AudiOn19s

There are quite a few apartment complexes in the area and back when we were shopping apartments last year they all had plenty of extra garage spaces available. How willing they are going to be to rent them out to someone not living there I'm not certain but empty garages are lost revenue for them so there's no harm in asking. Having the car close is important because you'll find if it's too far away you'll pass up opportunities to use it because it's such a pain in the rear to go pick it up and drop it back off.

The GT3 RS 4.0 was the last of the Metzger Engine in the street car. With the 2014 GT3 they moved away from the Metzger block in favor of newer, cleaner and cheaper technology much to the dismay of the purists who own the current generation of cars. Just like they shit on the manual transmission they also shit on the heritage that came with that particular engine. Back in the day that motor was developed and raced FIRST and then put in the street car in order to meet racing regulations. What that provided was an over-engineered solution in the street cars that everyone has come to know and love. So the new GT3 has a new design motor. The rub is the current race cars still have the Metzger engine sparking even more debate. The result??? on 2/22 Porsche issued an order to all owners to stop driving any '14 GT3 that had already been delivered. They sent flat bed trucks to pick them all up, dealers had to stop delivering cars and every car that came into the country is being held in shipping port. Turns out there's an issue with the connecting rod bolts backing out causing engine failure which is bad enough BUT the engine failures are resulting in engine fires which will completely burn the car to the ground in the event that it happens. Every single '14 GT3 is going to have to get a replacement engine to fix the problem. They are still working on the "fix" and have not even started building replacement engines yet. Meanwhile cars are just sitting waiting for a resolution. I love Porsche but they really f'ed up on the new car on soo many different levels. That's the driving force behind the values of 3.8 RS and 4.0 RS cars in the current market. That 4.0 was Maybe a $200k car NEW to give you some perspective. The 4.0 market has cooled off a little some but most are still fetching > 300k.

It was a really good watch. As an old timer I'm always pulling for Rossi but that kid is impressive esp given he's riding with an injury right now. Sad to see even with the concessions the open bikes get this year that they are soo far off the pace. Disappointing to see Nicky riding around without even a fighting chance this year.

it's gonna be at least that long before they fix all the damn holes in the roads. Man they took a beating this winter. I'm not putting the 19's back on the Audi till mid May at this point. Those wheels have gone over a decade without being hurt but I'm not going to chance it this spring.

the plus side is that those cars have been at the bottom of their depreciation curve for a couple of years now. So you're not going to buy it and loose money on it in the short term at least and there's always WTB E55 wagon posts on the various forums so it's a safe bet you can sell it if you want. The downside is that while it's rare...it'd be a whole lot more attractive if it didn't have 100k miles on it. Collector car and high mileage generally do not go together. They are great cars too...I've been thinking about selling mine for a couple years now (not wagon) but can never actually bring myself to follow through. I'm probably going to get my wife a different daily and start using the benz as my daily

The fuel flow thing is stupid on top of already limiting them to 100L of fuel. If you can back off and conserve fuel in the middle of the race to insure that you can make it to the end on fuel but get penalized for turning the thing up to defend your position at the end I find that ridiculous. The penalty should be you run out of gas...and if you don't then you've done a fair job of fuel management if you ask me. Williams could be the sleeper this year I'm excited to see if they can keep up as the year progresses. Red Bull isn't as far off as many imagined them to be. Mercedes made it look EASY...25 seconds after a safety car in the middle of the race and you have to imagine he wasn't even going as hard as he could. Had Hamilton's car not crapped out we may have seen those two really push each other for the win and gap the field even more. Upset Ferrari didn't do any better than they did. DRS never worked on Kimi's car the whole race. Though it was never released there was good theory that his ERS was not functioning properly causing brake bias issues. Fernando seemed to have a pretty uneventful race but neither car had much pace they just survived.

Qualifying was pretty crazy, can't wait for the race tomorrow.

I'm quickly turning into a grumpy old purist. I can appreciate the technology I just resist the temptation to adapt. PDK gear boxes, electronics that optimize traction, hybrid systems to increase performance...all of it is fantastic just not for me...at least not yet I drove a Tesla Model S P85 last week and liked it but hated it on principal. Left me really torn after the drive. So I get what they are trying to do, just wish the rules were different. I'll watch and enjoy the racing no matter what.

Watched p1 and p2 as well. As with most I can't stand the sound. I thought the Force India team owner comments were spot on I also hate going slower for more green technology and managing fuel to not run out. I hope the racing makes up for the changes, like you I'm not convinced it will. At this point we might see half of the cars or less finish the first race.

I'd like to see what mine makes after a couple of changes last year. Guessing 375whp based on where it was before. took a few more lbs out of her over the winter she should be right about 2900lbs now.

V99 is best of those three Every time I look at my cracked, useless forgestsrs decorating the garage I want to stab myself for spending money on them

There's a GT silver '08 turbo on rennlist right now for $82. 10k more miles than the white car but gives you an idea how high the price is on the white one.

It's Bryan just for technicality sake...I sent you a PM with his contact info.

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http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail.jsp?tracktype=usedcc&csDlId=&csDgId=&listingId=138144014&listingRecNum=14&criteria=feedSegId%3D28705%26rpp%3D50%26isDealerGrouping%3Dfalse%26sf2Nm%3Dmiles%26kw%3Dgt2%26requestorTrackingInfo%3DRTB_SEARCH%26sf1Nm%3Dprice%26sf2Dir%3DASC%26stkTypId%3D28881%26PMmt%3D1-1-0%26rn%3D0%26zc%3D98466%26rd%3D100000%26crSrtFlds%3DstkTypId-feedSegId-mkId-mdId-kw%26kwm%3DANY%26mdId%3D20567%26stkTyp%3DU%26mkId%3D20081%26sf1Dir%3DDESC&aff=national&listType=3 By all accounts a nice car. I don't have any spare time from work right now and refuse to buy a car without seeing it in person work and I couldn't make the logistics happen so I quit pursuing it. High miles for a GT2 which will hurt it's collectability value a little...which I feel is already reflected in the price most are around 75k. Pro's of GT2 - Collectability and bottom of the market. Good chance 3-5 years from now it's worth exactly what you pay for it today or maybe even more as long as mileage doesn't change drastically. Cons - Well everything that makes it a special edition car makes it a bad street vehicle. No sunroof, not AWD, light weight by means of lack of sound insulation and lack of undercoating. Full coilover suspension from the factory, monoball mounts for the suspension, fully adjustable sway bars, lack of door speakers for the stereo to save weight and probably the worst factory radio you've ever heard. I put the factory radio delete in my car the radio was soo useless. Not why I bought it though.

Not mine...was there for a 2 day detail. It's Matt's with 3.8L and twin GT35's. Tried to buy a red one last week out west and couldn't make the deal happen

This thread brings back good memories. My garage went from this: http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q192/ZainoDetail/GT2.jpg to this in a matter of days: http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q192/ZainoDetail/GT3.jpg

Ha...Chris is a good dude, and dare I say the type that will engineer something to work better than any factory because he likes to do things the right way. He is, after all, the one who designed and pioneered the first LS swap into an FD and later sold his kit to one of the companies who now sells it as their own. Like I said...the Press fit / epoxy coolant fittings are a major burn. I was livid when I was fixing mine. More outrageous is that with even more and more reported failures Porsche will not do anything about it even after a TSA investigation. Basically the cars are old enough they aren't going to address it at this point. They claim they changed the design in 2010...most believe it's just that the 2010's aren't old enough to have the epoxy failure yet. More obvious was the plastic coolant tubes used on the Cayenne. That was simply put a means to trying to lower production costs that came back to bite them in the end but only in reputation because they rarely ever fail under warranty when Porsche would have to fix them on their dime. IMS is a tough one. on the M96 cars the shaft itself doesn't fail it's the bearing that holds it in place. I don't know how you control bearing failure. Most M96 owners know it's preventative maintenance at this point to upgrade that bearing for peace of mind at around 50-60k miles. The guy who bought my old red car did it right after he purchased it and said the factory bearing showed little to no signs of wear. IMS on the Turbo is because the timing gear isn't fused to the shaft. It's held in place with a key. I don't have enough background to say that's a poor design or not. The IMS in the standard 996 /997 cars is the same way. The GT3 has the same IMS as the cup car, which is a fused, true single piece shaft because the cup car is designed to turn 8800rpm, dare I say that part is over-engineered for the street GT3 that only turns 8200rpm. For the turbo only turning 6500 rpm maybe the 2 piece shaft wasn't thought to be an issue though in some cases it has shown to be an issue. Breaking timing chains you can't control....too many variables and not enough proven failures reported, lifter failures one could question oil change frequency, driving behavior at less or more than optimal oil temps, etc. The Blessing and curse of the Porsche community is that via the PCA drivers education program ALOT of these cars actually get driven hard on a regular basis on the track. It sorts out anything and everything that will fail over time.

The plastic coolant pipes on the 04-06 cayenne was shit design too. Idk what they were thinking. Thankfully they fixed that in '08. Again the plastic pipes were a known issue early on and cheap to fix as preventative measure. If you wait for them to fail they will ruin the starter when they leak on them 2 piece cardan (drive) shaft was in every cayenne. Those bearings just wear out as early as 60k miles. You can now buy the bearing itself cheap to fix vs early on you had to buy the whole new shaft to resolve.

Turbo has a 2 piece IMS. The key on the shaft has seen more and more failures as the cars age. Design was changed in '04 but key remains and is still the weak point. It will get noisy before it completely fails. There are good ways to test while it's noisy and before it fails if you suspect it's an issue. M96 cars the bearing on the shaft fails and shit hits the fan immediately.

Chris, don't forget variocam tappet failures, variocam sealing rings, the stupid rubber hose that splits on the fuel pump and the fact that the main coolant hoses on either side of the engine bay are likely to split right down the middle if they are more than 5 years old. Let's put this in perspective though. We are talking about a series of cars that are 9-13 years old now. Not only that but high performance cars with every day practicality leading to them being driven much more than competitors in this same segment. As you stated these were expensive cars new and as such can be expensive to fix for someone who can't perform the work themselves. I think the most important thing to point out is that while these cars are a "relative bargain" today that comes with a certain risk. You could pick up a 50k mile TT and put 3-5k miles a year on it and never have issues BUT you need to be able and prepared to stroke a check if the thing breaks. Now the coolant pipe failures are absolutely a shitty deal, one which Porsche refuses to recognize as an issue. There are options to minimize these failures. You can pin 6 of the 8 fittings with the motor in the car to minimize risk. Nothing you can do about the two under the oil cooler with the motor still in the car. Shop rate to pull motor, weld the fittings and put everything back is closer to $2-2.5k. It's all labor though. I did the whole job in my garage, without a lift for < $500. It sucked but needed to be done because I didn't want it failing on the track. Tinman here on the board has welded 3-4 sets now for myself and my track friends. Find me a 10+ year old car that doesn't possibly need oil seals, coil packs, plugs or an alternator here and there no matter what it is. Small note on the alternator you can rebuild yourself for like $75 if you are savy and do the work yourself. IMS - shitty deal I don't have to worry about with my GT3. At least on the turbo they will will make noise before it becomes deadly to the motor. You loose one in an M96 engine car and it's immediately catastrophic. Seems most cases reported have been on high mileage cars or cars with light flywheel. I too have seen the few chain failures recently. Still think these are pretty rare. Crappy deal is if you don't catch it quickly enough it will wrap around the IMS and ruin the block.

+ automatic is no go.

ha...that's about the truth. the fast picture was last thursday...70 was last night. Oddly almost the same time and same temperature though

just over 2k at 70 http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q192/ZainoDetail/D55684E8-351F-42A2-BAA9-E10375890B9A_zpsfnqgnc0s.jpg Slightly faster last week....rushing to gas station http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q192/ZainoDetail/7B0A6E60-72AE-41C0-8D85-D8F9F79E9BD6_zpspdv6tpco.jpg

Mileage...I'd try to stick to one with around 50k miles or less. Cars that aren't driven enough tend to leak from the front and rear main seals. PPI is your friend no matter what when buying. Front main seal is easy to do...did mine last year. Rear main sucks. I don't personally like drop top's....but it's white and with those K24 / 18G turbo's and supporting mods it already makes the power you are after and maybe more. http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/automobiles-sale/330069-porsche-996-turbo-cabriolet-white-28k-mls-few-upgrades.html