Skip, how often would you change the oil?

 

That's interesting. I used Swepco in all my air cooled Porsches and I use it in a 50/50 mix with Redline in the M5 but I didn't know it was a thing for *modern* cars.
As far as the 996, based on my Amazon order history, I'm using either Motul or Redline. I don't remember which.

 

I shoot for every 40K on the gear oil, but I don't sweat if I miss it a little. The Factory recommends every 120K, but I think they always overestimate that stuff to give a lower "cost of ownership" report. We have seen a lot of pinion bearings go out in the g96 transmissions at around 80K..

We bought the Swepco 201 in 10 gallon drums with a pump and wheels at the Porsche Dealership, until we changed Service Managers, he said it was too expensive...

 

Here's an old RL thread that has addition info on transmission oil => https://rennlist.com/forums/996-foru...nsmission.html

 

Interesting. The guy who just finished a 5-figures rebuild of my G50 transmission said absolutely do not use Swepco and recommended Motul 300LS. Since he's built hundreds if not thousands of these gearboxes I will follow his recommendation.

 

Think I've seen this more and more since using Driven products.

 

Yea, like I said, everyone has their favorite flavor. I usually stay out of these.

If you really want to see heavy debates on oils, you should be involved in dirt bike groups and get started on two-stroke oils. Lots of pictures of sized pistons as proof of condemning some oils, and testimony of never had failure as proof of favorite flavor.

I built my first two-stroke in 1969 at 13yo..

 

LOL! Yup. What they rarely mention about the seized piston is the dozen other factors (air temps, mix ratios, jetting, warm up, etc, etc). Still nothing better than the smell and sound of a finely tuned 2 stroke running castor oil.

 

I definitely miss the smell of Castrol R, almost as much as riding!

 

Yeah I stuck more than my share of two stroke dirt bikes and racing karts. Never blamed the oil. Usually my fault for running them too lean. Lean is mean...but deadly!

 

Absolutely ,nothing smells better than a two-stoke burning castor bean oil...I miss my old CR500AF.

If some would make a cologne that smelled like that , I would buy it.. https://www.facebook.com/tractioneragmagazine/videos/526854342099573

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=526854342099573

 

My 996 TT's Getrag gearbox was ruined by the previous owner using aftermarket gear oil and taking it out of the "dealer only serviced" records (famous athlete who became dishonest and started cutting corners after he blew all his endorsement money). I had to send it to Stan at GBox, fixed it good as new....but it was not cheap. Never use anything but the OE fluids in these gearboxes.

 

I always wanted and AF!

 

Baseball player?

 

i use to formulate test these products. The issue with small companies is that a bunch of them don’t get the proper testing approvals done by a third party. I don’t know anything about the driven gear oil but if it’s like their motor oil which doesn’t have any formal approvals on it. I would not putt it in one of my p cars even if it was given free to me. Mobil and porsche work a lot in testing and developing, since I saw worked with Valvoline Cummins i can definitely say that Mobil would know have information about a lot of stuff that other oil companies even the small independents will never see. You are free to put whatever you want on your car. Once again a retired CLS certified lubrication engineer , I use Mobil 1.