That Smell!!!
02-12-2010, 12:53 AM
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06 with 15,500 miles. Glad you brought this up, I smell it when it's been run hard at all. I asked the dealer about it too. Smelled it big time on my first track day. Kind of like it now.
02-12-2010, 10:44 AM
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02-12-2010, 11:32 AM
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car like a Lexus ES300. Enjoy your new and exciting ride, sans
that terrible Porsche smell.
02-12-2010, 11:38 AM
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You know what other smell that I think is icky and should be eliminated, is that terrible exhaust smell of the twin 350 Mag Mercruisers in a 34 foot Formula SS when the Corsa Exhaust is open and the boat is gurgling by the dock.
It just smells too racey.
It just smells too racey.
02-12-2010, 11:49 AM
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I can only wish for my 997 car to live same life as ES300 does. It got 170K miles now on odometer.
02-12-2010, 12:08 PM
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A 997 is a luxury GT car, not a pure sports car. There is simply zero reason for it to have odd smells after say 5k miles.
If this were a stripped down race car, you would certainly have a point...but considering the nature of a 997, you don't.
02-12-2010, 12:13 PM
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NO! Don't tell him that! Tell him to get a front engined Porsche. One which doesn't have the engine wrapped in extremly hot headers and exhaust pipes all located between two hot sticky rubber tires.
02-12-2010, 12:15 PM
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If the cosmoline smell bothers you that much, take a brush, some Simple Green, and a bucket of water and scrub the cosmoline off the lower part of the engine, then rinse with water. Most of the smell will go away. 
02-12-2010, 12:18 PM
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For a seemingly smart guy, you make some awfully dumb posts.
A 997 is a luxury GT car, not a pure sports car. There is simply zero reason for it to have odd smells after say 5k miles.
If this were a stripped down race car, you would certainly have a point...but considering the nature of a 997, you don't.
A 997 is a luxury GT car, not a pure sports car. There is simply zero reason for it to have odd smells after say 5k miles.
If this were a stripped down race car, you would certainly have a point...but considering the nature of a 997, you don't.
Although it is a matter of opinion, the 997 is reasonably far from a luxury gt car. It can surely be optioned as one but luxury is not what comes to mind when I sit in my $100,000 car with no navigation, poor stereo, silly cup holders, rough ride and incredibly tight cabin. The steering wheel is hard and gives a tremendous amount of feedback and road noise is brutal by todays standards. My 2010 golf feels like a Bentley compared to my 997.
The 997 is a polished up derivative of a very successful racing platform. Its daily drivability and practicality has come a long way since the days of the air cooled cars and is by no means a stripped out race car (other than the gt3rs).
There is no denying the pedigree of a 911 is race car based. With vehicles like these you take the good with the bad. I don't suggest you should not voice your dissatisfaction with the smell but realize that it wasn't put there for the hell of it, it has a purpose and if the engineers didn't think so, they'd save the money and not use it.
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02-12-2010, 12:27 PM
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Funny...my Ferrari 360 Spider and F430 Spider did not smell in the least bit. And, oh, by the way, the engines in those cars are not in front.
02-12-2010, 01:12 PM
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Ummm no.
Although it is a matter of opinion, the 997 is reasonably far from a luxury gt car. It can surely be optioned as one but luxury is not what comes to mind when I sit in my $100,000 car with no navigation, poor stereo, silly cup holders, rough ride and incredibly tight cabin. The steering wheel is hard and gives a tremendous amount of feedback and road noise is brutal by todays standards. My 2010 golf feels like a Bentley compared to my 997.
The 997 is a polished up derivative of a very successful racing platform. Its daily drivability and practicality has come a long way since the days of the air cooled cars and is by no means a stripped out race car (other than the gt3rs).
There is no denying the pedigree of a 911 is race car based. With vehicles like these you take the good with the bad. I don't suggest you should not voice your dissatisfaction with the smell but realize that it wasn't put there for the hell of it, it has a purpose and if the engineers didn't think so, they'd save the money and not use it.
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Although it is a matter of opinion, the 997 is reasonably far from a luxury gt car. It can surely be optioned as one but luxury is not what comes to mind when I sit in my $100,000 car with no navigation, poor stereo, silly cup holders, rough ride and incredibly tight cabin. The steering wheel is hard and gives a tremendous amount of feedback and road noise is brutal by todays standards. My 2010 golf feels like a Bentley compared to my 997.
The 997 is a polished up derivative of a very successful racing platform. Its daily drivability and practicality has come a long way since the days of the air cooled cars and is by no means a stripped out race car (other than the gt3rs).
There is no denying the pedigree of a 911 is race car based. With vehicles like these you take the good with the bad. I don't suggest you should not voice your dissatisfaction with the smell but realize that it wasn't put there for the hell of it, it has a purpose and if the engineers didn't think so, they'd save the money and not use it.
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While it may be derived from a racing platform, there is simply no reason why the car should smell funny. There is significant shielding between tires and exhaust/engine.
A 911 hasn't been a raw sports car since the 80s.