Porsche Flat 6 Teardown - Timelapse and Diagnosis 

Everyone excited for Freevalve Miata Pt. 2 next week?!

You're the kind of guy I aspire to be. Really interesting content, I for sure wouldn't mind more videos in this format! Now I need to get back to studying to become a mechanical engineer haha

I am extremely excited, watching you engineer parts and literally build an f1 car from the ground up has been a journey I hope to see continue, keep up the amazing work👍

Just a side note, these motors don't have cam cover gaskets. Typically when removing the Cam covers, a compound called Drei Bond (silicone 1209) is used.

Very interesting. I just tried to take mine apart and I didn't get anywhere near as far as you did. My head bolts were not budging for anyone ;)

Nice Job! Love seeing the parts laid out like that. Might have to do that when I rebuild my G16A.

You're getting way better in front of the camera. I get pumped to see your videos pop up. Keep it up man.

Really like the longer format, something relaxing about watching and engine teardown! Cant wait for the next free-valve video!

Really liked the disassembly. I love videos that show in depth how to work on an engine. So if you ever do an assembly video, please do it in the greatest details. I‘m also always interested in where people get the necessary torque specs for each part :)

How the heck do you find time for all these projects? I'm beyond impressed.

I came across your videos by accident but I am happy that I did. I like the way you do stuff. You explain but it's not overly complicated and you back it up with knowledge. I like the longer video format

Really interesting to see a Porsche engine teardown. I had no idea it was so different from the normal design. Thanks, Wes. Looking forward to the Freevalve progress next week.

Loved the longer format!! Can't wait for the free valve video! Just about ever car enthusiast on the planet would love to have free valves!

Fantastic job on the strip down of the M96 motor, I did one myself over Christmas. Love the free valve on the Miata too! I would really like to see a free valve on this motor, it could fit really well on the the head where the valve cage / matrix bolts on.

I absolutly love these videos!!! Let's get it put back together even better!!!

how does this guy not have all of the subs!!!!! Keep up the good work, I cant wait to see that v12 purr

New subscriber from mid-Canada. Good tear down video. Your thoughtful narration helps make it. I wish more engines had that stacked modular structure.

This guy deserves WAYYYY more views and recognition because he's absolutely hilarious and does give a single f***.... What a legend

we love your content man ! keep going :)

This is why I like your videos: 3:25 could've easily cut and edit the wrong quick answer, but you kept it. Says a lot about you and your approach to building, and I like and appreciate that. Keep it up, your project(s) is/are very interesting.

I wish I had the confidence to take things apart like this. Mostly always worried they won't go back together in working order.

I could watch you work, explore, build for hours!

This channel needs to blow up before you get the V12 swapped!

your content is truly fantastic. I'm very glad I found your channel a while ago

dude cannot put into words how much i love what you are doing, i was thinking of using r1 throttle bodies on my V12 C9/11 build just struggling to source my engine! love love love... Matt :) please if you need any 3d stuff hit me up :) a car model, motion graphics anything. keep up the cool stuff cannot wait until next episode

Wow, interesting way to implement vvt. (You can probably tell I'm a novice lol) but still, I've always seen animations with the cam pulley phasing using oil pressure.

The M96 motor, like many VAG motors, don't actually have a gasket for the valve cover/cam girdle. They use an anaerobic sealant instead. Dreibond 1209 is the product specified by Porsche

"This is not a guide to disassembling an M96 engine. This is a guy playing with a bunch of scrap metal in his garage that coincidentally looks much like an M96 engine."

keep up the hard work!! I am currently studying automotive (off-highway) engineering you are living my dream, I am trying to swap the miata engine into a triumph spitfire and really excited about your development retrofitting freevalve technology to a Maita.

It was interesting to see how this motor compares to the EG33 in my SVX. I think I will keep it handy the next time someone tries to tell me the EG33 is basically a Porsche motor.

Enjoy watching your journey. How is the V12 swap going?

Finally got around to binge watching your channel should've did it sooner some of my favorite TRvid content so far. I remember hearing rod knock in your first test drive video was gunna comment and say something glad to see your awair and on top of the issue before the crank got destroyed. Your v12 throttle body videos has inspired me to convert my 1980 Honda gl1100 goldwing to fuel injection I've been planning on supercharging it with a used or reman. Aisin Amr500 roots blower my only hang up was figuring out the right blow through carb after seeing your video I think the hayabusa modular throttle body is the perfect candidate for the conversion do you have any recommendations for a stand alone fuel management system preferably diy open source where I can use cheap off the shelf sensors and whatnot.

Excited about the free valve Miata!! Quick question, how did you design the suspension for the Porsche?

Watching this, it occurs to me that the space savings you get from a cam delete is especially important with horizontal engine layouts. I know Subaru is up against an engineering bottleneck, shoehorning steering and suspension around a H-layout motor. They ought to be looking real hard at this idea.

Wonderful content! I love how you don't put on a personality. You are just yourself.

I guess I still like the boxer engine on the F1 car better but that’s just if I were going to drive it. It’s amazing what you do!

The silicone gasket on the covers is what is used from factory. It's interesting that the big end failed. These commonly fail and 'knock' because the Nikasil on the piston walls break down. There are a few ways to fix it but the best is with an iron liner

keep the great content coming! I love your vids

Awesome video, my 981 Cayman has a similar engine and it’s amazing to see these motors pulled apart

Absolutely love your stuff!

Great video! I definitely enjoy this kind of longer videos

You're good on camera and knowledgeable, looking forward to seeing you really take off soon.

New here but totally binged through 4 vids tonight. I too learned about engines by taking them apart. Loved the format and will be a regular visitor.

would it be possible to see in the near future a M96 build and how to keep it running properly or fix all the issues highlighted?

Bless that brave little connecting rod for not fracturing.

Well done! Thanks @Wesley for a relaxing video! One thing I need to ask though is: What is the shape of crankshaft and cylinder walls? Usually "wobbly" connecting rods make a bit of destruction there :D

Would love to watch the whole process on twitch if possible. Is that the 2.5/2.7/3.2?

I like the long format videos! As far as I'm concerned more footage of work getting done is better. I think there are some people who want just the bullet points and a end-of-video "see it run money shot" but I'm more in the Tech Ingredients show everything camp

There isn't supposed to be a valve cover gasket between the valve cover and head on that engine because the Cam Caps are integrated into the valve cover. If you had a gasket between those surfaces it would cause clearance issues.

I'd be so afraid to move my foot and knock over all those meticulously organized parts on the floor

love the longer videos, keep it up

thats the first ive seen inside those engines. what strange construction. i have built many engines and that one looks really complicated. did you find a blocked oilway or any other reason for that bearing to fail ?. interesting video thanks

Nice work, who doesn't love taking apart big oily paperweights into smaller paperweights

Holy crap now that's what I call a proper timing chain, a thick double chain... today's Audi, BMW, etc. timing chains look like bicycle chains in comparison... no wonder they fail. I've never seen a flat 6 engine torn down, it was interesting!

I don't know if its the case for that engine, but I find myself using RTV more and more because gaskets, just regular paper ones, are $15-40 each for the OEM ones and I can't find aftermarket ones, or the aftermarkets were woefully off in their fitment. It's honestly ridiculous for any paper gasket, even if it is the OEM gasket, to cost $15 for a little 5 inch circle. And with RTV I thinly grease one side, RTV the other, and then let it cure for the full 24 hours hand tight so it always has its own built-in gasket if I have to take it apart in the future.

Yes! Longer videos! Excellent content

I'd love a comparison against a Subaru SVX - cheap to find, also boxer-6, VERY different block

I have never seen a rod bearing spin so much it wore the steel shell away. They normally sieze up and pull the cap off the rod. Then they fail spectacularly :)

I did that to my Kawaski Concours trying to chase down a knock... it was a rod bearing... I had ever intention of reassembling the motor... found a used one for like $400 and that seemed way more likely to succeed. it was fun tearing it apart though.

Wesley, How old are you? How did you learn all this stuff? I am amazed!!

Love...absolutely love this format of video!

Thanks man. Never seen the inside of a 6 cyl Porsche engine.

Ahh, the famous Vanos device in a Porsche engine. I like the cage around the crankshaft, seems to save some weight.

Please put a freevalve on this engine! There are a lot of moving parts you could remove. (4 camshafts, 5 chains, the intermediate shaft, the chain tensioners, 2 variocam systems...)

I dream of taking apart engines like this. Can't wait to have the room and finances for it :)

That was an awesome job Sr.

Nice Guzzi. I've got a '12 V7, but the valvecovers and exhaust flanges on yours makes me think it's older. Unless its a custom build

Weird design choices seem to be a common theme in German automotive engineering.

I can't wait to see the video for next week. As much detail as possible please

Very nice this! Cant understand why your channel has so few subscribers. Thanks!

Thank you for all the fantastic content! Please though: Tell me you're at least tone deaf or *something*, as seeing the breadth of disciplines with which you display an aptitude is more than a little humbling for the rest of us... Excited to see more for as long a you continue to enjoy sharing!

Cool video again!!! Will there somewhere in the future be a video of you rebuilding this one with new bearings and maybe freevalve tech??

So to answer your question of what to do with all of that I'm almost positive that you have broke that engine down into such a manner that you can distinguish between ferrous and non-ferrous metals. I bet somewhere there's a scrap yard that would be more than happy to accept all of that garbage and you might even make a little bit of coin. Or you could hot soak all of it and make it all clean and look pretty and then turn it into some freakish chandelier that only a Porsche owner would love

This point of frustration with a project is the worst point because you do silly/stupid things like risk warping heads by disassembling them wrong. It’s fine not to care about something but when it holds a monetary value or perhaps a future purpose it’s not the best thing to do

hello there This is amazing build. I noticed you are changing to a V12. I would be interested to purchase the throttle bodies and wiring harness and the ECU for the Boxster S engine if you no longer are going to need them. I have a project car that i am installing Porsche Boxster S engine and transmission in and i need the stand alone wiring and ECU. please let me know if you would like to sell those items. Thank you

I'm a european mechanic in the rust belt and i love triple squares! Extremely hard to strip out when compared to allen and torx.

My uncle did the same with a watch, took it all apart, then reassembled it. He had one gear left over, and it only took 4 hours to go round, instead of 12.

Would Pneumatic or electromagnetic freevalve give you some degree of protection (at least at low RPM) from bent valves as air is compressible and electromagnetic could be back driven. I mean I guess if freevalve is working properly it's a non issue as its not like you can skip a tooth or break a chain or belt. I'm not sure if this is actually a question lol. Any Thoughts?

Yes, do more of these.

Just last week I saw someone’s Boxster engine on their garage floor - with a big hole in the block. It was reason number 7 - oil starvation due to blocked pickup. Previous owner had messily used silicone instead of a gasket.

Good work that man. Just done the same to mine. RTV instead of gasket? 4.53 That’s how they came from the factory. There’s no gasket for the cam covers, the oil pan or the engine cases.

Looking forward to the freevalve video and i learnt not to take engines apart at 2am cause you will likley loose a bolt lol

The only valve cover I've seen like that Porsche one that actually use rtv is a Mercedes v6 used in the sedans and r350

I guess I've never seen the cases split on a Porsche as I had no idea they crank sat in it's own cage! Does that part have a name? I always assumed they were like Subaru's boxer motors in which the main journals are just machined out of each half of the case.

These engines do not come with cam cover gaskets from the factory. The use a style of rtv sealant like Drei Bond.

Kinda wild the valve cover has the cam journals built in. Never knew that. Also how can you say 12 point are the worst when E-Torx exists? Hahaha. Fun teardown!

I wish I could do this. I don’t even know how to get to the level of knowledge you have..

love your videos man

Nothing wrong with 12 points. Nothing worse than a hex nut that you can't get the spanner on either way round due to space or angle 😆😆 12 point eliminates that 👌 loving the engine unboxing by the way.... Get it? 😂😂

Man, your videos are awesome, i realy enjoy your videos. Hi from Spain.

Do a video series on how to get things done. I wanted to but had no time and haven't quite gotten my stuff done. ;)

That bearing isn’t just cooked, it’s been roasted over an open fire beyond rare

Just a few rpm away from goin thru the block. You caught it just in time.

After watching this I kind of got the vibe that Subaru did it better. All in all it was a good watch, thanks.

Do you have plans for this engine in the future?

Great! Love the long format...

Nice spun bearing. How bad was the crank?

Please show inspection of IMS and the bores :)

That is an obnoxiously complicated engine. Wow - I had no idea.

Do what you have fun doing bro