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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
I agree about the air-cooled 911 issues Denis, my point was more regarding money. Repairing snapped head studs or doing a top end rebuild on a classic 911 is very near to the cost of a new M96 engine. If your top end turns into a full rebuild it could easily be more if new P&Cs are required. Your buddy has terrible luck, because for every owner that has an IMS failure there are probably one hundred with no issues.
Steve, the IMS lawsuit is done and I think the timeframe to make a claim has passed.
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Are you joking? My buddy is the luckiest guy on earth. Porsche has paid for (2) complete replacement engines on his car. Most people with ISB failures are left with a 3k lb. paper weight that isn't worth fixing and their dick in their hand.
Also, I did a very complete top-end job on my former 911SC that included Carrera tensioners, (completely unnecessary except for resale to the lemmings who believe everything on the web), 24 new studs, heads completely redone by Competition Engineering, (the best and most expensive), a list of "while you were in theres" as long as your arm, split case and did main bearings, and on and on and on...
It cost me about $3500 DIY with a lot of help from this board and that included $1400 to CE for heads. How you can compare this to a $15-20k long block from PCNA is beyond me. A failed ISB does not have a DIY solution, other than R&Ring the engine, I guess.
The design failure of that engine is what it is. Would I still own one? Yes, and I have. But I'm not in some fairyland about the problem.
