Thought I had posted these already, just some pics of the case at the thrust bearing. No cracks.

 

What a great thread. You mentioned the cluster being dead when you fired the car up. I had an 89 at my house a few years ago that had the same problem. After some digging on the internet found and old thread somewhere that recommended checking the dome light for a short. Pulled out the one in the 89 and it fell apart. Swapped with the one in the rear hatch area. Put some electrical tape between it and the roof and when I started the car, the cluster was back to life.

 

Thanks Mark, that will be the first thing I do when I get it running again. Shooting for early February. Hopefully the global warming will keep it's current pace.

 

Heads are packed and will be on their way to Bob at Anchor Atlantic tomorrow. Hope to get the new piston in tomorrow so I can bring the block, crank, pistons and rods up to Kinglsey machine shop in Nashua this week.

important question. If I plan on taking this car to DE, should I drill the crank? Do I need one of Greg's windage trays and spacer?

 

Great thread, but rather frightening.

An engine appearing to run alright being while in truth being a massive lemon... That is definitely something to create a sinking feeling in one who's currently in the market for a 928.

...especially one already replacing a lemon.

 

that's why you only buy out of love, not for an investment...owning a 928 is like owning a race car or hot rod, you will never get your money back in the end.

 

If you want positive ROI, you have to go 911 these days though it wasn't always that way. I predict 928s are the next bubble, especially if Porsche puts out a new 928 soon.

 

I don't think the new 960 will have any effect on 928 prices, it's been too long between the models, has nothing in common parts wise and it looks like a 2 door panamera.

 

lifters are cleaning up well.

 

4 months later and I've just heard from the 2 machine shops in the last week. I did talk with Bob at Anchor Atlantic 2 months ago though, he let me know the owner of the shop and person that was welding up the one bad head passed away suddenly. He called me the other day to let me know work has started again on the heads, one is already done.


Shop doing the block let me know that #5 has water scoring so I have to go with oversized pistons.

Here's where it may get interesting and I have to do some research but if anyone here knows, please post. I know you can build a high hp motor with a stroker crank, rods and bore the cylinders out to use 968 pistons, 104 vs. 100 mm. To build that motor it's about $20K and go to $30 easily, but my understanding is you get somewhere around 500 hp at 6+ liters.

That is completely out of the budget but I thought now would be a good time to bore the block out to 968 spec, same with the combustion chambers on the heads but retain the crank and rods.

Even if I got little to hp gain doing that, if the engine still ran well (with some sharktuning I'm sure) in that configuration, it makes sense to do it now.

Any thoughts on this?

 

If the goal is to get it running and drive it, why not just buy a known good short block. Install your heads, etc and get it on the road.

 

Post pictures of #5.

 

Good Point. I'd like to see that as well.

 

I'll go up this Saturday, if the shop is open, and take some pics.

 

Went to the machine shop last night. here's what water scoring looks like. 7 years of water in the cylinder where the rings were resting on the alusil.

I'm talking with Greg Brown about doing a 6.5L motor using this block, will probably use the engine from the crashed car to get the car going since rods alone are 2 months out.