lowpue

That is a lot of junk in the sump????
This is what I found when my engine stopped running....in in my opinion this is a lot of junk😀....

996AE

TRUTH

808Bill

You two need to knock off the BS! Both of you continue to dog out the greatest asset we have in our community and some of us a tired of it!
I hope neither of you experience some sort of catastrophic failure, but if you do, who you gonna call?

Scott at Team Harco

Yep - that's a lot. At least there's no bike tire though. So you've got that going for you - which is nice.

Scott at Team Harco

Agree with Bill - you two trolls are getting tiresome.

I've found there are a few here that go out of their way to be anti-social, call anyone else's stuff junk, or otherwise can find nothing positive to add to any conversation. All I can say: karma's a bitch.

Andy Ericksen

I'll check that tonight, thanks for pointing it out.

The bike tire freaked me out for a split second until I remembered that the bike is hanging from the rafters right above where I was working.

996AE

Please do open your eyes to fact that 90% plus of all 996 cars dont and wont have CAT failure. And, to the real possibility that IMSB failure on RL is overblown, and just maybe by those profiting by it.

No BS.

Truth.

Nice thing about opinion blogs is we can disagree.

Chris(MA)

Pull the oil pump off and take a close look at the condition of the pump lobes and housing. It will tell you a lot about how much of that kind of debris got sucked up etc.

you might have gotten lucky with this, if all that debris is just the IMS itself you *might* have caught it in time and some minimal work and $ will get it back on the road. Still gotta hand rotate and scope etc, replace IMS and flush flush flush!

De Jeeper

Great, every time u post u bring up this point. Your arguement really looses traction when posting in a tread about a car with a catastrophic failure. This motor is a full dissassembly and rebuild at this point and someone is going to profit from it and it has nothing to do with the guys 'hyping' the issue.

docmirror

C'mon Bill, it's a big world. I'm pretty sure there's more than one qualified shop for the M96. Besides, from rumors(actually from the guy himself), they are so backed up with work, they won't even talk to you until Trump is re-elected. (oops, that were an accident!)

DreamCarrera

The number of sycophants here is downright creepy...

I have no clue who you are referring to as I've never called anyone's stuff junk nor engaged in unprovoked outright anti-social behavior.

As far as Karma is concerned, I couldn't care less as I'm not a practitioner of Hinduism or Buddhism.

DreamCarrera

Good to know but you can surely understand my skepticism as this is a very curious way to purchase a first Porsche (i.e., paying $7,500 for a high-priced European roller without having a prior plan to professionally fix or replace the engine, or possessing the experience or knowledge to fix the engine (or even knowing what these options will cost) yourself).

I wish you the best of luck in getting the car back on the road...if you can salvage the engine with minor DIY repairs it will prove to be an excellent deal for you but the amount of debris that has circulated through that running engine may have, unfortunately, turned much of it into scrap metal.

808Bill

I did the exact same thing last September.
Now I have a fantastic running and good looking 02 for $10K (roller + motor).

Porschetech3

....and the wooden particle board !!! lol..I had to got back through all the pictures to figure out WTF you were talking about !!!

docmirror

Pfft. About 20 years ago I purchased a 1937 Cord Beverly. Now, I have to qualify a bit as about 80% of it was in BOXES. A crank here, a wheel hub there. It was a giant puzzle. I had no affiliation with anyone in the Auburn Cord Duesenberg club, and I paid way over $7500 bucks back then. Plenty of the repairs was u-make-it with a welder and a lathe. It was fun, and a ton of work. He'll be fine.