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Originally Posted by Perfectlap
How much is the RUF upgrade?
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At this rate I may never know. I've been calling RUF on and off since Monday and have been unable to get a live person on the phone. I've left a message and no one has called me back. Someone maybe out of town or something (what I'm hoping/assuming) as it is a little disconcerting to always get an automated system.
I did find out the Porsche dealership in Cincinnati has done/will do a 3.6L swap with a Porsche crate motor into my car. Not cheap, but quite possibly no worse than what RUF will charge and it's nice to at least have that option. It would carry a 2 year warranty from Porsche and I'd plan to do an IMS upgrade with the crate motor before the 2 years ran out. The other nice thing about that option is turn around time. It could be done in as little as 3 weeks for the 3.6, a 3.2L crate swap can be done in less than 2 weeks from order to install. That timing isn't crucial as I have another car I can drive while the Boxster is down, but since convertible weather is really only consistently good from April - September/Oct in this area of the country the thought of losing most/all of it for 2010 is a little disheartening.
I hope to collect a little data on the costs involved in all the options to post here as a reference to others. Obviously you could never hold any of these outfits to what they quote me, but it may help someone else with some ballpark figures.