That sounds like they pinned it incorrectly. There isn't a lot of pressure in the cooling system, surely not enough to blow out a pinned sleeve.


that's a bad run of luck there I had a lot of problems with mine when I first got it, but its all good now. terrified of the camshaft thing, now that the car is running perfectly lol

 

yeah I had the camshaft thing, spoiler thing, clutch slave thing, rattling window thing. Best move I made was buying the cpo warranty when I imported the car from US P dealer. Paid for itself many times over.

 

Ouch that's the full meal deal there. I may possibly be experiencing early slave issues. but the same as you I had most problems that are common to these cars aside from the camshaft thing. I unfortunately didn't have CPO or a warranty that was useful, so the cars cost me a ton in maintenance the first year I owned it.


Do you attend any of the rennlist meets on Saturdays ? im rarely home so its the only way I get to interact with other p car fellas.

 

I wasn't aware of the Rennlist Saturdays. I know a couple of guys off this forum locally. Last year did a whole house reno and this year redid the landscaping so didn't have time for meets. Next year should be different!

 

It would be helpful to know what year cars everyone is talking about when they relay their incident. I had a 08 Turbo cab I drove every day for 48K miles and had no problems. I now have a 2012 with 16K miles and no problems. Are we talking model year, mileage or what on the issue cars.

 

I have a 2008 with 118,000km (73k miles for our friends in the US) and had a hose burst around 20k km ago. I decided to pin the pipes while replacing the hose since they had to drop the engine anyway. There was no leak or indication that it was going to happen, it just did. I did a pull on the street going to my friends house and I saw white smoke temp started to rise and that was it. Drove the rest of the drive (5min) to his house and got it towed to my indy.
For those local people wondering, I took the car to Brent at Hunter Motorsports.

 

Hey Cubes, that's similar to my experience - I launched onto the highway and then the low coolant light came on etc...

2007 with 84000km (a little over 50k miles).

I tried to get some work done by Hunter a couple of years ago but we got off on the wrong foot so I went elsewhere. My recent repair was at MVS in Scarborough.

 

Curious if these are all .1s? Although this isn't internals, I thought the Metzger build was bulletproof and so much more reliable? The comment on the epoxy sent chills up my spine.

Did they change the coolant pipes with the .2 or do I get to look forward to the same in my "unreliable" DFI lol?

 

Good attention to detail

 

I like Mario and his son at MVS. I'm not sure how much experience they have with a 997 turbo but they believe they can handle it. He has backup from a Master Porsche tech. Coincidentally my other friend referred me to that same Master Porsche tech. Just in discussions now and will figure out if I'm going to get my cams pinned while the engine is down and car out of service for the winter.

 

why r u dropping the motor? To recheck all the work done by bt? hope not. If so u should tell z....that aint right

 

yes, that's why. The burst hose was the coolant return line from the turbo. I don't think MVS could replace the whole thing without dropping the engine. At least that's what I understood. There's a temporary part in there right now which is just a short piece with clamps on both sides. Mario said he can see some of the "wrong" jubilee clamps on some of the other water hoses. Now I don't know if and when it would cause a problem because of those clamps but I think I'd rather have everything checked out and get some other stuff done too. I think it will simplify the water pump change, plug change, maybe get camshafts pinned, and the list goes on, lol.

I haven't seen the coolant level drop at all in 5 days and couple hundred kms driving so I think that means there's no head gasket damage. I want that looked at too obviously but for now I remain optimistic.

I will be getting in touch with Z about this...

 

How could I forget, I also had the broken gearshift cable thing. Unfortunately after the warranty expired. It was the one time (and only time ) I let my bro drive the car alone. He had a great time and just about home when it happened. He felt bad but I told him it was a "known" thing. I put in the Numeric Racing cable which is really good and strong. It was MVS that did this for me and I was happy with my experience with them.

 

Couldn't agree more. CPO and then extended warranty paid for itself over many times. I've had the coolant pipe blowout, spoiler failure and tip transmission leak (replaced). I have till April till the warranty runs out. Just hoping the camshaft thing happens soon. So much for 997 turbo's being bulletproof Anyone know if there's anyway you can "tease" the camshaft issue out? Joking but kind of serious too...

 

I don't think there is any way to tease it out - it usually happened when I slowed down to a stop and then came the familiar "beep" and check engine light. Always left an unsettled feeling in my stomach when it happened, although a number of times the CEL was something else.