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Update: Car no longer for sale... she's staying for 2019!
Motorsport just confirmed my allocation for a new car next season... thus planning to sell my current 2018 991.2 Cup at the end of November:
Car campaigned exclusively within Porsche Carrera Cup Asia from new, for only one season by a single Bronze driver
No-expense-spared maintenance (e.g. fluids, brakes, belts, windscreens, clutch, driveshafts all changed well inside of intervals)
Retubbed, and received PAG-sealed rebuilt engine and gearbox just this August, all certified to Carrera Cup technical standards
(those who have been through the official series know this is a high bar; the PAG delegates will call out and replace just about anything if they don't like the look of it)
To be delivered with less than 8 hours on the current tub, engine and gearbox at time of delivery (currently at 5 hours, but have one more round before season-end)
Optional supercup exhausts (straight pipes), standard center muffler, safety nets, two sets of wheels, Krontec air lance
This is by far the lowest-hour 991.2 to be offered into the secondary market, in large part due to a $$$$ rebuild following a side-on impact destroying the old tub's left suspension pickup+drivetrain. The ensuing replacement costed well over €130k (invoices available) and gave birth to effectively a new car (save for the right-side suspension, right side bodywork and cockpit). I have been campaigning her since, and have every expectation to contest the podium in November
My original plan has been to run her next season, but the availability of a brand new car from PAG could change things around. With a 2019 car I'll be on the same equipment as the sharp end of the grid next year...
Last edited by CRex; 11-22-2018 at 11:27 AM.
Reason: No longer ford sale
Update: we've dropped the enduro event in November which means the car will be delivered with < 8 hours on the engine+gearbox+chassis.
Mileage looked like this as of last weekend. Rebuild was done at 1724km when PAG reset the hours to zero.
p.s. To think about it, (2344-1724)/4 = 155km/h... and that's inclusive of what must've been an hour's time of engine warmup for all the sessions! Maybe I'm faster than I think
Last edited by CRex; 10-10-2018 at 02:35 AM.
Reason: Uploaded better picture and did some potato math...
So I’ll ask the other obvious question: why swap out of essentially new 2018 into a 2019 when there are no year-on-year changes to the platform?
Entirely fair question. Our series goes to 992 in 2021. Meaning if I pick up a MY19 car I can run till the end without needing rebuild. The sharp end of the grid are all doing this to minimize the unknown come end-of-2019, when we'll have one final year and folks may/may not have to invest in visual inspections or interim work.
That said I recognize I'm in a more ambiguous position vs. others, as my MY18 will only have 7-8 hours (vs. others' ~25-30) come November. Hence my Plan B is to keep running this car if it doesn't sell. And in that Plan B, I'll budget for gearbox refresh end-2019 and possibly shock replacement, to make sure I'm as close to the MY19 cars as possible.
Final consideration is my resale come end-2020. I'm not sure if I'd want to be selling a high-hour car when the market switches to the 992 and supply of 991.2 will be at a max. Net-net I may have a case of "take some hit now, have less of an unknown down the road".
(Reference: engine lifetime is 100H and gearbox 60H in the .2 but some teams may start itching at 2/3rds of those intervals)
She's here to stay! Had a couple (real) close calls at the season finale but otherwise finished on a high note... she's gonna spend the winter in a warmer climate and will be back on the grid next year
10-03-2018, 12:03 PM
FS: 2018 991.2 GT3 Cup - Low Hours
