eBay 996 build thread
- Orange Cola
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Well that’s less than ideal. Any local 911 specialists around who could help?
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- NotoriousREV
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Yeah, just waiting for a date to get it into them. They’re a bit busy but relatively cheap and do a great job.Orange Cola wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2019 9:47 pm Well that’s less than ideal. Any local 911 specialists around who could help?
Middle-aged Dirtbag
Re: eBay 996 build thread
How many miles in total have you done since owning?NotoriousREV wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2019 4:24 pm It’s used a litre of oil in 50 miles. I’m guessing it’s all in the cooling system.
The Evo forum really is a shadow of its former self. I remember when the internet was for the elite and now they seem to let any spastic on
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50.1 then ran out of oil to fill it up with.
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Less than 500.unzippy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2019 4:59 amHow many miles in total have you done since owning?NotoriousREV wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2019 4:24 pm It’s used a litre of oil in 50 miles. I’m guessing it’s all in the cooling system.
Middle-aged Dirtbag
Re: eBay 996 build thread
Can there be any oil left in the sump? Using maths it would have gone through 10 litres in that time.
Re: eBay 996 build thread
If the issue was there when Dave collected - which was what I was leading up to.
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It all becomes clear now
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Honestly, there were no signs of it happening earlier. I'm certain something "blew" when I used it on Sunday. I topped it up with oil last week, and it was fine for a couple of days after (I was checking the oil levels) and then suddenly this and hardly any oil in the sump. I didn't even drive it hard but it was the first time I'd used the heater since getting it, so I don't know if that's significant.
Middle-aged Dirtbag
Re: eBay 996 build thread
Mainly through a lack of much else to do, this one has really got into my head! So say 10 litres of oil has gone missing - even if it's going into the coolant, it has to go somewhere, doesn't it - the expansion tank area would look an Iraqi oilfield if it was blowing out of there. If it was burning off, it'd be a mushroom cloud.
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Fingers crossed on the oil cooler but even a cracked doesn't appear to be catastrophic
Re: eBay 996 build thread
An unfortunate source of stress right there Dave I'm sure. I hope it sorts quickly and without great expense.
On the upside, this is a really interesting thread so keep up the good work by all means.
On the upside, this is a really interesting thread so keep up the good work by all means.
Re: eBay 996 build thread
Did it have any warranty out of interest?
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Re: eBay 996 build thread
Watching FnL last night reminded me of their 996 with an LS. It had exactly the same issue.
Is there any chance the previous owner did a temp bodge and cleaned it up to punt it on?
Is there any chance the previous owner did a temp bodge and cleaned it up to punt it on?
Re: eBay 996 build thread
I'd always be suspicious of that when something goes so soon after buying it...
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Given the work Dave has put into it, making it look really quite decent, I'm not sure now if he wants to swap the engine for something else now, if that makes sense? It is, after all, a 'proper' 911 and looks the part. Which makes the failure all the more maddening.
Re: eBay 996 build thread
Might be the previous owner had the expensive Hartech rebuild, then babied it around paranoid it'd break. Dave comes along, gives it fucking beans, and pops a previously weak, but not overly stressed, oil cooler.
It's not always suspicious. Sometimes it's just shitty luck.
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Normally shitty luck really. How would you even go about bodging a litre-of-oil-per-50-miles type issue temporarily anyway?
Btw - the thought of an LS in a 911 gives me cancer.
Btw - the thought of an LS in a 911 gives me cancer.