Damn good story and it is always special when it comes down to that dream car. I know the feeling!

Funny, I have a Lamborghini Countach (Alpine stereo ad) mounted poster on my wall from the early 80s that the wife (who worked in an art shop) of one of my flying students gave me.

Nice to look at and so was that mint low mileage F550 Maranello I was looking at prior to adding the GTS. Glad I didn't go for it, plus I always remember my Italian friend who told me "Ferraris are beautiful to look at, but if you want a quality sports car, buy a Porsche". He is Italian, born and lives in Italy and owned a car parts business as most of the family works in the automotive business.

 

Same here as we are in the same age group. Probably got it from growing up with "real VW Beetles" and air-cooled engines. I did all the work on my mom's '67 Beetle.

At that time I always liked the '63 to '67 Vette Coupe for their styling. That and a Steve McQueen Mustang. But compared to a cheap VW, the quality of those cars was laughable.

I have a Turbo poster that I bought back then and mounted it. I found this rough one on the web.

 

Exactly why I often state, any clown can go fast in a straight line, all it takes is HP and traction.

But the C8 Z06 with its HUGE tires can easily pull over 1.5Gs (my guess).

As a novice pulling 1.25Gs on the track and as much as 1.34Gs in a 992S, I am sure the Vette can easily pull much more.

 

A friend of mine going all the way back to high school has this very nicely done 964 in Dolphin Grey (below). He also has a very nice custom 914 with an air cooled, bored out, 911 engine.

 

Dems fighting words! Hell if I stated that, the "clique" on this site would have me burning at the stake.

The last Vette I liked was the C6 with the smooth flowing lines. Its the inside I could not stand; too GM.

 

The last Vettel I liked was my Uncle Gordie's '63 Split Window. He went from that to a Jag XKE 'vert to the 911 to the Turbo 911. I skipped the "preliminaries" and went straight to the 911. Quoting @Tech "Funny, I have a Lamborghini Countach (Alpine stereo ad) mounted poster on my wall" I did too. That was every young man's dream car back in its heyday.

 

As a flight instructor aka low paid, any car was a dream. Back then, the American Made dvd was not available yet.

 

Agreed. A friend of mine worked at a dealership that got a C6 Grandsport and a Cayman S on trade. I asked if I could test drive them both. The C6 looked fantastic (still does), but the interior was a joke and the sport buckets sucked. I just did not feel at home driving it and didn't want to push it any harder than 6/10ths.. I hopped in the Cayman and was easily able to push 8 or 9/10ths, and it was way more fun. Yeah, different engine layouts but the Vette had 33% more power, but I just felt like the rest of it wasn't enough to make me comfortable with accessing it.

 

That's a fine 964

 

Such a pain in the ass, totally self-inflicted but why oh why Porsche do you have to make it so god damn hard to get going again?

Wanted to Take the T for a Cruise but . . . .

 

Having a battery tender is absolutely key to success. Gotta get power out there ASAP!

 

Scott, instead of going through 60 posts on that thread, give me a quick point by point rundown of what happened.

 

yea ive read about how that emergency thingy to open the Frunk typically doesnt work or is difficult to use.

I've seen some people that bought Porsches for cheap because the owner couldnt figure that out or something.

 

Battery dead, use e key to get in car, try and use battery pack to power frunk opening, fail, try again, fail, call Roadside, Roadside guy dares me that he can get my frunk open using a curved bar with a handle on it saying "Wanna bet?," success-frunk is open, jumped Carrera with another car, drove it ~100 miles, door wouldn't open from inside, roll down window/open frunk with car still running, get out, hook up CTEK, success.

 

I'm assuming you didn't have a battery charger/maintainer connected to the battery when you parked it for the winter.

 

troubles were all self-inflicted. We had a super mild winter and I got a chance to take it out for a good ride in January then figured I'd start it back up and go for a ride two weeks later-nope.

 

I am assuming your T came with the same factory battery that mine came with; an AGM battery made by Banner in Austria. Mine will be going into its 10th year this May and I've never had a starting issue with it. It only gets put on a charger/maintainer during winter storage. During the summer, sometimes it sits for three weeks at a time.

Do you have any aftermarket accessories drawing current? And with the CANBUS system, many things are shut down like my cigarette lighter than shuts down 6 minutes after I shut the car down (timed it).

By the way, I tested my original battery prior to winter storage and it still tested OK, but at that age, you never know. When it goes, I'll replace it with another quality AGM battery. I just can't see myself spending $1300 for one of those high-tech lithium batteries when a $250 AGM will get me 10 or more years. Hell, our factory installed Flooded Lead Acid aka Conventional batteries got us 16 and 14 years in our last two cars.

Also, last winter I stored my Acura RDX for exactly 3 months. That battery was 6 years old and plug-ins were not available. I also left the battery connected. I was sure I'd need a boost. I was amazed in that it started as if it had run the day before. You cannot beat a plain old Asian car as a daily driver.

 

Another thing Scott, when heading out for a drive, especially shorter ones, set your Mode switch to Sport Plus. The charging system on these newer cars are controlled by the ECU. Next time you are out, look at the battery voltage in your MFD if you have it set up and note the voltages in Normal, Sport and Sport Plus. They take a few minutes to react and stabilize.

In Sport Plus on a cooler morning (44 F), my battery will be sitting at 14.8 to as high as 15.0V. Perfectly normal if it is an AGM battery.


Source: East Penn battery.

 

I might be wrong but doesn’t the 992 have more stuff running when powered off than the 991 gen? My dad also has a 2012 991.1 and his battery lasted 8 years or more, I don’t know exactly, but it was pretty impressive.

 

Could be. Easy enough to measure it.

I tried Googling "Porsche 992 Service Information - Technik Introduction" or "992 SIT" PDF just as I have them for the 991.1 and 991.2 series. Nothing came up. They are really good documents (266 and 206 pages respectively) explaining the systems in our cars.

 

My first thought re: the battery was modern car + modern systems = way more "sleep" drain.

Lithium is great for a track car or motorcycle where every ounce & packaging matters. But yeah I agree, an AGM is perfectly good for a street car.

 

It's not only the duration of time but also if it's cold outside, batteries don't like that. I've let my Mustang sit for 3 weeks without being hooked up to the wall over the summer without any issues but definitely wouldn't try that in the winter time.

That reminds me, I need to go plug it back in. Had a great outing with it over the weekend when it was in the 60s!

 

80s here, so the hot-tempered Midget stayed covered & sleeping.

 

Fair point on temperatures, my personal experience has been in warmer climates. My dads 2012 Carrera was always garage kept (attached garage with climate controlled rooms above and around it) in Atlanta, or Florida. So. I would guess mid 50s is as low as it got, and that was a fairly rare instance.

 

Cold temperatures cause a battery to have a slower self-discharge (when disconnented) except there is more of a load put on it when starting.

General rule in the battery industry, every 8C above the standard of 25C (or 27C ?) cuts battery life in half.

 

@Tech , I have a LiOS battery, comes standard in the T but thanks for the insights provided.

 

I take it that is another type of Lithium battery that I am unfamiliar with. Most of them are the LiFePO4 type.

In any case, manufacturers of Lithium batteries claim they are superior to anything else, so I am surprised your battery went flat over the 2 to 3 months in storage. Considering my 2017 Acura with the factory "conventional battery" was stored for exactly 3 months last year without being plugged in (no outlets) and it started to my surprise as if it had run the day before. And that battery was 2 months shy of 6 years old. Go figure!

 

I stand corrected, it is LiFePO4 battery, I miswrote that.

 

Were you able to recover your battery? In my old 911 I didn't drive the car for a few weeks, and the Lithium ion battery fully drained. There was no way to recover it -- I needed to get it replaced (luckily under warranty).

 

^^^ Yes, it works perfectly fine now and indicates a full charge on CTEK device.

 

Tons of cars, unbelievable. Not very good pics which is why I won't be purchasing without watermark. Got some high speed work in on different parts of the track.

 

@ the Tundra behind you
Definitely not the photo quality I'd expect, but

 

Geez definitely wouldn’t pay for those photos as well.

the cars look like they’re parked on the track.
photographer needs to slow his shutter speed so you get some blurred motion particularly in the wheels.
A panning shot would’ve been nice too.

 

^ Took me a while at F1 to get that look down with my dinosaur Nikon. Was pretty happy when I got some good motion shots.
Panning to keep the car stationary while getting a good background blur took some practice. Especially at F1 speeds.

 

Tundras, minivans, Subaru Crosstreks, Forresters, Impalas, some old Tauruses, a shit ton of Minis (some really cool ones at that), X5's, a Hummer festooned with Trump BS on every square inch of the body, Vettes, some hot Porsches-GT3RS, GT4RS, etc. I never saw so many cars there for opening weekend.

 

Geez, that looks more like a parade lap with the endless sausage link of cars.

I would want to see the track inspection paperwork for the tundra lol, thats pretty funny!

Im going to sebring this weekend, it looks like it’ll be pretty crowded too, weather has been great, everyone wants to go out and have fun!

 

Cleaned one up for you. Might be a little better.

 

@Chief F1 Fan Out of curiosity what do you do for track insurance? Planning to take my car out this summer and have been looking into that.

 

I have used OnTrackInsurance.com 2x now, for a policy to cover a $137K car minus 10% deductible I paid $971 for two days' coverage. Super easy to deal with and what most if not all of the guys running at the Glen use with the Niagara PCA.

 

That's something I never really considered. Guess your normal auto policy has no/less effect on a track.