Yep....as blue chip says....old news and old thread. KABOOM was two years ago....sorry to disappoint but car is healthy with a 997S engine and an additional 100hp😀

 

Yes, I was aware. Just trying to horn in on a most excellent C2 in the proper color. I gave it a go...

 

Did you pop the plenum apart to see if you have any oil pooled in the common oil pool points? If so, you may want to get that drained out - there's theoretically enough oil volume to hydrolock the engine, though smoky puffs is probably a much more likely result...

 

Lol....nice try😁

 

What was the reason for the kaboom?
Where there any warning signs while on the track that you can look back on?

 

Have you looked into the Motorsports AOS,? I can run full dipstick with no issues on my FSI 4,0 Stage III. I know they are expensive, but they work.

 

Every now and then i saw a puff of smoke on the track coming out of a turn once or twice per lap....everyone said its aos...too much oil. so net track day i lowered oil level to half. Same symptom and kaboom on a long right sweeper. one of My rod bearing had disintegrated. Crank shaft for that piston was completely worn.

 

Were you running a deep sump prior to the kaboom? Racing oil? Just curious.

 

Everyone answered your question already but FYI there was a TSB from Porsche on this about reducing the oil level from 9.25 to 8.75 and then performing a DME program to ensure the low oil light doesn't come on.

 

Where you doing any oil analysis on the car before this happened?

What was determined that caused the bearing failure?

How many miles on the motor?

 

Most likely oil starvation. Those long right sweepers and oil pressure drop I saw on my car is the reason I don’t track my car any longer. Porsche 996 = racecar, not.

 

yep, oil starvation was the cause on the 54k miles car. Of those miles probably 20% was track miles. it had no deep sump.

 

YES !! There was also a "new style" dipstick that was longer and the "full" mark was .5 liter lower and required a reprogramming of the cluster, to keep from overwhelming the AOS during high G forces. I think a better solution would have been keeping the oil out of the AOS in the first place. With all the track starvation issues that we are seeing, I'm wondering if SOME people are using the "new style " dipstick and programming and also lowering the level to half full, resulting in being a full liter low on oil?

 

Wow
10k for track miles that is a lot for a street car
Did you do all of those?

 

no....previous owner did most of those track miles....i had car since 47k for past 7 years....i have primarily been using car for track. over the four years everything has been replaced. time every mechanical thing has been replaced