Porsche Carrera GT teaching tool at the Porsche Academy

[Luccia at Pelican Parts]

And it has been disassembled and rebuilt 78 times. The Porsche Academy in Georgia has a beautiful, near-million-dollar hypercar, that Porsche offers a course to select dealer technicians on how to service the model. Although, there were not many of them actually built, there are still enough out there where there is a need for dealer knowledge.

Instead of Porsche having to own a bunch of GT's for this class to train on, why not just one that comes apart and back together over and over again. Get this, it only has 1,445 miles on the engine and chassis. All of which are from it being taken to customer events or from numerous shakedown drives after it's been reassembled.

Bob Hamilton, Porsche technician in charge of the Carrera GT class said:

I was there when it came off the Lufthansa 747 cargo plane here in Atlanta in 2004. We put it on a flatbed and drove it to Phoenix Parkway, where our old training facility was located.

Source here

[Major Dad]

In the UK, the only Porsche Dealer allowed service the GT is Porsche Cars GB at Reading.

Porsche didn’t offer an at your own expense Extended Warranty on it when the factory warranty expired.

I’d still love one, I still hear the V10 howl of the one being demonstrated at Brands Hatch in 2005.

[look 171]

A family friend is the head wrench at Downtown Porsche. He told me stories how they sent him back East for this very class. He even got to drive it a bit. I haven't talk to him for more then 5 years. I am sure he was sent there for the latest and the greatest by now. I am thinking Taycan?

[onewhippedpuppy]

Definitely a poster car for me, the V10 wail on Top Gear when Clarkson reviewed it is still one of my all time favorites.

[GH85Carrera]

The local OKC dealer sold one new, and that required that the dealership buy some of the special tools required to service a C-GT. One thing was super long ramps just to get it on a lift. The owner tried to drive it like it had a normal clutch and of course burned up the little ceramic clutch. Porsche went ahead and warrantied the clutch job. The dealership had their shop foreman, and 30+ year factory trained mechanic pull the body panels off that are needed to remove the engine and transmission. He did the full clutch job and fixed it right.

That mechanic is a long time friend of mine and he just retired after 35 years of working for Porsche. I have used his knowledge and experience to answer questions for me.

[Noah930]

Ah, must be nice to work on a car with no seized bolts and fasteners. Everything torqued to factory fresh specs...

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

.............the V10 wail on Top Gear when Clarkson reviewed it is still one of my all time favorites.

Silicon carbide clutch. Lol

He couldn't say it without getting a sexual twinge.

[David]

Jay Leno has done a couple videos on his. He mentions owners burning up the clutch and if I recall correctly, he says if you read the manual it tells you how to let out the clutch. You let it all the way out and then give it gas, no problem.

I tried this in my Cayman. Works really well. Don't know why I ever slipped it a little when taking off.

Of course I'm over simplifying it but if you time full clutch release and gas application correctly it works very well.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by David

He mentions owners burning up the clutch........

Ouch!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by David

Jay Leno has done a couple videos on his. He mentions owners burning up the clutch and if I recall correctly, he says if you read the manual it tells you how to let out the clutch. You let it all the way out and then give it gas, no problem.

I tried this in my Cayman. Works really well. Don't know why I ever slipped it a little when taking off.

Of course I'm over simplifying it but if you time full clutch release and gas application correctly it works very well.

That is what I do when I am on level ground. It sure does not work on a hill.

[2.7RS]

Million dollar car. 18k clutch
35k 911SC. 600ish clutch.

Sounds about right. No surprises

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That is what I do when I am on level ground. It sure does not work on a hill.

depends upon which way you're headed.

[svandamme]

I love the sound it makes, and the concept of it being a true drivers car manual shifter and all it's lack of behavior.

But I've seen it up close at the museum, static, The design just didn't age well.
I don't like the interior one bit. And exterior styling, like the 959, it's just not my cup of tea.

the 918 looks a lot better imho.. but even that one has things that just annoy me.
the purse storage location behind the instrument cluster, it's just fugly.
And why is the oil filler cap visible in the rear?? Who thought that was a nice thing to do instead of putting it behind some panel??

[porsche tech]

I was fortunate enough to be the guy from our dealership to go to Atlanta and was trained on that very car by Bob back in 2004 or 5. We sold 2 of them, a silver one and a yellow one. I retired in 2012.

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Ouch!

Oh, you want a new clutch? Add another $8K. Oh and let's talk about the core charge....

[porsche tech]

Couple of shots of a Carrera GT that Porsche had at their facility in Leipzig in 2008.