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Last week I washed the car on Friday night, the dew and the pollen were bad so other than clean wheels it look dirty. Today got up early. Watched a bunch of You tube videos on the cayenne gts with the wife and now car cleaning. Yes had to start the day with caffeine, yes sir, old grand dad 100 and rebel 100 Coke Zero to add caffeine to the mix, Porsche Saturday is here vroom vroom. My trusted artic mug keeps it chilled. I haven’t had any coffee since April 12 2013.
Just got my new UAOS with track drain, as well as new LN IMS Retro, LN Low Temp Thermostat and OEM Oil Cooler. Love the look of new parts! See picture below.
Going in to see my Indy next week to have the parts put on the car. Its about time the parts are replaced again since its been ~10 years. My Porsche Motorsports AOS began to fail about a week ago with a muffled high pitched squeal. Just a few days earlier, it tested just fine with the manometer and oil cap test. A few days later I started it up, heard the squeal, tested the oil cap and with the manometer and it was failing. It was time to add Skip's UAOS to improve the durability of the AOS, but to also take advantage of the extra quart of oil it can run to help with oil cooling. The UAOS materials are very high quality and it looks killer. Looking forward to it being on the car!
My LN IMS Retro is 10-12 years old, has seen many track days and has performed beautifully. But since we are dropping the engine, its about time to replace it. I will eventually go with the IMS Solution when I get my engine rebuilt in a few years. In the meantime, I am using the cost savings for other parts that I will be replacing later this year in another visit to the Indy. Yep, will replace the RMS, check the clutch and flywheel as well, but don't think there are any issues.
This is my second visit to my Indy over the past two months, of which they went over the car with a fine tooth comb to look for leaks and test parts. Bores have been scoped, deep sump has been dropped and the bores and oil system are in great shape. No scoring and no debris. Fuel injectors were replaced, plugs, coils, sensors are all relatively new, but they were checked as well. Suspension and brakes are in great shape. Just need to get an alignment and corner balance. After this Indy visit, the next steps will wrap around adding more oil cooling and the UIDS. Next year will be a suspension refresh and then an exhaust refresh.
The 996 is a durable and incredible car if you change the oil often and systematically replace parts over time. What's not to like?!
Had the dealer replace the expansion tank and various SAI system parts while it was there. I’ve done a few jobs on my car as I slowly learn how to turn a wrench, but those jobs seemed well beyond my meager skills.
I should be able to pull off the headlight restoration and short shifter install I have lined up, though!
Just got my new UAOS with track drain, as well as new LN IMS Retro, LN Low Temp Thermostat and OEM Oil Cooler. Love the look of new parts! See picture below.
Going in to see my Indy next week to have the parts put on the car. Its about time the parts are replaced again since its been ~10 years. My Porsche Motorsports AOS began to fail about a week ago with a muffled high pitched squeal. Just a few days earlier, it tested just fine with the manometer and oil cap test. A few days later I started it up, heard the squeal, tested the oil cap and with the manometer and it was failing. It was time to add Skip's UAOS to improve the durability of the AOS, but to also take advantage of the extra quart of oil it can run to help with oil cooling. The UAOS materials are very high quality and it looks killer. Looking forward to it being on the car!
My LN IMS Retro is 10-12 years old, has seen many track days and has performed beautifully. But since we are dropping the engine, its about time to replace it. I will eventually go with the IMS Solution when I get my engine rebuilt in a few years. In the meantime, I am using the cost savings for other parts that I will be replacing later this year in another visit to the Indy. Yep, will replace the RMS, check the clutch and flywheel as well, but don't think there are any issues.
This is my second visit to my Indy over the past two months, of which they went over the car with a fine tooth comb to look for leaks and test parts. Bores have been scoped, deep sump has been dropped and the bores and oil system are in great shape. No scoring and no debris. Fuel injectors were replaced, plugs, coils, sensors are all relatively new, but they were checked as well. Suspension and brakes are in great shape. Just need to get an alignment and corner balance. After this Indy visit, the next steps will wrap around adding more oil cooling and the UIDS. Next year will be a suspension refresh and then an exhaust refresh.
The 996 is a durable and incredible car if you change the oil often and systematically replace parts over time. What's not to like?!
Very cool. Always a good feeling knowing everything is tip top.
The Porsche Motorsport AOS failed? Weren't they over engineered to be rather robust?
Very cool. Always a good feeling knowing everything is tip top.
The Porsche Motorsport AOS failed? Weren't they over engineered to be rather robust?
Absolutely, the MS AOS has proven to be very robust and really the only safe option for our cars until the UAOS was launched. Mine lasted over 10 years with countless track days. If Skip didn't invent the UAOS, I would replace my failing ms aos with another.
However, the UAOS is superior to the motorsports aos in design and functionality. Because the UAOS is a series of components versus one big plastic piece, you can replace components on the UAOS easily and cheaply, not to mention that the MS AOS could never run oil levels above full. Whereas due to the design of the UAOS, it can handle running an extra quart of oil above full, possibly more. This is HUGE for engine cooling, oil starvation mitigation, engine longevity and overall a safer, more durable and effective solution for both street and track.
Very cool. Always a good feeling knowing everything is tip top.
The Porsche Motorsport AOS failed? Weren't they over engineered to be rather robust?
The Porsche Motorsport AOS was designed to "hold" more oil in the body of the AOS (to keep it from going into the intake), It still uses the same drain hole/size as the Factory AOS, so the oil can't drain any faster to the sump, but it can "hold" more. "Holding" more oil does two things.1. It helps keep oil from going into the intake, 2. it lowers the oil level in the sump which has two effects, one good and one bad,(a) lowering the oil level in the sump helps to keep oil from overwhelming the AOS to begin with, (b) lowering the oil level in the sump causes more risk of oil starvation in high-G turns.
The UAOS w/XTDD on the other hand doesn't hold more oil in the body or the Accumulator ( but can run a higher initial oil level), it has an Accumulator that catches and oil that comes from the AOS, and the Accumulator has another drain to the sump. So neither the AOS or the Accumulator hold more oil, and USES TWO drains to return oil to the sump twice as fast and keep the oil level in the sump much higher to help reduce oil starvation in high-G turns..
The Porsche Motorsport AOS still has a rubber diaphragm that will eventually fail, and is in the same location as the Factory AOS.
Last edited by Porschetech3; 04-07-2022 at 05:42 PM.
The Porsche Motorsport AOS was designed to "hold" more oil in the body of the AOS (to keep it from going into the intake), It still uses the same drain hole/size as the Factory AOS, so the oil can't drain any faster to the sump, but it can "hold" more. "Holding" more oil does two things.1. It helps keep oil from going into the intake, 2. it lowers the oil level in the sump which has two effects, one good and one bad,(a) lowering the oil level in the sump helps to keep oil from overwhelming the AOS to begin with, (b) lowering the oil level in the sump causes more risk of oil starvation in high-G turns.
The UAOS w/XTDD on the other hand doesn't hold more oil in the body or the Accumulator ( but can run a higher initial oil level), it has an Accumulator that catches and oil that comes from the AOS, and the Accumulator has another drain to the sump. So neither the AOS or the Accumulator hold more oil, and USES TWO drains to return oil to the sump twice as fast and keep the oil level in the sump much higher to help reduce oil starvation in high-G turns..
The Porsche Motorsport AOS still has a rubber diaphragm that will eventually fail, and is in the same location as the Factory AOS.
Because of all the helpful info everyone supplied I finally broke down and pulled the center console of my 996 and painted it. It was a arduous process to keep the surface as smooth as possible as I layered on the paint and clear coat but turned out nice if I don’t say so myself!
04-02-2022, 08:29 AM
Are you near Birmingham???
