As far as smoke on start up goes. Does anyone, prior to shutting down the engine (after a spirited drive) let it idle while parked for about 90 secs? I've been doing this since day one and have never seen any smoke at start up.

 

I did that a few times and the car either didn't smoke or only had a small puff. Somewhere around 1000 miles mine quit smoking.

 

Good advice

 

My car smoked just a few times and all of that was when the car was parked on a driveway.

 

Nice to see this thread has been quiet. No news is good news I can only assume. Gives me hope....

 

Hey Guys, how can I determine the production Number of my engine? Its model year "F", April 2015 production, VIN is "...99ZFS1...".

 

While I have been trying to keep up with this thread, and at one point, have read through it completely, I will admit to have gotten a bit lost lost.

As such, please excuse what is probably a noob question. I am finally in a position to actively search for a GT3, preferably low mileage with a CPO. I've been watching the forum and used car sites for over a year now. Looks like plenty on the market and prices are softening.

All that being said, if I can find a car with low mileage that hasn't been tracked, do I really have anything to worry about? Any track days I might do would be rare (once a year) in the beginner class. In other words, I won't be hammering the car.

Should I be concerned about anything?

Thanks for your insight; the forum is amazing.

 

In some sense, cars with no track time or low miles may be worse off in the long run. If the problem is showing up after a certain number of engine revolutions, then tracked cars are more likely to experience it and get a new engine or the latest upgrade before warranty expiration. Low miles, no track cars are likely to get the problem after warranty expires.

 

Thread title ?

 

I have had my 2015 F engine GT3 for a month or so and the other day, after sitting for a day or so, when I started her up, the garage filled with white smoke. Reminded me of my old SC motor, which that was common. I presented this to the dealer, and of course, they said that with any high preformance motor, this will happen from time to time. So, is this true? Not sure if that would be considered normal in a modern engine with 5K. A sign of things to come, or does anyone else experience this on cold start? To be clear, no smoke after warm up, or hard acceleration. no noticable oil consumption, but only had the car for 3 weeks now and driven it a 100 or so miles.....Thanks

 

^ Nothing out of the ordinary and unrelated to valvetrain wear (which is the subject of this thread). More to do with rings and flat 6 design. Not all smoke but many do and at varying times depending somewhat on an individual's driving habits.

In short you shouldn't be concerned that you have an impending engine failure. Drive and enjoy!

 

Oil smoke is not white
that s due to the catalysers temp and humidity factors

 

I searched with no luck. I'm sure the answer is in here, my apologies. What warranty was applied to engines that were replaced in the original batch of 2014 cars? An extra year?

 

Yeh. 1 extra year up to 100,000k miles

 

Which is interesting as AP once stated they built the engine intending it to go 100,000 miles for its known use.