Porsche GT3 engine

Remember this past year when Porsche had to remember every brand-new 911 GT3 to restore the motors? Really, it is happening to 911 GT3 owners again. Porsche has written to proprietors urging all of them to carry their particular 911 GT3s in to their particular neighborhood dealership to truly have the motor replaced—for the second time.

But whereas the original engine-replacement system affected each of the 3.8-liter GT3 machines, modern problem requires just about several automobiles, according to Porsche. We realize of five associated with affected 911s, four that are in use as ’Ring taxis regarding the Nürburgring Nordschleife.

The March 2014 recall encompassed 785 911 GT3s and had been spurred after two automobiles experienced motor fires. The original machines were discovered to have a concern with a loosened screw joint in the piston connecting pole. Modern issue is in the valvetrain associated with flat-six motor, and Porsche says that rather than fix them, it absolutely was more straightforward to merely take away the entire engine and change it with a new one.

“It does work that in some extremely infrequent cases we had small problems with the valvetrain, ” Porsche spokesman Thomas Becki said. “To fix these machines could have taken longer than we found appropriate for our GT3 clients, so we replaced the machines and repaired them afterwards.” The repaired machines is going to be used by Porsche in development testing.