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brief update, i finally got a hold of a tech who does a little business on the side. i went ahead and put the car back on my lift, and this evening he's going to swing by and take a look at it. he did mention the deal to me about the cylinder liners cracking/failing and said that it's fairly common on the 996 motors, and somewhat on the 3.2 S motors. he also mentioned the motor jumping time. he claims that some of the earlier models had issues with the chain guides having to be replaced often, and the tensioners also. basically, his intial speculations are right in line with me and everyone else, and hopefully tomorrow we'll get somewhere with this. by the way, that plug was removed from cyl. 2 (center cylinder on passenger side of motor).
alright, so considering my motor is done, and with the research i've done thus far....is it feasible to install larger cylinder liners in the 3.2 case? so far, i've found that the 3.2 and 3.4 share the same bottom end, just with a larger bore on the liners in the 3.4. i'm thinking maybe run 3.6 liners (i doubt you'd be able to safely bore the 3.2 to 3.6), with some nice head work would be somewhat cost effective in terms of upgrading. it's just a random type of thought.
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