Yep Marty and Chris. Black is great. Most cars look their best in black. It's just a ***** to keep clean and swirl free, although it's less of an issue when it's just a weekend car. I'm looking forward to seeing it.
Hi Roro, I've seen your car on here. Very nice. 8)
Yes you summed it up at the end. It's not so much the colour, lovely though it is, it's the fact it's that colour on only one car.
Am I disappointed? Yes. Will I get over it? Of course.
Cheers. :thumb:
Right so we'll forget that that blue car exists and I'll concentrate on mine again.
As I mentioned earlier when I was discussing the car with Jonathan after I viewed it, although I was happy with the actual car, I still hadn't seen the rev range report or the history file. Both of which are pretty important.
Jonathan sent me a pic through -
That's not bad for any 996, let alone a GT3.
My Mk1 was shocking by comparison.
I'll take it we all understand the Rev range thing. Basically the early cars only have two ranges. The later cars (997 onwards) have 6.
In 996s then, range 1 is hitting the Rev limiter when accelerating up through a gear.
Most cars, or certainly a lot of cars will have tens of thousands of range 1's.
These are no problem at all, although seeing zero would be great. :wink:
It's the range 2's that cause the damage. This is when a driver ***** up a downshift and for example, tries to go from 5th to 4th but selects 2nd then dumps the clutch.
The revs rocket beyond the Rev limiter.
This can stretch timing chains or cause all sorts of other damage, some of which may not show itself immediately but many hours of running time later.
Range 2's aren't terrible if they are historic, so say if at least 100 hours of operating time or more has passed, you should have got away with it.
I was very happy to see zero on my car anyway.
The 9686 range 1 ignitions equate to around 24 seconds in total of my engine hitting the limiter over the course of its life. Not perfect but not a deal breaker and that's why the limiter is there, to stop the revs reaching dangerous levels.
The last one occurred at 915 hours out of 925 total operating hours, so about 10 hours ago.
It's unimportant though, as like I say, they aren't the ones to worry about.
I rarely hit the limiter in cars as I'm fairly sympathetic with my stuff, so I do wonder how some people seem to add so many range 1's.
The last bit of info we can we work out from the data is the average speed of my car over its lifetime. It's the total mileage of 42,500 divided by the total operating hours of 925, which equals 46mph. Quite high I thought, so I checked my old Volvo daily banger today and over the last few thousand miles that has averaged 41mph and I drive like a vicar in that thing to be honest. I never get stuck in traffic though.
So like I say I'm pretty chuffed with that ECU data, for a GT3.
So collection day looms.
Me and Craig were going to get the train down but my wife decided last minute to go and spend the long weekend with her family in Colchester, so it's now my wife, Craig and I, plus dogs, travelling down in the old Volvo.
Me and Craig will get out at Cambridge and bring the GT3 back and my wife will continue another hour to Colchester. That way I've done most of the driving for her. She'll have the return leg to do on Tuesday though.
So that's it for now.
The Volvo is loaded and ready for a 6am start.
We'll get back tomorrow night about 6pm I think and we are planning a run out on Sunday up to the Scottish Borders, to see what the GT3 is made of.
My old C2 will be in attendance so that should make for a nice pic.
It's Moto GP this weekend too so a proper lads weekend in store.
As ever thanks for reading.
Off to bed now. I only hope I dream about the black one and not the blue one. :?: :grin: