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Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour
So will you now take the car with the new motor in it to Jake for an IMS bearing swap?
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To agree with CLoudsurfer, it can't be done now according to Jake. I feel like I've dodged a bit of a bullet on this one and consider myself very lucky. As a result I'm going to give pretty strong consideration to selling the car in the next year or so.
Even with what I consider to be a great result for me, this experience has been pretty frustrating. Vendors that won't take or return calls, others that are difficult to deal with, others that are a long way from where I am located and the simple fact of staring into the very real possibility of either a $20k repair/upgrade bill and/or being without the car for almost a year have left me a bit shaken. It's one thing to drop $20k into at $50k car, it's quite another to do it into a $20k car.
There are some highly skilled air cooled Porsche shops pretty local to me so that's a real possibility for a replacement. A non M96 newer 911 or Boxster is also a possibility. I may feel differently in a few weeks once I get the car back and get to drive it some, but that is how I am leaning for now.
If I could reverse gears I would have gotten the IMS work done last fall. I could have, but was trying to schedule a 3.2L - 3.6L upgrade with Jake and wanted to "wait" on the IMS to do it with the 3.6L upgrade. Obviously though I wanted to wait on the 3.6 upgrade (which was tentatively planned for this winter), my IMS didn't want to wait that long.