sharkster

Hey guys.. just a quick question, we rebuild/build up 996TT/GT2 engines to all sorts of crazy levels here but recently we've had the opportunity to do a one off 3.8L motor build on a GT3 as well. Bearing in mind that it turns out well (it has on the 996TT etc..), we have made up some 3.8L pistons, plasma coated liners etc.. I was wondering if anyone else would be interested in it? Depending on where we go with this thus far for pistons, liners, rings, clips etc.. it's in the 4.5K price range. Then there's our/your motor build on the top which can obviously vary (and get expensive). For the turbo guys that want big power/less lag this has made some sense but I'm pretty interested to see what happens here with this one. Obviously in Europe that's been going on for a while and at this stage we may also do a bunch of other tricks, knife edge the crank, boat tailing etc... Anyways I'll post pix of the project as it gets under way but I thought I'd throw it out there

DanH

Well the manthey 3.8l conversion costs about 30k euros, so you are winning on that front already

maximu5

Mahle 3.9 kit is approx $10k

///Mous3

Where can one see the hp/torque chart for those kits?

sharkster

Wow that's not exactly cheap... must include the engine build itself and a bunch of other parts?

mooty

alex,

call me when you have the 5.0L GT3 kit, LOL!

sharkster

LOL i know you want us to crack open that RS motor. I mean you're getting yours before we are so

DanH

Yeah that is the turnkey price and to be fair it is 3.9l :

http://www.manthey-motors.de/nextsho...pdf.asp?id=257

Serious amount of cash though!

LuisGT3

You have my attention Sharky. Subscribing to this thread. Let me know if you need a "test: car.

JEC_31

(subscribing for the pix & details )

sharkster

Great talking to you the other day and obviously it's going to be "more" for this "one off" deal for this chap but if all goes well then I can't see why we can't have some type of upgrade motor rebuilt kit. I've had TT motors shipped to us and I do know of a handful of places that could do the work so it might turn out well... We rebuild 996TT motors with 50-60K miles on them so I'm thinking someone who's tracked the heck out of a 996GT3 with 40K or so might at some point want to spend the 5K for our 3.8L kit and maybe some more on the headwork... Trouble will be the differences in motor-building...

NJ-GT

Alex, my car has 31k miles. Last year I requested a compression leak test, and all 6 holes where even. My expectation is to get 80k to 100k miles before a rebuild.

I doubt there is a street 996 GT3 engine being rebuilt due to age.

sharkster

hey nj-gt, you are _absolutely_ correct and this is something more future-proof that we have in mind. For the guys that will have these cars for ages and someday need some spring cleaning we'll be there. My reference to the 50K etc... was to cars that are tracked over and over and over again and more track than street. Around the bay area we have like 5 tracks that people are addicted to and couple that with some serious abuse (the odd mis-shift and other mishap) and you see where I'm going... The GT3 motor of all the 996s is likely the one to last the longest. We abuse the TT's way more but those aren't far behind

boqueron

And these Cargraphic parts http://www.cargraphic.com/index.php?...,article,1341/ for ...5.200 euros ( 4.000 US$ aprox..) ?

Mike K.

5200 eur = 6800 usd.