Lotta car for the money if it checks out ... even with the "turbo wheelz."

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...-14-900-a.html

But a pretty unfortunate name for a car salesman ... Christopher Hoexum.

 

I would think it would make a great track car.

 

I don't know anything about this car but what would someone do service wise if they bought it?

 

Lower it, for starters.

With 133K on the clock, that strongly supports the notion that this particular engine is OK. A big plus here.

 

my buddy bought a 99 with about 30someK off his neighbor for $17-18K

 

bet they paid about $10k for it

 

http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/cto/2481292299.html

$2K cheaper!

N/A

 

The Craigslist car needs a clutch... he quotes $540 for a new clutch. Sure. Just the disk. Other required parts and labor are extra.

The Pelican car says "3.4" liter engine. Ummmm. Wasn't that the Boxster engine? Or did the early 996s also have the 3.4?

 

Yeah, many 996s are available in my area, but I'm afraid of IMS,,,

 

First 996 was a 3.4 ... they went to the 3.6 in the Turbo and later in the 2002 996.

 

All of them through '01 had 3.4s. '99s still had a throttle cable, which to me is the sole selling point of early 996-as-a-track-car. (We'll put aside for the moment that you'd nearly spend again what this listed for to make it reliable on the track. And then you'd still have a drive-by-wire 996 with an engine nearly at the end of its life span.) Boxster M96s are 2.5 ('97-'99), then 2.7. Boxster S is 3.2. Through the 986 variant, anyway.

Back to THIS car. So you buy it cheap. And by cheap I mean ~$12K tops. Then you drive it 20-30-even 50K. Engine, if it lasts that long, is "plain wore out" at that point. Then what? Donate it to the shooting range like the tip a couple of weeks ago that had the bad engine? So you've spent $8-10-12K to drive 50K miles. Suppose it beats some new car depreciation..........

Simple truth is that no one in his right mind will fix what's worn out on one of these. So why not buy something decent to begin with for a little more, if 996s float your boat. Or stay with us in the stone age and enjoy the previous generation that you can freshen when the time comes without spending more than what the carcass is worth?

 

the 996 is a red headed stepchild of p car world.

They were decent. Just not desired.
Gt3 version is the pick of the litter

 

A 996 tip is still a superstar in the Porsche world when compared to a '77 924 automatic. Or a tailshift 914 1.7. Or a 912E. Hell, even something like a '77 911 Sportomatic w/ Comfort Group (14" wheels + soft rear torsion bars). Porsche has made a LOT of dogs over the years.

 

If I couldn't swing a 996 GT3, I would go cheap and look for an '00 or '01 with a documented warranty engine replacement for about $20K.

Remember, you can't see the ugly-*** headlights from the driver's seat!

 

IMS bearing retrofit...

relatively cheap insurance
We (FDM) now do these on the M96 engines.