Gents,

I am very fortunate to own probably the closest thing to sex on wheels. Also, with the 991 GT3 being a PDK and e-steering, I have decided to keep my .2 RS for life and hand it down to my son eventually.

Question:
I want to keep this car forever but also drive the hell out of it. It will be 95% street with the occasional track day. When I say long term reliability, I'm talking hundreds of thousands of miles, spanning 15-20 years. There are older 911s still around and Porsche's reputation for reliability gives me hope that this might be possible. I'm thinking of an engine refresh every 150k, trans refresh if needed, car will go no where near salt...what else?

Thoughts?

 

At some point you will have to replace/upgrade the coolant pipes that are known to come apart at the fittings. That engine should be solid for 300k+ miles. There are no real weak points mechanically that I know of.

 

As the owner of multiple Porsches for both street and track, I can tell you that the reliability is absolutely bulletproof. The key is obviously maintenance and to understand the peripherals i.e pumps, hoses, struts, etc will need replacing around the 10 year mark.

If it is a garage queen then all bets are off. If it is driven regularly then 20 years with these cars, relatively trouble free, is almost a sure thing. Also, stay away from non-oem mods. Please do not think that the tuners are smarter than Porsche engineers. The best engineers in the world are German(if you don't believe me just ask them, lol), and the best engineers in Germany aspire to work at Porsche. Tuners can build a faster car but reliability will be traded for it.

One of my cars is a 2001 996 tt that has been modded(hey, do as I say, not as I do). It has 75,000 miles with about 40k at the track. I was told that every track mile equals 10 street miles. It has done 1000 laps at Road Atlanta. Amazing. It has had new water, fuel pumps, struts, hoses replaced. The pumps had not failed, I just didn't want a failure and be stuck. The street miles were pretty stressful as well.

I have had several GT3s and all of them have endured a hard life on the track and never failed. Most had 40-50 k on them when I traded on a new one. My Cup cars usually go for 100 race hours before refreshing or rebuild. The average race car has to do that at 25-30 hours. The only time I missed track time was something stupid I did, never the car.

So basically, don't worry and don't drive it like p***y.

 

Thanks! That is great to hear. I most definitely plan on keeping up with the maintenance. I'm usually getting it performed much earlier than the suggested intervals, just to be safe :0

Appreciate the insights!