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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
I suspect that adventure will be in my future. I hope to get a few more miles befe I do it. I will be at 142,000 by the end of summer. Maybe I can make it to 150K before I do it.
Are you doing the full rebuild, split the case and everything or just a top end?
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hey there are (2) schools of thought here. and we drank about 16 bill-yon cold ones sunday talking about this, with my amigo who has built more chev v-8's than i evar cared to. engine builders in the know do NOT start with a fresh block. they start with a SEASONED BLOCK! ie. it has been USED! why? cuz all da molecules are in der rightful places and its "seasoned". HUH? WTF? yeah thats what he said. then he said "why in hells name disrupt everything the factory did RIGHT when all yer gonna do is run it 1-maybeeee 3 times a year at a track and ya aint even racing!
then i asked my other amigo "if this was yours would you crack the cases after what you have seen so far?(he has 10+ years building porsches) and he said "NO!" and then i stated "if ya had more money than buddah would you crack the cases" and he replied....................."NO!"
now my other amigo with the exact same year 1987 coupe showroom stock "uncle jeff" did do new rod bearings and new ARB rod bolts. 3-4 hours more time. he had damn near the SAME MILEAGE AS ME!
so yeah i am kind of in a quandry at this very moment but i am leaning towards NOT cracking the cases right now.
i admit i have read a ton of articles here that peoples wrote how not a damn thing was wrong with their bottom end and they felt it never needed to be touched and they went on to enjoy a happy life and run the snot out of them after a top end freshen up, nip and tuck.
the morning after is always fun looking at everythang we tore apart for anything suspect. we will see by this afternoon anything else wrong that may sway our train of thought.
so far so good. and i am having a blast doing it!