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I have to admit, with all your bs’ing about buying Cayennes, 997’s, building a motor, painting your 98 Ford blue etc.. I still can’t believe it.
Enjoy the Turbo forum….please😎
sorry it wasn’t bsing I wanted more power in the car. The way my mind works when I purchase something that I can negotiate is I set a max price and then i work on it, same as i buy stocks. Yes I wanted to do one or two things with my car, 1. Make it faster by building an engine, couldn’t do any more mods to my car. I even had the pistons in hand here, I returned them yesterday. 2. I wanted a Carrera S 997.1, prices on a .2 where high, and pretty difficult to find 6 speeds 997.2. Finally i got a turbo
at a price I’m comfortable sleeping with. the guys over here which we text on a daily basis think I got a great deal, so do I. I would love to get a Cayenne GTS but to be honest the F150 it’s a lot more useful since the wife has a 21
mb suv, and the lower mileage examples I have seen in my opinion have been overpriced. I really like my coupe but I don’t have the garage space. If I had a 4 car garage then things would be a lot different. I also started pricing what the paint job and engine build install was going to cost and I decided to put the money in the metzger instead.
I have even cleaned the piston tops. These are 3.6 JE. It’s crazy the amount of hard carbon deposits that accumulate on the pistons of these engines. As Skip porsche tech 3 pointed out a ticking noise could be excesive carbon deposits and not bore scoring. Rods were stock but basically brand new. I shipped them back yesterday and I’ll be getting my money back as soon as they get there.
Last edited by 3/98 911 coupe; 04-22-2022 at 09:14 PM.
if you didn’t install it I’m going to need the bracket that I sent you to sell it as a kit with the 3.8 s airbox. Pm me about the box. Yes the bracket is ss from fabspeed.
Step 1: Get a Sunday close on BaT
Step 2: Have original hollow turbo twist wheels, and all original paperwork
Step 3: Have an early build date with ambers all around
This was good money for the seller for a cabriolet.
See below 2 scans of the Excellence Magazine classified ads from Jun 1997. I bought a '82 911SC in 1995 for $15K, but these pages do characterize the market at that time. For example the early 911s were dirt cheap ('73 and before) , maybe $10K-$15K, nobody wanted them. And now what, they go maybe $100K+
The print is pretty small, so I hope it is readable.
Step 1: Get a Sunday close on BaT
Step 2: Have original hollow turbo twist wheels, and all original paperwork
Step 3: Have an early build date with ambers all around
This was good money for the seller for a cabriolet.
car was sold for $25k a year ago. The seller has to be extremely happy.
See below 2 scans of the Excellence Magazine classified ads from Jun 1997. I bought a '82 911SC in 1995 for $15K, but these pages do characterize the market at that time. For example the early 911s were dirt cheap ('73 and before) , maybe $10K-$15K, nobody wanted them. And now what, they go maybe $100K+
The print is pretty small, so I hope it is readable.
Even adjusting for inflation, those were some cheap cars!
Thanks for sharing that. Funny to see the first-year Boxster worth so much.
Step 1: Get a Sunday close on BaT
Step 2: Have original hollow turbo twist wheels, and all original paperwork
Step 3: Have an early build date with ambers all around
This was good money for the seller for a cabriolet.
Originally Posted by 3/98 911 coupe
car was sold for $25k a year ago. The seller has to be extremely happy.
Seller put ~$5K into the car in the year they owned it. Still not a bad deal.
04-22-2022, 09:06 PM
I don’t overpay for things.
