEL 6/2016
3rd: Finger Follower CEL 5/2019
4th: TBD

dewilmoth

Well that's isn't very confidence inspiring.

SanDiegoDavid

Actually the recall was 1/2014 and extended till July 2014.

tstafford

OP: No judgment here at all (I swear) - are you tracking the car heavily/regularly?

CALSE

Good question. Approximately 20 hours of HPDE time on 3rd motor. Didn't keep a log on 2nd motor as I was not aware of the finger follower issue. I have over 40,500 miles total on the ODO.