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Originally Posted by sammyg2 View Post
When I bought my 911 SC it had 102,000 miles on it and 2 broken head studs IIRC.
But it weren't all blowed up.
Exactly. You break a head stud, you don't need to replace the engine. It's a pain, sure, but not, as they say with m96/m97 failures, "catastrophic."
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