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Originally Posted by Flavor 987S
Did you do leakdown? If so, what were your numbers?
You let Champion do a PPI on an air-cooled car? They know very little about these machines. An indy shop would have been much more knowledgeable.
A leakdown would add about 4 hours to the PPI process. Have the plugs changed too "while you are in there".
You are going to wish you purchased a turbo. And not a cab. The cabs have far less collective value.
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I appreciate the insights.
Champion did a very good PPI and I am satisfied with the detail and intensiveness of it - they have a 30 yr. Porsche Factory trained Tech who they specifically assign to the air-cooled cars. And, I did quite a lot of research prior to chasing this car and directed them to specifically look closely at areas I learned should be of concern.
They did not do a leakdown, but did do compression - all 6 cylinders measured within 3% of each other (this is a 20k mi. car, I wouldn't expect anything different).
Maintenance, such as oil and plug changes, was not possible as this was not yet my car - we hadn't yet negotiated a purchase price, the last thing I was going to do was maintenance on
His car.
I will not ever wish I'd gotten a Turbo. I've owned many turbo cars in my lifetime and probably because of this have come to appreciate the smoothness and linear power delivery of naturally aspirated vehicles. IMHO, Turbos are like the girl you
don't bring home to meet Mom - great fun for a night,... but not for a lifetime.
Again, I definitely wanted a Cab, it's the primary reason I chose this car. If I want to light my hair on fire, I have a couple other toys that'll do that quite nicely. It's not what I'm looking for in this car.
Cheers!