Hilton

Well, that, and the massive cost of getting it federalised.

For any US buyers, it needs to be a 25 year old car before import becomes economical.

ROG100

25 years old and it is real easy - 24 years old and you are talking $20k.
As already said 1992 does not work until 2017.

May be better to ship it to the UK and wait like I did with the SE.

ROG100

In those types of temperatures in a GTS you had better be using 10W 60. Similar to TX.
Sewing machine oils do not work at all.

ROG100

Phil - how much for RoRo to Southampton? Will it drive at all?
What are storage costs like in Dubai? Like 3 years?

JWise

Oh how I would love to take this car and drop in Joe's 7-liter engine, which is also for sale.

hacker-pschorr

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77tony

Have a friend in Canada ? Leave it there till 2017 then go. T

Bilal928S4

Step away from my car. Keep walking. Nothing to see here!!

J1720

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Tom. M

Perhaps it could come in to the States as "parts". Pull the engine and send it separately from the car?

FredR

Phil,

What colour is this car as a matter of interest?

Porsche Middle East have been putting Mobil 1 0W40 in these & all their other cars for years. I refused this and run on 20W50 Shell Super Helix [allegedly good zinc content] Dino oil [or GTX if I can get it] now with a bottle of STP thrown in for good measure to help assure the zinc content- runs well and the cam bay was very clean internally when I last looked a couple of months ago.

I doubt the thin oil has anything to do with the TBF condition- all that can be said for a thrust bearing is that if such a bearing is overloaded the oil with the lowest film strength will fail first. Syn oils [with low viscosity] can and often do have higher film strengths than Dino oils with higher visocity, but then not all oils are the same and neither are all engines. Simple fact of the matter is that under normal circumstances the thrust bearing loading is minimal- once the flex plate collar slips it becomes a disc brake not designed for such loads- it overheats-the oil film brakes down, the white metal bearing fails & the rest is history. I have the evidence somewhere in my display cabinet.

It would be a nice thing if you can pair a needy new owner in the States and help out the poor SOB in Dubai who has suffered the loss-hopefully no one I know!

Presumably all this depends on the market value of such a failed example Stateside which in turn is probably dictated by what the likes of Mark A may be prepared to pay for such to stock his inventory/continue the line.

Interestingly, Porsche Middle East [maybe Oman specifically] now put Mobil 1 10w50 in the Cayenne Turbo but only [so they say] to reduce the oil consumption rate.

Regards

Fred

oups59

5 speed or auto?

I have a spare engine waiting

PHIL928

I got some more info from Terry.

The car initially had a Timing belt failure, not the thrust bearing my apologies.

They sent the car to a dodgy back street shop for repairs because no one else would work on it...
The mechanics said they found scoring on a couple of the cylinders and proceeded to hone all the cylinders, which we all know requires a special process, but they did not.
Reassembled the engine and tried running it, shortly thereafter it became useful as a boat anchor.

So in theory if you modify an S4 block, could you use all the parts from this engine to build a GTS motor?

Terry said he's going to take some pictures and find out more about the car, mileage, books, history etc So should have that for you guys pretty soon.

Bilal has called dibbs on this one FYI

PHIL928

RoRo to the UK is only ~£1000 but I'm not sure it's driveable...

Storage, well, I honestly have no idea, I've tried to find storage and it is expensive... I don't know anyone that could help either :/

Peter F

Wonder what shipping to Sweden would be