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Sorry for the long delay in posting an update. To catch up, we got the new car onto the track and had a few teething problems - this should be expected when buying a non-running roller because there is no way to know if any of the engine accessories work or not.

Major symptom was lack of power over 3K rpm. Felt like fuel starvation. Replaced fuel filter (very dirty) and fuel pump as both were from the salvage chassis. This helped things quite a bit but then power became intermittant. Engine would run fine and then stumble and even die. Engine would re-start immediately and then run fine for awhile and then just when it seemed ok, it would stumble and die again.

Everything else checked out ok so the mechanics swapped ECU's (putting the original ECU from my totalled silver Boxster into the Black chassis) and this solved the problem completely. Hard to say why there was a problem with the ECU in the salvage chassis but it wouldn't be the first time that someone sold a rolling chassis and had already swapped out a part or two. Salvage chassis also had a leaky clutch master cylinder that needed replacement.

The car is still street legal (so I can still drive it to/from track) and passed the CA DMV validation inspection last week. The DMV examiner liked the car and wanted to hear more about how it handled on the track than checking to make sure that it had all of the required equipment to remain street legal! With all of the graphics on the car, I drive conservatively on the street as I'm sure it will be a cop magnet.

I haven't had a chance to get to the track the past few weeks (busy getting two son's moved back to their colleges) but I will try to get out as soon as possible and then I'll post up some first observations (and lap time differences) between the Spec and previous street versions.