How many 15-16 gt3's have engine replaced?
12-15-2021, 07:01 PM
#2866
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12-16-2021, 12:20 AM
#2867
I had a misfire in July and took it in to the dealer. They told me coils and plugs so I bought new coils and plugs just changed them out my self. The misfire went away until now.
12-16-2021, 10:15 AM
#2868
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Lucky for me here in the North east the weather has being great so i’ve driven the car more often till the 1st snow we get then it’s away until 2022 season. By that time I’ll be tracking the car a lot more so maybe then I’ll have the misfire come back.
told him to send me a pic to confirm.
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12-27-2021, 03:07 PM
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12-29-2021, 11:07 PM
#2874
I picked up the GT3 from the dealer this afternoon, with new engine #G61581 installed. Just got home from burning a tank of gas to get the first 300 miles of break-in procedure out of the way. As others have mentioned, the G6 sounds a little more refined and loses some of the rattling metal noises at idle and low RPM. Kept it below 5,000 RPM for the first 300 miles and I'll gradually bump that up over the next 500 or 600 miles.
Dealer did show me what the invoice would have looked like had this not been a warranty item - right around $50k for the engine itself and around $2,500 labor to diagnose the problem and swap the engines.
Hoping for many trouble-free years/miles from this point on!
Dealer did show me what the invoice would have looked like had this not been a warranty item - right around $50k for the engine itself and around $2,500 labor to diagnose the problem and swap the engines.
Hoping for many trouble-free years/miles from this point on!
12-29-2021, 11:43 PM
#2875
I picked up the GT3 from the dealer this afternoon, with new engine #G61581 installed. Just got home from burning a tank of gas to get the first 300 miles of break-in procedure out of the way. As others have mentioned, the G6 sounds a little more refined and loses some of the rattling metal noises at idle and low RPM. Kept it below 5,000 RPM for the first 300 miles and I'll gradually bump that up over the next 500 or 600 miles.
Dealer did show me what the invoice would have looked like had this not been a warranty item - right around $50k for the engine itself and around $2,500 labor to diagnose the problem and swap the engines.
Hoping for many trouble-free years/miles from this point on!
Dealer did show me what the invoice would have looked like had this not been a warranty item - right around $50k for the engine itself and around $2,500 labor to diagnose the problem and swap the engines.
Hoping for many trouble-free years/miles from this point on!
where are you located? I’m waiting on my dealer to give me a schedule of when they will start the swap.
12-30-2021, 10:32 AM
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I picked up the GT3 from the dealer this afternoon, with new engine #G61581 installed. Just got home from burning a tank of gas to get the first 300 miles of break-in procedure out of the way. As others have mentioned, the G6 sounds a little more refined and loses some of the rattling metal noises at idle and low RPM. Kept it below 5,000 RPM for the first 300 miles and I'll gradually bump that up over the next 500 or 600 miles.
Dealer did show me what the invoice would have looked like had this not been a warranty item - right around $50k for the engine itself and around $2,500 labor to diagnose the problem and swap the engines.
Hoping for many trouble-free years/miles from this point on!
Dealer did show me what the invoice would have looked like had this not been a warranty item - right around $50k for the engine itself and around $2,500 labor to diagnose the problem and swap the engines.
Hoping for many trouble-free years/miles from this point on!
I had my engine replaced months ago with engine #G61792.
01-06-2022, 01:20 PM
#2879
Just heard back from dealer today, misfire verified and camshaft code is stored in the ECU. SA tells me it looks like a pretty cut and dry valvetrain related failure and engine warranty should be applicable. If the engine gets ordered this week, should only be a few weeks for transit + a couple days for install. Time to start curating a list of twistys to go drive during break-in!
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Service records indicated valvetrain failure as culprit, which escalated to catastrophic damage and nearly complete compression loss in one cylinder, kaboom. I did not pay a single dime for the engine replacement.
The only gripe I have about the entire process is that the dealer seems to have used some powerful degreaser to wash the car, which has full PPF+ceramic... this is after telling them to take the PPF into consideration several times when working on the vehicle. The vinyl model designation on the rear bumper was missing a letter, and the remaining letters had lifted at the edges, peeling off with no effort at all. This is a concern because I had washed the car several times prior with proper PH soap for PPF and that lettering was stuck on really well. On top of that, the PPF's finish is visually cloudy, the car looks like it was washed by a kid with a grudge against reflections. Really worried that whatever chemical they used (degreaser??) might cause the PPF to unstick prematurely down the road, which would not be cheap to replace.
SA informed me that I could just "drive the car" but I'm electing to be a bit OCD about break-in procedure, mixing loads and low/mid rpm's (<6.5K) in the first 500 miles on twisty roads, change the oil at 500, taking it easy until I have ~1,100 miles on it, change the oil again with sample for blackstone report to track wear, then full send.
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01-06-2022, 01:28 PM
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I didn't notice any significant difference in sound or behavior across the three engines in my 991.1 GT3. I did break-in according to the rules for each engine. First engine lasted about 30K miles, second only 8K miles; we'll see how long the third one lasts.
