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Originally Posted by CJFusco
It turns out that MANY Porsche owners in the early 2000s received BRAND NEW cars with blue paint on their engines. The word from the big U.S. Porsche tuners/engine-builders, based on the info they've managed to squeeze out of people at Porsche AG is that the blue paint means that some component failed during initial quality control tests, and that the engine was remanufactured before being installed into a BRAND NEW car. According to some sources (I'm hesitant to name names out of school), they've found evidence of cases that were WELDED from the factory in blue-paint cars (but never cars WITHOUT the blue paint).
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Interesting. I've heard about the welded cases on the re-man engines, but never heard of one actually being discovered on an original engine.
I know there is a lot of unconfirmed info out there, so I'd be cautious to take anything as hard-fact, but it certainly is a bit unsettling if true...
Still, I'd be curious to know if
your engine is original. If you aren't sure, maybe ordering a COA/Kardex would be worthwhile?