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Hi and thanks to everybody for the kind words.
Very funny silver_S, I might take U on your word and move in on U, but then again, I might not, as I am an avid X-country skier, so I look forward to the snow season that is coming up over here.
And yes PJG, missing bolts and screws were one of my big headache´s, causing a few delays, but I ordered some extra's with my many orders (about 3 weeks from P...lican) and got some locally, and it all came together with a few to spare in the end :-)

trimer, the plastic cower is not my idea (I which), it is known on the Cayman´s, just check Planet-9. But I don’t know anyone else to do it DIY, they are about $ 1000, but mine came to about $ 500 in materials (plastic and edge-liners)…..I used double layer lexan with different layer thickness (4 and 5 mm) for sound isolation (that is my idea), known method in sound glass in houses. The engine is not to loud, although I would change to the original and original “blanket” on top, before traveling long distance with DQ in the car. And I don’t think it will be legal for racing….but it surely is a head turner, much more than all my efforts on the rest and almost takes the car into super sports car league…

To make a long story short, I have now ridden the engine though the first oil change, but not without issues. As much as I wish I could tell you that starting up was all “hunky dory”, it was not the case.
After turning the engine around for a while without the fuel pump rely in place to make sure the heads were primed and oil was flowing, it started with a blinking CEL. I almost shi*** in my pants and turned it off and I can tell U my gut hurt more then when I broke a window in my youth. I read the codes on my Durametric and it proved that somehow, one of the O2 sensor was not plugged in properly. On second attempt it came on alright without issues.

But then after a while, I got real low (-0.75) Rkat-readings on one bank and high Rkat´s (+0,20) on the other, so I assumed that I had somehow screwed up moving the externals over and gotten a vacuum leak. After a few attempt´s and a lot of head scratching, I found a plastic tube at the very bottom of everything that was broken. It connects to the change-over valve and I probably broke it when I was fighting to get the shifting cables in place, under the intake manifold. It was an old post by Bar10dah on this Forum that got me on the right track for this one……...This Forum and all the old posts on here prove to be invaluable again and again……The car is running fine now and I am using dry warm days to run it in, always with a BIG smile on my face. I even ride with the top down some of the time, you just need a few degrees over zero celsius to ride topless if U turn on the heat and were a cap…..
I still want to get all the injector balanced/cleaned, I somehow did not find time to do that in the process, as stupid as that might be. But I will probably have to send them to RC-eng in the US for that.
To be honest, I can’t really feel the difference in power so far. But now I have an engine with some of the 21(or is it 23) failure mods addressed and I will get it dyno'd when it is ready. I did the 997 plenum, desnorkel, 74 mm TB and headers on the old engine and think it was about 285 HP (it did 0-62 in 5,2 sec) but I have not really been pressing the new engine so far……First I have a ski season to enjoy, but U guys will be the first to hear of my 0-62´s when the car is ready and there is a good day with hot enough tarmac over here for a decent “go for it”…..