FBIII

A technical issue regarding this situ. If he flipped the engine over and removed the girdle finding it only needed main bearings, can he replace and retorque the girdle without pulling the heads? Can the girdle be correctly torqued with the top of the engine already built?

Imo000

Yes it can withouht any problem. To be safe move the cams to the 45degree mark.

Shark Attack

the seller made me a very good deal on a very nice 911 with a turbo slant nose body coversion. a car he has been driving for the last 6 months. im so excited! i will finally get to drive one of my Porsches! i have not picked it up yet. maybe tomorrow or early next week.

Imo000

I bet he'll sell the 928 as is to someone else. Is he a dealer?

Shark Attack

no one else is going to get the shaft. i asked him to buy this car from him. he was honest with me the whole way. he told me he never heard it run. and he had no idea of the condition. thats why i go the car for 2700.00. I bought it with an undersanding he would help me if it was in real bad shape. and he has. I have no complaint about hte guy. and no he is not a dealer. he does however deal mostly with 944's. if he sells the car the new owner will know. it will either end up on ebay in parts or he will put anohter motor in it. or sell it to someone and be honest. He didn't lie to me at all.

hinchcliffe

So you bought it for $2700, and was planning on selling it for $6000? Hmmmmmmmmm, it's not on ebay is it?

BC

I think the freaking vin number should be posted, or someone's Karma will be hurt badly.

Jim_H

Yep

Bill Ball

This was not bad luck. An 89 S4 for $2700? Undoubtedly it had to be junk. I gather this was a dealer. Most likely he bought this at an auction for under $2000. These wholesale auctions are loaded with junk cars that can't be sold to the public by brand name dealers. He paid a junk car price and passed it on to you. You discovered the TBF, but that may only be the beginning. At one time I thought I was going to be a used car dealer and I attended some of these auctions. I once bought a nice looking almost new MBZ 560SL at one of these auctions. After I got it home I discovered it was put together from two different cars. I got it cheap because I was a rookie and the other buyers spotted this car as a problem from across the room. It took me a while to figure out what had happened with the DMVs help. The car was involved in a stolen car insurance scam. The CHP wanted me to drop the car off for "inspection". Yeah, sure. I took the car back to the auction and had a tense negotiation with the sellers and finally got my money back, and that was manyfold what you paid. So, this is another one of those cases where the proverb is proven true...If it looks too good to be true it probably is. Forget trying to cheat the system - pay a decent price for a decent car.

Jim bailey - 928 International

Ah the ethical question ... you suddenly realize that that crisp new $100 bill in your pocket is counterfeit..... Turn it in to the bank and you get ZERO , try to pass it on

Bill Ball

Jim:

Good one. The sellers were taken care of after I returned the car. The CHP and I discussed this, and it was not clearly to their advantage that I personally give them the car. They just needed to see it sometime soon. So, I decided that turning the car over to the CHP probably would just have left me $38K lighter. And I soon decided I could not swim with the sharks that inhabit the used car business in LA and Orange County where I lived at the time. I have two or three other choice stories to illustrate that the decision did not come soon enough.

Shark Attack

You Guys, He said he is going to part it out. I will post the VIN when I get home tonight. You talk about karma….. I didn’t want to bite the hand that was trying to help me. He DID NOT put the screws to me. As Bill Ball said, I paid junk price and took a chance. It didn’t work out. and the comment about hmmmm 6000 and he only paid 2700… you seem to forget, THEY asked me what I would take for the car before I weighed all my options. If they were willing to pay 6000.00 that would have made up my mind of what I was going to do with the car. good luck to all. maybe someday i willl revisit a 928. I sure have learned a bunch. I also have a new dash pad set from 928 intl. i paid i think about 130.00 ill take 200.00 ( just kidding its going with the car.) many thanks to Rich at electronik repair

Bill Ball

OK, SA. The 2700/6000 thing was not clear. Do keep shopping. There are plenty of perfectly good 928s for not a lot of money. Even without the TBF, you probably would have put more into the interior restoration that you started and other mechanicals than it would have cost had you just bought a decent example. That's almost always true. Agreed, this is how most of us learn.

928SS

does it have an LSD rear end???? if so.... give me a holla.... the vultures are already airborne...