Is that GT on the lot at Newport Auto Center? I'm gonna be there tomorrow and would love to have a look.

T

 

That's what I was told today, Go check it out and see if it's true. My source seemed reliable.

 

"GT with blown motor"

Lol, I was excited when I saw the title thinking someone had added a superchrarger to a GT.

 

Same here! I had dreams of a 1300bhp monster.

 

The 996TT has two rev limiters (or perhaps more accurately settings) one for first gear and the second for the other gears. First is short enough that the rev limiter is actually set lower in that gear than on the rest.

It is possible to over rev the motor as has been stated earlier by putting the car into a lower gear at high wheel revs. This is indeed what the car mags reported at the Carerra GT introduction, a journalist dropped the car into a low gear at high speed and damaged the engine.

The damage that can result goes all the way from tangled valves and pistons to busted crankshafts and broken rods. Always fun to look at the internals of a motor that has let go to see just what metal at high speed is capable of doing!

As far as the repair is concerned I think that the computer will tell the tale. And if the hand grenade pin was pulled by the owner why shouldn't he have to put up with putting the shrapnel back together?

 

Hi Everyone:

Oweyea and I saw the CGT at Newport the other day. Beautiful black beast!

Don't know what is wrong with it mechanically...

Looks great...but so sad to see it on a rack.

T

 

Hi Garey. You are right on with your information.

 

That is a good thought. Rev limiters work for accelerating RPM (when you floor it in any one gear.) When they don't work and when the computer records an over rev is when you are down shifting. In this capacity, the rev limiter cannot work. You can try this in the non damaging way in your own car by simply red lining in ONE gear and the limiter does it's job and no "over rev's" are recorded. Essentially the throttle just cuts out, that is what the limiter feels like. But accidentally shift down to first instead of up to third and it is trouble--over rev recorded. When it can happen to good drivers is the heel toe down shift say from third to second and the car is still moving too fast for the clutch to take 2nd and the rev is above the limit. That's when the valve stems can bend and "blow the engine". (This is basically what Gary said but I hadn't read into the thread far enough to read his comments.)