Track day ended before it began
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12-10-2012 | 01:07 PM
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I just wanted to give you all a quick update, although it's not much I got right now. Apparently there is a problem with the vacuum in cylinder #5 and both PNA and Germany is now involved.
Porsche encourage you to track your car at HPDE events, the cars are build for this and that is also why the warranty is covering everything. I'm pretty sure that my downshift didn't cause the revs to go above 8000 rpm and therefore PDK allowed me to do the shift and overrev never kicked in.
I'll keep you all posted as soon as I receive news from the dealer.
Porsche encourage you to track your car at HPDE events, the cars are build for this and that is also why the warranty is covering everything. I'm pretty sure that my downshift didn't cause the revs to go above 8000 rpm and therefore PDK allowed me to do the shift and overrev never kicked in.
I'll keep you all posted as soon as I receive news from the dealer.
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12-10-2012 | 03:51 PM
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Porka, as lawdawg97 writes in an earlier post it all depends on the situation.
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12-10-2012 | 04:09 PM
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I got my car back Wednesday last week (Wooohooo!!)
, problem was upper lifter in cylinder #5, once that was replaced the car ran like it should.
I took it to Atlanta Motorsports Park on Friday to test it out, and boy this car is amazing!! Under video thread I posted link to in car video from a couple of laps, sound from PSE is soooo addictive, I love this car!!
, problem was upper lifter in cylinder #5, once that was replaced the car ran like it should. I took it to Atlanta Motorsports Park on Friday to test it out, and boy this car is amazing!! Under video thread I posted link to in car video from a couple of laps, sound from PSE is soooo addictive, I love this car!!
Enjoy!
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12-10-2012 | 04:58 PM
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In this case, I don't think the track caused the failure, just that it caused an existing problem to be surfaced.
Like was stated - depends.
OP - awesome! Glad to hear things turned out okay (except for the lost track time).
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12-15-2012 | 07:41 AM
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After looking at the data from the car it was clear that over revving never caused the problem.
Anyway car runs great again and since it's saturday and the no rain in the forecast it's time to a bath
Anyway car runs great again and since it's saturday and the no rain in the forecast it's time to a bath
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12-15-2012 | 09:45 AM
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12-15-2012 | 09:51 AM
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Chuck as I wrote above the car didn't overrev and I was never in redline. PDK did it's job and allowed to downshift since I was not in redline.
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12-15-2012 | 09:56 AM
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12-15-2012 | 10:00 AM
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