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Originally Posted by 450knotOffice

Eric Oviatt of Hergesheimer runs a Boxster Spec and he absolutely flogs that 130,000+ mile engine. No problems. He's one of at least half a dozen Spec Boxster drivers in the POC, and to be honest I can't recall having seen ANY of those engines fail at the many races and Time Trials I've seen them run.

The early problems with block porosity are long gone (an early batch that was culled quickly), the slipping cylinder liner on the small bore engines seems to be gone these days, and the well known poorly designed IMS bearing and support flange can be easily replaced with a bomb proof re-design by LN Engineering.

My own 996 has quite a few track days under its belt (a few years ago) and is my daily driver with 126,000 miles on it. It has been as reliable as any car I've owned over this amount of mileage. I had the IMS bearing replaced six months ago for peace of mind and I seriously have NO worry with this car carrying on for another 100,000 miles.

By the way, my wife drives a 2007 Cayman and has nearly 60,000 trouble free miles on that sweet car.

Just sayin'

I am pretty sure he has the LN Engineering fixes like the intermediate shaft bearing upgrade.