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Originally Posted by Flavor 987S
Really, only $21,000ish? Gawd, I hope my 2006 987S blows up Friday for my next planned drive. I thought it was much more than that. I'll have her on a covered carrier heading southeast by Monday morning.
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Just finished a 4.0 for a 987. The first pull on the dyno before any tuning was done was 305HP and the torque was 285. Thats with everything stock except the mufflers. Now comes the optimization.
Beware updating to a OEM larger engine has conversion complications and the 3.6 996 spec engines are among the most failure prone that we see. Losing cylinders due to scoring is real, even at 27K miles like this one. Its worse with the later engines that have OEM forged pistons due to expansion differences that someone forgot to account for.
All those engines are also of the era of the single row IMSB which is the worst of the worst. The 996 spec engine is not special, it shares most every problem that the Boxster has and even has a few of it's own. Make sure that you spend the required money to dodge the issues as much as possible. As you have learned, this game can be a hard one to play.