Mystery Porsche part of the day thread, new stuff 11/17

[Pip]

Damnit! I wanna play but work blocks pictures! 

[Popeye the Sailor]

Clearly it's the Connipoly pin. Probably sheared off when the Frambis seized up.

[mitt]

Regarding 70 year olds - I work with one, and he takes his M3's / M5's and 7 series past a ton more often than I do on the monster.  He also trades them in about every 6 months.

mitt

[acalles]

I think I have a pretty good idea of what it is....

I have one from a audi that looks like it

[Porsche Monkey]

You stay out of it. Your too good at this game. Yes your right as always. 

[ducpainter]

So...

Is that one o them muffler bearings?

[acalles]

I didn't say what it was. just showed another picture..

I'm actually surprised there was another failure like this... this one was the first I've ever seen. Its not common for these types of failures to go this far... but this one was pure abuse.

is this problem more common on porsche?

[Porsche Monkey]

Its out of a 911, the part you posted is from a boxster. Totally different um, part.  Never seen this before either. Pure abuse. Showed 1000 ignitions over 8 grand.  Car redlines at 7250.  Showed 27,000 past redline.  

[acalles]

Its out of a 911, the part you posted is from a boxster. Totally different um, part.  Never seen this before either. Pure abuse. Showed 1000 ignitions over 8 grand.  Car redlines at 7250.  Showed 27,000 past redline.  

part I posted is from a 03, 3.0 A4 Quattro...

no faults for engine speed max limit exceeded. lots of faults for misfires and engine load limit as well as ABS rough road faults (yes it drove in, but was running THAT BAD) .  after repairs (which amounted to a little more then $8K) ran like a top. those V6's are beasts.

how the hell did they rev it that high? 6th to 1st?.....things people do to cars..... remarkable.

[NAKID]

I'm going to assume it's something from the transmission....

[Oldfisti]

I thought maybe bellhousing fragments from exploding clutch but it looks a little small.

I'll think about it some more...

[Porsche Monkey]

Okay Ill give.  












This is out of a 2000 911 cabrio.  Car has 22,000 miles.  The ignitions I was mentioning earlier are how we tell if a car has been abused.  An ignition is each time a spark plug fires.  Usually we see 100 or so in range one which is redline to about 8,000 rpms.  We never see them in range 2.  This car shows 27,000 ignitions in range 1 and 1,000 in range 2.  Clearly this car has missed a downshift or something.  Funny thing is I put a new transmission in this same car two years ago because second gear quit second gearing.  Customer owns an auto body shop down on the Mexican border.  These guys are hacks at best as I've seen several of their butcher jobs come this way.  Since said customer owns shop, he thinks he knows everything about everything.  He assumes the transmission should be covered under warranty and throws a fit untill I explain to him I know what really happened.  Then he quiets up and listens.  He then asks how it can go over 8,000 rpm if it has a rev limiter.  He probably meant to stick it in 4th at 100mph but hit second instead.  There is no way I can send this transmission back to Porsche and they will cover it.  First thing they will ask for is the ignition ranges.  Not only did the transmission go boom, but he also took a good chunk out of the back of the engine.  This is a very key piece because it is also a mount.  So my estimate also included a new engine.  Oh yeah, He has to pay the core charges too.  




Chunk of the engine that stayed with the trans.  



Backside of the engine missing a mount.






All in all, the transmission is $10,000, the engine is $16,000 plus 25 hours labor and misc parts like a new flywheel and clutch puts the bill right at $30,500.    I am still waiting to see what the customer wants to do.  

[Slide Panda]

Bah, I got distracted and forgot to post that it was part of a transmission bell - crap!

And... um wow. That's a big piece of engine still on there... that's not gonna buff out

[acalles]

All in all, the transmission is $10,000, the engine is $16,000 plus 25 hours labor and misc parts like a new flywheel and clutch puts the bill right at $30,500.    I am still waiting to see what the customer wants to do.  

on this one


I honestly don't have a clue how they did it. The owner said his son was borrowing the car. I wish I knew exactly what they were doing. I've seen lots of beat up clutches but nothing like this.

duel mass flywheel came undone at the dampener and the friction plate was slinging around beating on the transmission case.. it was running so rough it caused misfire faults. This also took out the upper oil pan and the right front inner CV was about to blow up.

like I said, they drove it in, only complaint was runs rough and no reverse.

It took me about 2 months but I found a good used trans. I had to replace the upper oil pan as well... labor for both was a smooth 24 hours. took about 3 full days.

they told there insurance co they slid off the road and hit something. insurance co paid for it. I just kept my mouth shut and let the adjuster figure it out.

[Porsche Monkey]

Dayum. Looks very similar to an early boxter transmission. I still want to hear the customers story. Can't wait.