I don’t know that you can touch an NSX for $50k anymore. At least not a decent one.

No automatics! EVER! ;)

If I was to move on from Porsche, I wouldn't look at another P-car.

Fd3s is high on my want list, but might be worse for stress and pocket books than a Porsche

The Honda K24 swap is an amazing set up, 250WHP NA, on a mostly stock Honda motor.

My general thinking is:

C7 GS, power, handling, reliability, cost hard car to make an argument against, unless you're a snob.

Gen 1 Viper (need to understand costs and see if it drives like poop)

R32 GTR (need to understand costs)

Lotus Elise

Sell the Porsche and give up on cars all together. lol

Nope, NSX's shot past 911's when I was looking. If not I might be on an NSX forum talking about how much my NSX doesn't break ;)

Sounds like you are just three head studs and some seals short of the finish line.
You can do this.... :D

What I really want is a well sorted 911, under 2300lbs with 250hp.... but I think that will take another $30-40K into a car that's worth $25K. I just can't justify that.

Whatever the plan, it will include me correcting the head studs next year. Can't sell a car with broken bits, unlike the OP of my car. :|

How about a C4 ZR1? Kinda stupid cheap for what they are.

Yea, I think I mentioned C4 LT5 a few posts back. I actually like the C4, I think it is aging very well. The LT5 is an amazing engine, and who doesn't love a clamshell hood!

Some would say the same about a Boxster. Lot of car for little money if you buy 10 years old and older. They have their issues especially in the IMS bearing days but that's not too expensive to fix. A lot of them have already had the fix and are still cheap.

I can't remember the first year of the longer driver's compartment but it's a huge change for those of us taller than 5'10" or with long legs. I would drive the thing every day (a 2000) if it were that longer model. However, since the wife needs to move the seat up to drive it, it is and always has been her car. I bought it for her in her favorite color, another thing I'm not crazy about.

Fooking bright red. So it sits months at a time.

I didn't study these sales, but it seems like in the 1991 vintage, there's good deals on NSXs, and I'm sure you pay more than you have to on BaT.

https://bringatrailer.com/acura/nsx/

Formula Ford...

https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/news/a18412/virtually-affordable-racing/

That is great! Yes, I did similar. Fortunately, that was about 10 years ago (back when a good car or roller was readily available). I had just finished that (my first 911) car...except for paint could have used a refresh...but still looked really good (original black paint). Body was perfect and it was a CA/NM car so zero rust. It was a '74 with sport seats and a 7:31 that I had put a freshly built Supertec hotrod engine in and then a full AC system that blew 32 in the summer. It was amazingly fast for a 3.0...so quick that I had to upgrade from 15x6 to 15x7 wheels and wider, stickier tires because you could burn the old ones off at a stop light launch. I had just put it back on the road after much money/work. Broke my heart and the insurance only gave me 13K which was about what a professionally done/documented fresh engine and went for then.

Fortunately, I was able to get them to sell the entire car back to me for less than what one the four 7' Fuchs was worth...much less the drivetrain or sport seats. I looked for the "right" roller (another '74) to swap the parts onto for months and did not find one. Finally I gave up and bought a pristine, low mileage '89 from a Pelican in CA (they were around $20K then). After driving it home, the next week, someone's ebay deal on a '74 with perfect paint and body fell through (I had tried to buy it before and was outbid).

I went ahead and bought it too (for $10K), sight unseen (except for photos). It was a no-rust CA car that had been shipped to IL by a "collector" and had sat inside for the last 10 years...being slowly "restored". It was displaced in the "collection" with a more rare/valuable model. It had a fresh, glass-out paint job and supposedly a rebuilt 2.7. It arrived with a lot of little issues I had fixed on my other car like shifter bushings and coupler bushings disintegrated...but was a pretty good car as is.

Since that was before anyone prized a matching numbers middie, I swapped all of the parts from my first car to the new one (except the ones that were better)...and was able to upgrade the suspension while in there (as I sold the engine, tranny and newly upholstered non-sport seats from the new car)...so came out with a better car with about the same investment. I actually came out with two, because I never would have bought the '89.

Other than the parts I mentioned that I sold, I boxed up most of the remaining removable parts and saved them (only really damaged the front...so I have almost a full car (other than chassis) in my basement from doors to bumpers. So...I am still sorta looking for a good candidate to build during my retirement...but have not come across one that I can justify/afford with current prices.

It just goes to show that...when one door closes another door (or maybe a window) opens.

That is a nice car. Does it still look that good? Wish I had room for it...

How is the AC? Would it get me back across the Desert to LV or Abq if I bought it?

Wife and I flew out to LA to pick up our '89 with nonfunctioning AC in the hottest weeks of summer. Had to buy bags of ice at gas stations to put behind our necks to keep reasonably cool when crossing to Vegas. Good time at the coast beforehand though.

There is a way to pull the entire bank of heads and the cam tower together as a unit. I have never done it but have read about it.

That would save a lot of time if you just want to fix the problem vs going nutso.

I'm working in Detroit for a month. I could swing by and yell at you to 'do some effing work' every night...

Seriously, I lived here for two years, and I would never drive a nice car here. The roads are terrible and every dent on my daily car came from this area. I keep a junker alive just to drive in Michigan.

I see a solution here....

Still looks just like it. I haven't really driven it in the past couple years but once a month to keep the oil going. That AC will keep your nipples hard all the way across the desert into NM on mid fan setting. AC blows really cold. I have too many cars and running out of room. That green car is being shuffled once every two weeks. Its killing me.

Fint, where the hell do you live. I take the 87 targa out for a drive and everybody waves smiles and generally enjoys seeing us out cruising. I had 4 pickups back to back wave when they passed us. No body ever rides my bumper and I rarely ever get more than 10 over. I’m sorry you are having such bad experiences.

A 15 year old Mercedes SL might fit the bill; cheap, fast, reliable and serviceable. Also at the bottom of the depreciation curve.