Porsche Fun Facts w/K-Roll

"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390) 10/29/2018 at 11:35 • Filed to: fun facts

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I shall be dispensing my unusual wealth of Porsche knowledge with everyone from time to time! Use it in social gatherings, dates, as an icebreaker! Today’s facts are about the 996.

Did you know the 996 Turbo was the first car in the world to be sold with Bi-Xenon headlamps as standard ?

Did you know that the 996's M96 Engine is the first 911 engine to not have dry-sump lubrication?

That’s all for today!

  > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 11:46

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thank you. another fact is that s peed yellow is the best 996 colour

Arrivederci > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 11:47

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Did you know the M96 was the first engine in a 911 to have a single catastrophic point of failure?

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 11:48

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did you know the 996 *date leaves*

well.... that was less than helpfull.......

Maxima Speed > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 11:51

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I actually knew all of that except the designation m96 for the engine. Yay me!

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Arrivederci 10/29/2018 at 11:55

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Did you know it actually has 2?

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 11:55

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I never realized all the old air cooled engines were dry sumped.

Arrivederci > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 11:57

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Dammit, what’s the second?

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 10/29/2018 at 11:58

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Wrong date, try again. Or you can use my useful Titanic fun facts!

Did you know Titanic had approximately 10,726 light bulbs? And that third class’s toilets featured automatic flushing?

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 10/29/2018 at 11:58

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BECAUSE RACECAR

wafflesnfalafel > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 12:00

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ha - I love fun Porsche facts! And no, I didn’t know either of those! Turbo is nice but I think I would rather have the 4s of that gen in silver...

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Arrivederci 10/29/2018 at 12:00

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Cylinder 6.

“There seems to be a design flaw that the coolant is not circulating well in the this part of the engine. 6th cylinder is on the right side bank, closest to the cabin. The high temperature issue is local and therefore you cannot see the problem on the temperature gauge. You are unaware of the overheating in 6th cylinder until you start to hear some rattling from the engine. This means the cylinder has lost its surface layer, the cylinder is scratched and the piston clucks in the cylinder. This also means this cylinder is now burning oil. As the exhaust pipes are in X-shape, the exhaust gases from right side of the engine exit through the left side exhaust pipe. Oil residue starts to build up on the rear bumper above the exhaust pipe end. You now need a new block, or the 6th cylinder machined and a sleeve inserted.”

To be fair, I don’t think this issue is nearly as serious or prevalent as the IMS bearing. And even that can be blown out of proportion.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 12:00

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eh im good mate... married... whenever i waffle on about stuff the missus dont care about she just nods along and gives me a thats nice dear :p

DipodomysDeserti > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 12:02

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Is it because thebthird class toikettes were port o potties?

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 10/29/2018 at 12:04

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That means it’s working!! Whenever I get married, I want to hear the same thing!

Arrivederci > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 12:04

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Well that’s a shame.  I’ve heard of scoring issues, but they don’t seem super prevalent either.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > DipodomysDeserti 10/29/2018 at 12:06

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Nope! Because it was worried that third class passengers wouldn’t know how to flush a toilet, or that they wouldn’t know they had to and that would’ve been nasty.

tl;dr: They believed third class to be uncultured philistines who couldn’t flush a toilet.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Arrivederci 10/29/2018 at 12:15

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I’ve actually not heard of scoring issues?

K-Roll-PorscheTamer >   10/29/2018 at 12:15

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This is factual.

Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 12:15

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I’m pretty sure this is how flynorcals block went; some sort of 6th cylinder issue. 

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 12:19

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Did you know that the 996 is boring?

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 12:58

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You don’t hear much about the scoring and sleeve frag issues because the IMS grenades the engine long before you hit those.

Vicente Esteve > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 13:01

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The 996 is awesome. 

Arrivederci > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks 10/29/2018 at 13:20

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LOL

Arrivederci > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 13:22

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It may be more prevalent in the M97.  I recall when I was investigating buying a Cayman, one of the areas all the Porschephiles said to make sure the PPI checked out was borescoping the cylinders.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks 10/29/2018 at 20:46

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Did you know you’re not entirely wrong?

superdave847 > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 22:57

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Damn that car is perfect.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 22:58

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Yeah, there’s also a dirty rumor going around that I’m starting to learn how to do truly horrific things to the 9A1 . Since literally nobody is doing anything meaningful with it. Possibly because they don’t know DI , more likely because it’s the fucking 9A1- 100- 90 1- 06 engine .

So, uh, yeah. Don’t damage the internals on a 997.2 GTS.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks 10/29/2018 at 23:21

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Is that right? What dirty things does this rumor say? Also no one calls it by the part number, 9A1 is fine?

Also, don’t damage the internals on any 997.2 and 991.1?

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 10/29/2018 at 23:41

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Oh, just that some guy named Woot Rim or something like that noticed that the 991.1 Turbo S increased the HP side to 2000PSI without changing the cam drive from the 997.2 9A1. Also that he noticed it’s gear-drive and not push-drive and mumbled something about large flow gains through de-restricting internal stuff.

But nobody would ever want more fuel to go with the 10mm larger diameter throttle body they bolted on, right?

Unfortunately, no. You can blow up all the 991.1's you want, because that engine is still available. But according to Porsche, also different enough to not fit the 997.2 because of course.