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Originally Posted by Trackrash
Here is something to consider. Use a mirror or jack up the car and look at the cylinders. Count the cooling fins on the cylinders. If they have 11 then you most likely have Mahles and there is a good chance they are re-useable. If they have 10 they are KS and will need to either be replaced or honed, plated and new pistons installed. Good news is, you can upgrade the cylinders to get 3,2L for about the same money as the stock 3,0, with KS cylinders being re-worked.
Good luck.
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Get it out, look to see what pistons/cylinders you have, if they are KS Alusils do not touch them unless you really have to, get the studs out, put new ones in and put it back together. It may very well go another 50K - or more. I would go the least expensive route because once you go there it's $6K minimum, probably more, and then you'll be without a car. I would actually drive it until the Fall, pull the engine and do it this winter.
Keep what you have and be smart. Once you go into the Porsche 911 engine Circle Of Trust you're in deep - and only out of it when you've spent thousands and thousands.