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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera View Post
They buy a 997 for 15,000 pounds, and it has bore scoring, so it needs an engine rebuild.
That motor looked like it was pulled out of a lake...what a mess. And yeah, that backdating effort, with those cheesy gold wheels, was a complete waste of time.

I also thought that the segment on the machine work was interesting. I didn't realize that repairing the bores was such an effort.
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