Jvmcnair,
It was nice chatting with you on the phone concerning your classic intermix issue. We see this over and over in the 2000 model year vehicles, both 996 and Boxster.
As tonythetarga references you should contact EBS before we engage in shipping your car cross country to us for the specialized services. They are much closer to you; they charge less and can get the car back to you much faster than we can.
We always prefer the entire car being shipped to us as long as the car is anywhere in North America and the shipping is easy. This way we can carry out all the steps related to the repair/ reconstruction here with no variables and that includes chassis dyno testing as well as on-road testing. I prefer to put a couple hundred miles on each car personally after our procedures are completed, so we can carry out the first service as well as other evaluations prior to shipping.
As an incentive for owners to ship their cars cross country we offer FREE extraction and installation of the engine to include all incidentals. Most shops will charge 3,000.00 to carry out this work, but the most it costs to ship a 996 is around 1K each way, so you can do the math on that and then also consider that there is no sales tax if we ship a car out of state. It means this much to us to personally install the engine and test it to my standards to ensure that it is performing exactly as all the others we have worked with in our extensive library. Doing this any other way creates variables that are not favorable for the owner or our reputation, so we refrain from even considering them.
About the only time that we don't see the vehicle is when an engine is shipped from abroad, like this one thats here from Hong Kong.
As we had discussed on the phone; we were the very first shop in the USA to take these engines seriously and develop internal repair regimens for them as well as offer complete reconstructed engines. We did this at a time when others in the industry laughed at us for even considering to work with an engine that at the time could be bought new from the factory for 5-7K; meanwhile our engine (even back then) was 15K+. It has taken many, many years for our program to attain its reputation and we do everything humanly possible to retain it.
We compromise nothing in pursuit of the best possible solutions to these problems. If you'd like to speak with owners; we can get you in touch with them. The majority of our purchasers are not "forumites" and here you probably won't find any, although I may be incorrect.
If you have further questions refer to our forums, our Facebook page at
Flat 6 Innovations - Cleveland, GA - Automobiles and Parts | Facebook or email us. We share lots of our builds on facebook and the owners of those cars often chime in there, so you can connect with past and present clients fairly easily.
We have a truck leaving northern California heading this way at the end of next week, but I believe we filled the final slot available on it yesterday evening.
Our record for a single truckload is 3 Porsches delivered from California all at once :-)
