Rebuild in progress, take a look at these intake valves.

[lts]

Owner of a 1984 3.2 here. Bought a few years back and was told "engine rebuilt 10k miles ago". Odo say approx 150k miles. Engine was running just fine so i took a chance.

However, after my local garage found a half head stud after a valve adjustment, i realized that i probably should have had more documentation on the "rebuild".

Anyways. Winter and time for projects, so i have bought the book, dropped the engine, and started teardown.

After removing the intake today, i was exited to finally get down to some top end details

Looking forward getting deeper into it, but wiithout any previous experience with these engines, would you say these intake valves look like they had 150k miles to then? or could it be that someone actually touched this engine recently. Looks pretty good to me.

[dkirk]

I'd say that the seller was honest as these intake valves look very low-time to me. The rebuilder probably didn't replace the original head studs, explaining the failure.

[Magyar Kiwi]

Hi
Looks clean to me to.
Some ideas to reduce your work scope, see link below
Cheers
https://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/1160618-extracting-broken-head-studs-engine-still-car.html

[85RedCarrera]

Judging from the lack of oil contamination/buildup, the seals and possibly guides were probably also replaced.

[porschedude996]

The inside looks better than the outside.

[30westrob]

What fuel are you using, as the detergent package seems to be doing a good job. Rob

[Tippy]

That motor is very fresh judging by the ports and valves.

Or, that motor ran on E85.

[Jeff Alton]

What do the exhaust ports look like?

[safe]

The 3.2 isn't/wasn't that known for breaking head studs, so he might not have replaced them.
My 3.2 had 1 head stud break, but it was corroded.
The intake valves looks immaculate.