Quote:
|
Originally Posted by insite
ah; i hear what you're saying now. the revs do drop very fast. in the older cars, if the idle valve is the least bit sticky, it won't always react in time to keep the engine from stalling. i think the e-gas cars don't have this problem so much as the early ones. byron's was e-gas.
i was working under the assumption that the engine died after the downshift was completed. byron?
|
No, it died while the clutch was depressed. I actually coasted the car for a second. Considered pulling to the side, but I didn't want to stop the whole event just cause the car died. So I popped the clutch and engine picked right up. I suspect that the engine died because what was happening had already happened. I never ran a full lap under speed, so I really doubt it was an oiling problem and I didn't over rev. As I said, I was trying to take it easy and bring it up slowly. I had already had it up to speed on the interstate, so I suspect it was a pre-existing issue with the used engine? Obviously, there is no way of knowing if there are internal issues in a used engine without a complete rebuild and Porsche has done a great job of limiting the availability of those.