georgie997

georgie: I'd check your electronic oil level gauge just before you next start it up. If all the spaces are filled, including the very top one (it's about 1/4 the size of the others below it), it may be overfilled--not a good thing. Just make sure the car sits an hour or two with the motor off to allow all the internal oil passages to drain into the sump before you check it. Thank you for that 355bhp, that was a good idea. I did check it and the oil level seems to be OK. I'll keep an eye on it for the next few days after some driving to see if everything is still alright. Had the same issue, noticed the oil leak under the motor and this went a while. It wasn't pouring out oil just small drops that took a while to show. I park my car for long periods of time in my garage (one month periods) and everytime I would pull it out of the garage i would notice a few drops. Sent the car directly to the dealer out of fear of RMS problems but it turned out to be a faulty hose. One day later with the hose replaced and no more leakage... Make sure your dealer checks all hoses in the engine to make sure everything is A OK. Best Of Luck Thank you Aliballan, I'll check things myself first and I'll see what happens. So far so good.

georgie: I'd check your electronic oil level gauge just before you next start it up. If all the spaces are filled, including the very top one (it's about 1/4 the size of the others below it), it may be overfilled--not a good thing. Just make sure the car sits an hour or two with the motor off to allow all the internal oil passages to drain into the sump before you check it. Thank you for that 355bhp, that was a good idea. I did check it and the oil level seems to be OK. I'll keep an eye on it for the next few days after some driving to see if everything is still alright.

Agree! Please spend a little bit of time looking into Europipe. I have had mine in my C2S and everything has turned out great. The hardware itself is of great quality. Fitment is perfect. Sound is great. At least EP is one capable option which should earn a place in your shopping list. Could you please tell more. I have also installed Europipe on my 997 S and I can tell you that this exhaust is a masterpiece in terms of quality and sound. There is absolutely no drone, no resonance and the sound is a mix of the old 993 carrera and 996 GT3. If you see the welds you will understand why everyone calls this exhaust "better quality than the factory one". The 100cpsi cats create no CEL's at all. Stef, the guy I was talking to who is the owner of the company explained to me technicaly why there will be no CEL's at all. I am really satisfied with this product and i strongly recomend it to everyone who is seeking for "quality+sound" exhaust. I intent to buy a 997 TT and I am certainly going to install Europipe without any second thought at all. Bellow I quote the e-mail that Europipe had sent me when I expressed my worries on CEL's. "Hello George , The 100 cell cats are not a problem , it is the total contact area / volume of the cat that is important. A stock 997S has two 400 cell cats on each side , a small one and a large one with the O2 sensor in between them. The small stock cat is size 98mm x 74.5mm long while our sport cat is size 130mm x 90mm long. So the volume of the small stock cat is 0.56 liter and the volume of our sport cat is 1.19 liter. Now 100 cell cats have only half the contact area of the stock 400 cell cats. On the other hand our sport cats are twice as big so the final contact area of the big 100 cell sport cats is the same as the small 400 cell stock cats. Therefore our big 100 cell cats do not cause a Check Engine Light problem. The 997S systems that we sold in 2004 are stil running fine. I have included the pictures from our website. Please take look and ask me other questions. Regards , Stef "

Thank you for you assistance Paul. I took the car to dealer and checked it. There is no problem with the car! The gentleman that checked it noticed that there was some oil under the engine, but the strange thing is that there was no leak! In my opinion someone spilled some amount of oil during the oil change out of the hose and he cleaned only the filterbox.... It can't be explained otherwise. Well, finding out that there was no leak at all was a relief really.

Thanks Maurice! I checked the car once again after I had wiped out previous oil drops and I saw nothing. 12 hours after my last check and nothing on the floor. If this was an RMS problem wouldn't it still be leaking?

Hello to you all, It's the first time I'm posting in this forum and I would really appreciate if I could have your precious opinion or/and your personal experiance to my problem. A few minutes ago I noticed some oil drops on my garage floor right at the back of my 997 S mk1 underneath the engine. I am aware of the regularity of the problem that occures unfortunately to many Porsche owners, so from time to time i was always checking for any oil marks on my garage floor. Tomorrow I intent to call my Porsche dealer and describe the situation. The most probable answer would be to pay a visit so that he checks the car. All Iwanted to know is how serious could this be? If it's an RMS leak what is the procedure to fix it? I have read some articles on the web that describe a very easy and straight forward procedure, but on the other hand I have read some really disapointing scenarios like the one that includes the opening of the engine (????????). I would really appreciate your opinion and I am terribly sorry if this subject was discussed before at some extend without me having read about it. I'll be waiting for your replies. P.S. My car is an X51 with the powerkit installed. George