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Originally Posted by jess p
Catorce
I have several 3.0, 3.2 extra cases lying around. It’s just that I have a new set of 2.7 P/C and newly machined heads I picked up for cheap. I’m not a member of the Hoidy Toidy Porsche club and just going to pack up this 2.7 mag case, pay 3-4 hundred dollars to ship it to Kalifornica, then pay another $2K plus bucks for machine work just because people of the Hoidy Toidy club says that’s the thing to do. This engine ran fine after the oil leak. Old gaskets, o-rings and everything else that seals this engine will fail after 46 years. I hope some of these “ famous” machine shops that cater to the Hoidy Toidy Porsche club made enough money for their retirement cause when mag cases are all gone so will be their cash flow.
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First of all, it's "hoity toity"
Second of all, I own a machine shop, and I don't rehab old Porsche cases, I build new ones.
You need to understand the amount of work that goes into rehabbing one of these old cases. On average, they need to:
- Make spigots round
- Make case parting surfaces flat
- Make spigot deck flat
- Install case savers
- Clear out and clean oil passages
That's just to start, and that alone, on average, takes 15+ hours of machine time or more, usually billed at 125 per hour. Again, those things are needed even if the case looks good to the naked eye.
So what you are trying to do is take quite literally the ****tiest case Porsche ever made and fix it up on the cheap and expect it to last. You can sprinkle sugar on a turd, and that doesn't make it candy.
Take your fancy 2.7 heads and sell it to some fool, then build up your 3.0 or 3.2. You'll be much happier and it will probably be cheaper.