Just when you thought it was safe... another coolant leak concern on GT3/GT3RS
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Was going to do all the cooling hoses as well...
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Mooty - This is unrelated to the pinning. This part is not likely to fail as soon or as drastically as the coolant line problem that the pinning fixes, but especially for track users, this will eventually break down and fail from what we've seen. If your car is new and has low miles it's unlikely it will fail.
After enough time and heat cycles/miles though, a pin hole leak appears where the o-ring slot is put into this plastic tube and the car will spray coolant once warmed up. As the opening gets bigger the leak will get worse. Our customer lost a gallon of coolant after 3 laps once this little hole appeared and we had to pull the engine to find the source of the leak!
After enough time and heat cycles/miles though, a pin hole leak appears where the o-ring slot is put into this plastic tube and the car will spray coolant once warmed up. As the opening gets bigger the leak will get worse. Our customer lost a gallon of coolant after 3 laps once this little hole appeared and we had to pull the engine to find the source of the leak!
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That 3.9 is sounding like a better and better deal.
You get to resolve almost everything Porsche didn't get right (Variocam adjusters, coolant pipes, mitigate the gearing gap due to the additional torque and RPM), get the better clutch and flywheel, exhaust bypass and DME... plus the additional 70 hp and 50 ft-lbs.
The only reason to put it off is that we keep finding new things that need to be fixed.
You get to resolve almost everything Porsche didn't get right (Variocam adjusters, coolant pipes, mitigate the gearing gap due to the additional torque and RPM), get the better clutch and flywheel, exhaust bypass and DME... plus the additional 70 hp and 50 ft-lbs.
The only reason to put it off is that we keep finding new things that need to be fixed.
PS Something very silver, mid-engined and cool is leaving here today:P
Thanks!
Cheers man... aye that part is a little weird. Maybe the tooling is old/off some I don't know. Or it's just cheap? Either way it's not my favorite part of 2012:P
Sod it guys I'm going back to aircooled lol
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Thank you sir... Hah... let's put it this way when James/I were in on a weekend and _finally_ figured out that leak he was not going to replace it with another plastic hose. He might have gone a bit otp but if there's a coolant leak somewhere in the engine it won't be from those two areas anymore
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Nice to see a US based company coming up with creative solutions for these cars and most importantly manufacturing the parts in the US under their own supervision. I wish more after market tuners and parts companies were straight up like that. Well done.
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On 997 versions there is one like this and then two "other" style ones.
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hey folks so on the one hand thanks for the support and glad to see these things being used and all... On the other hand I'm surprised so many engines are actually out for all sorts of reasons Actually makes me feel sad!
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hey fellas a few of you asked where these two pipes are located.. I'll show you just why the engine has to be removed to install these from a recent 3.9 SharkWerks build: