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Originally Posted by PeteKz
I'm trying to remain polite. Why do you have to be personally insulting and hostile in your responses?
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What you are seeing is the passion I have for these topics. Your recommendations to avoid splitting the case on an air-cooled Porsche engine is irresponsible. I've explained ad nauseam why you should never do a half assed job when tackling the repair/maintenance of these collectable/expensive projects.
If you wonder why I single you out, it's because you often call me out when you make this irresponsible suggestion.
Beyond making irresponsible claims you have questioned the motives I have for making the recommendations I make for DIY builders and/or when working with my customers. Questioning my integrity will always put you in my crosshairs.
EDIT: Experience matters
One of the reasons I am so passionate about splitting the case on an air-cooled 911 engine can be related in a story (one of many) from the past.
A customer/friend came to me with a smile on his face. He had lost his prize collectable in a divorce and years later was able to buy it back,
The project was an early 70s VW bus with a 3.2 Carrera engine and a 915 Transmission. When Fat Performance built the project, they started with a very low mileage 3.2 engine. The reason for the visit was that something was leaking profusely. According to the odometer, the engine only had 80K miles on it but it was leaking badly. When we open it up we found broken head studs and leaks mainly from the oil return tubes. The owner is a renowned member of the So Cal Porsche community with a great deal of knowledge about collectibles and marketing but he lacked some important mechanical understanding. I presented him with an estimate and strongly suggested he rebuild the bottom end because he had no real idea what the life of this engine had entailed. He chose to roll the dice. Sure enough, snake eyes appeared. The engine went another 80 miles before it spun a rod. There were two possible scenarios for this occurrence. It ran low on oil (given the huge leak) or multiple over-revs. Given the fact that one rod nut was sitting in the sump, I surmised the latter. Over-rev leading to a stretched rod bolt.
The smile and joy from retrieving this lost gem turned to anger and disgust. I offered to help him get past this disaster but he decided to sell the project as is.
His heart was in the right place (very low mileage) but he failed to consider what might have happened in the years between owning his bus.