^^^ Well spoken!

I once bought a '65 356C with a salvage title due to "only" an engine fire, that was restored for personal use by a well respected owner of a Porsche body shop. When time to sell "but" turned off a lot of people.....

 

They say "it's never been tracked." Beware, you can do some serious crap on the street. Pull the DME on another GT2RS and see if their is any consistency.

 

*there

 

Fwiw on the na cars revlimiter hits don't trigger overrevs. Not range 1 or further.

 

Good to know; I hit it all the time.

 

Or rather frequently.

 

Here's something I don't understand. I owned a 997 2rs for about a year. I'll admit, I bounced off the rev limiter in 1st gear A LOT!!! And hard. I never money shifted anything, but u have to be damn quick to floor it in first and get anywhere near redline before you bounce it. Once boost kicks, you have to start shifting almost immediately.

Anyway, I didn't register a SINGLE range 1/2/3/4 over-rev the entire time I owned it. I didn't track it but I drove it plenty hard. So, if bouncing the rev limiter doesn't register over revs, why do so many 911 turbos supposedly have them unless they are tuned somehow???

 

If the car you are looking at is the silver one, I ran away after being enticed. F that noise. You want to rebuild a GT2RS engine? I don't and I am a dealer with access to techs and parts discount!!

The reason I bought the red one I have is because the reports etc are all something I can live with...as secret collector says (and he would know- he has had all these cars) you don't want buts if you are eventually selling.

Or better off- I'll agree to buy it off you for 100,000 less than you are willing to pay today. Let that sink in and imagine "but at least it's the color I like". Not really equitable.

 

Thanks for all your advise, I found another car different spec but everything seems to be checking out well, Im doing a PPI and hope its all fine

 

JRTaylor is spot on. Unlike NA motors, with Turbos, it is easy and common to register 1-3 (and even an anomalous 4) off a stock rev limiter bounce (I've owned a few TT's and a GT2). There is a slight delayed throttle response during shifting that you have to get used to. I have owned my GT2 almost its entire mileage life. I've never had a single bad downshift but I did bounce the rev limiter a few times while learning the car (dang near impossible not to through 2nd gear). I have registered 1-3's and one short anomalous 4 a long time ago. With a high number of 4's and 5's, it's either bad downshifts or more likely, and ECU tune where RL has been moved up 300-500. In that range, you have good reason to be concerned about resale value but you can either walk or negotiate the difference. On a closing note, I get far more suspicious on a 997 Turbo car when the DME is squeaky clean ;-)

 

^Agree with this, I'm not sure how any of the turboed cars can have a perfectly clean DME, unless you have considerable restraint, especially on the GT two once you're on boost it's hard to keep up with the shifting

 

banging off the rev limiter will never trigger an overrev count. that's the whole point of the rev limiter!

 

Wrong.

 

Not True.