Mike J

I had 85K on my car when I pulled it apart, with the factory hone marks still on the jugs. Main bearings were perfect, with some slight wear on the layshaft. Rings were not worn out at all. I did debate about rebushing the rods, since they we also OK, but I figured while I was in there....so I replaced/rebushed a fair amount.

My valve guides were on the edge of Porsche wear specs (you measure by the amount the valve head wiggles in the bore at a certain extention), and my SAI passages had lots of carbon but most were open, if marginal. I could of squeezed more miles out of that engine with little effort.

What I am saying is you should be able to get lots and lots of miles from these engines, especially the bottom end. I can see that lasting 200K or more, just watch out to make sure your oils have good zinc content etc.

Cheers,

Mike

timothymoffat

+1, thanks for sharing.

CornerCarver

+1

helmet155

You mentioned warranty? Could you explain more about how you still have a warranty?

Blaine S

I bought the car from a Porsche dealer in Chicago when it had ~29k mi on the clock and purchased an extended warranty (3rd party) because I was concerned that "something" could go wrong. It's been about four years and I haven't used it!

So it was set to expire this month and I decided to take the car in for a full PPI. Since these oil leaks are covered by the warranty and there is a lot of labor to fix them I thought I would just sort the SAI/valve guide issue and whatever else she needed.

Quadcammer

No offense intended, but why are you impressed that an engine still has crosshatch at 50k miles? Thats nothing for a modern motor. Even 5.0 OHV ford engines with 150k miles have crosshatch on them.

bart1

Good deal - who is your 3rd party warrany from? I have one of those for 100k that is supposed to be pretty good, but never really thought I would use it. I got it thrown in for free when I got my car. Maybe when I get a few more miles, I'll do this as well.

Blaine S

The warranty is from Heritage. I can't say that I have a lot of experience filing a claim with them so we'll see.

Dudley

Ol' Lucy is going to be very jealous.

matt777

Have you actually got verification that they will pay to fix these leaks? I didn't think that these aftermarket warranties were that comprehensive.