DBJoe996

Well, someone came up with another unique way to remove a Porsche engine (involves carnage) (don't try this at home) https://rennlist.com/how-tos/slidesh...n-road-drivers

Marv

Racing on the street (or simply driving too fast, which is ridiculously easy to do in modern cars) cost two owners $500K to $600K.

Bad idea to make a U-turn where you can't see traffic, too.

Glad no one was seriously hurt, but the downside is neither driver will likely see their involvement having any fault, and not likely to adjust their driving.

Woodman71

Might as well update the IMS bearing while the engine is out.

Idaho911

Is it designed to do that, or just a product of being rear engined? This is the second 991 (?) wreck I have seen recently where the engine separated from the car.

Mike Murphy

A rapid unscheduled engine removal procedure

Woodman71

I think it's a bit of both. Like a front engined car is designed for the motor to drop down rather than be driven into the cabin, I'd imagine the rear is the same. Then add lateral g-forces to it and, ZING! out it goes.

wdb

I'm sure it's not a safety design. The engine is attached to the car primarily by two mounts at the very rear of the car, and some bolts at the bell housing. Hit the car from the side, behind the wheels, and the mounts will shear, and so will the bell housing bolts.

Marv

On my car there is a crossmember running under the engine and a steel catch bolted to the engine designed to prevent the engine from being driven forward, but that is from a rear end collision.

Woodman71

I don't believe you, but ok.