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Originally posted by dmac
I have a '77 911 2.7... at 28 years old and 90,000 miles it has never been apart and runs great. The studs torque fine. It has the 11 blade fan, oil fed tensioners, and no reactors. I use Mobil-1 15W-50 changed once a year, which is about 3000 miles. I wish it had another 100 hp, but thats another topic.
I think that your exception "proves the rule" here. If all Mag cased CIS 911's had the care (and mods) you have given yours, well then we would just be seeing a lot of worn out fuel distributors, and injectors, and a few bad vacuum lines on these cars.
In the real world, most of these cars were bought and driven unmodified by their first owner, at least, causing a lot of abbreviated lifetimes...
Bottom line, a good car, with a good engine, with a lot of poorly concieved band aids hung on in the 1975-1980 time period.
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