Macca

Thanks Guys. The good news is they put hi under and stabilized him (heat rate and blood pressure more normal although still lungs filling with fluid and suspected internal damage). The bad news is the Medi-vac Jet had to turn around half way from New Caledonia and return due to technical fault. No a Jet has to come from Australia so it will be another 8 hours before hes in a proper hospital. Some bad compound fractures too. Right now things are looking better than 7 hours ago but still not out of the woods yet.

Happy Thanksgiving. And be thankful! Try not to worry about white exhaust steam on cold European morning start up when that pre production example GT3 had been sitting outside overnight LOL!

mooty

macca, my prayers with your friend.

smoking at start up, leaking sitting around.. WTF is all this drama. just put gas in and step on the gas pedal, ignore all the stupid warning lights and have fun.

silverrules

Macca, My prayer for your friend and I am sure he will pull through. Key is to get them to the right hospital which you guys are already doing. Take care Macca!

MaxLTV

Macca, sorry to hear about your friend. People are more important than any things or hobbies we have. I don't know how you feel, but I've experienced similar situations, and they just made most of the things I am passionate about seem so small and unimportant that I was ashamed they're even in my head. But when things are back to normal, it's those passions that make us human. Wishing quick and full recovery to your friend.

markow

macca,
this brought back the bad memories of a car accident we had in a taxi in the KSA a week ago: the taxi got off the highway and rolled over, at 120km/h, no other car involved.
we got out rather unharmed but a little move of the divine dice could have easily gotten us killed.
for the good or bad this annihilated all future cabriolet thoughts for us....
all the best to your friend,
peter

CAlexio

cabriolet gt3 eh?... We finally have some good Internet rumors to sink our teeth into

markow

OMG, of course i meant to say that we shall never buy any cabriolet after the accident.
peter

the_vetman

Umm, did you mean to type "normal"?? That's condensation being shot out. Completely normal. Any Porsche owner should know this.....

My car does it pretty much every single time I start it. There's a trail of water vapors on the garage floor and exhaust tips. I've checked - it's H20.

Macca, best wishes to your mate.

911dev

Exactly! So is occasional blue smoke on GT3 start ups.

Another best wish to your friend Macca.

911dev

lol

ShakeNBake

macca, my kids and I are praying for your friend

TomTomGTA

That would be me that Macca is citing ;-)

First of all, Hello to all of you!! I have been reading the forum for quite some time but decided to post now, you have all made my wait a bit shorter!

BTW Macca all the best to your mate!

The car smokes on startup in cold weather (is even stated in the manual) I thought all Porsche's do that?
It even smokes from the front radiator through the grille in front of the hood when it's hot after a spirited drive and standing in traffic, looks rather frightening in the begining ;-).

If you have any questions, shoot away!

I'm getting the Winter tires tomorrow and I'll update then.

997TTMeteor

Which winter tires & what sizes?

TomTomGTA

Tires in the front same size as Summer tires and in the back 295/30. Those are homologated on the official Papers (same size as winters for the Turbo S).
I've got Pirelli Sottozero III N0 homologated, I believe there a Michelin Alpin in that size too as well as some Continental (apparently they're crap).

CAlexio

We want to see a gt3 doing some big snow drifts TomTom, and we hope you're the man who will bring those pics to us :-)