Nizer

Rev limiter protects on the way up. Nothing to protect when you grab the wrong gear on the way down.

malmasri

Evident by 3 of my friends needing to rebuild motors after a weekend at Daytona last December.

Carrera GT

This is a misconception. It's not just the "money shift" that will exceed the redline. Any time the engine is near the redline, if one or more tires loses traction, it's possible to exceed the limit. You can imagine getting airborne at a crest, a rear tire going over a painted berm in the wet, downhill or partially releasing the clutch for an upshift without having first started to close the throttle.

As I understand it, the additional types of rev overlimit events include reference to throttle position as well as rpm ranges.

SSTHO

Uh-oh, so I am a child with confidence issues?! Lol.

I use my cheap Porsche RS Spyder watch for summer or sports. It tells time and don't care if I scratch it up. As much as I love Porsche, I could never bring myself to purchase a PD watch. Not my style.

Peter, you think DE is expanding? Anyone else feel that way? I would have thought the opposite with all the hybrid, green initiatives. Maybe there's no real track around here for people to gey excited about.

Carrera GT

I don't think track driving is growing, but perhaps the rate of decline has abated. With the costs and insurance issues, the lack of facilities and woeful logistics, at least around California, it's a painful, tedious, expensive and difficult sport. People think of snow skiing or sailing as wildly expensive, golfing is exclusive and so on, but you don't have to buy $100K of skis and risk destroying them every second you're on the slopes, nor do you have to buy a $2000 pair of boots every three days ... etc. etc. Not much confusion about why track driving isn't booming. Now we have noise regulations and Porsche has sullied its reputation for standing behind its product so you can go into the dealer and they'll deny warranty because you've been photographed by PCNA at the track or they'll low ball you on trade-in and start every conversation with "have you tracked it?" As ever, Porsche takes square aim at its own foot and proceeds to milk the calf while staring the gift horse in the mouth.

TRAKCAR

Well you live on the wrong coast.

You live on the wrong coast as wel.
Here for sure it's growing fast. Cheap gas, low taxes, no one cares about emissions or noise, except for the bible belt areas.

I send my track video's to my dealer's X man and never had a non warranty issue. Track insurance underwriters are awesome, local and fellow DE participants.


Florida is DE paradise.

Carrera GT

Whatever car you get next, don't breath a word of it to the dealer, don't post about it on-line, take the plates off and tape over the VIN. If it goes to a dealership for service, have it detailed and and restored to an unremarkable condition (no cameras or numbers or timers or harnesses or slicks or layers of tire rubber on the paint. Otherwise, well, it's not up to the dealer staff, it's the regional stooges that make the decisions.

As for CA vs FL, I've made my bed, but that's why I mention, it's different here and there (especially overseas where driving is not a thought crime.)

savyboy

Correct (of course).

Any GT3 driven with gusto should expect to be found to have range 1 (many) and range 2 (some but much less) overrevs. My Cayenne with a freaking 8 speed automatic transmission has a few range 2 overrevs. Unless someone is simply seeking an excuse to worry, it is nothing to be concerned about.

Money shifts (range 3+) are the ones to cause genuine concerns.

BBMGT3

On my last ignition check, I had 48 Range 1s, and zero 2-6. Felt good.

carcommander

There is a season for things.

Snowboarder54

Yes, and when you live in the mild climate of No Ca somethings can be enjoyed for all seasons, maybe that's why Mooty still collects GT3's

mooty

sundial, surprising accurate. more so than most expensive watches.

mooty

i have an iphone.
it has a clock?
which button/icon do i push?

cgt:
IWC is not bad. but really only BP and Portuguese and BE are worth getting.

mooty

not today.
maybe few more months, who knows.
i do "empirical" experiments. it's still not done yet.

TRAKCAR

How about a few weeks?