ECU rpm data storage deletion?
 

There have been a few threads on other boards concerning Porsche NA taking a position of engine abuse and denying warrranty work when people have engine issues e.g smoking seems relatively common for 996's. The data used to profer the engine abuse position, has come from the ECU, which apparantly tracks excursions toward the red line (above 6000 rpm) and when this last happened (engine hours).

As I autocross and generally drive my Boxster like a Porsche and not a Buick, there are times when I push past 6000 rpm. Given that there is a red line and engine cut off as delivered by Porsche, it seems unrealistic for them to take exception if you use the engine as they have provided i.e. high revs but below the red line. I am unhappy with the idea that Porsche may try this should I have engine problems.

Anyone have any experience of how to clear this code logging?

Nope. And it has been asked many times before.

LOL,Hey TP, is that driver still on the original engine? And if not, was he covered? :) And I thought I was hard on engines. How does someone get over 1,000 range two's? He must miss shifts like crazy.

Um, I think that range two count is 14, not 1100. Look again.

Oops. Yeah you are right. I misread. Banging the rev limiter 34,000 times is pretty excessive though :)

I took that picture of the PST2 about 2 years ago at a tech session. The Boxster S is a 2000 owned by Andrew. He does not have the original engine.

I had the revs on my 1997 read today. When it took that picture at the tech session my car was 7,160 in range 1. Today it was 13,027. Still nothing in range 2.

The counter is not the number of times you have been into the rev limiter limit. It represents something else, but I forget the exact details.

Could Porsche refuse to honer an engine warranty by looking at PST2? What happened to Andrew's original engine? Did it fail?