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Porsche9 · 03-02-2014, 05:05 PM

As part of the engine rebuild did they put upgraded Carrera tensioners? The original tensioners are know failure point. Also, make sure the air box has a pop off alve installed. These old SCs can backfire and when they do they blow the air box. Replacement is not cheap and at this point in and where you live will be expensive and take the car off the road untilyou can get one. Beyond these two common issues the SCs are pretty bullet proof. I had one for a number of years and bought and sold it for $17k. This price was for a pristine example with beautiful Petrol Blue color. Wish I still had it.

What was interesting is for a time I had the 944S2 at the same time. The S2 was by far the better car in almost every aspect but to this day if I had to pick one it would the SC.

03-02-2014, 05:05 PM	#53
Porsche9 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Chandler, AZ Posts: 1,796	As part of the engine rebuild did they put upgraded Carrera tensioners? The original tensioners are know failure point. Also, make sure the air box has a pop off alve installed. These old SCs can backfire and when they do they blow the air box. Replacement is not cheap and at this point in and where you live will be expensive and take the car off the road untilyou can get one. Beyond these two common issues the SCs are pretty bullet proof. I had one for a number of years and bought and sold it for $17k. This price was for a pristine example with beautiful Petrol Blue color. Wish I still had it. What was interesting is for a time I had the 944S2 at the same time. The S2 was by far the better car in almost every aspect but to this day if I had to pick one it would the SC. __________________ 03 Carrera 02 Boxster S Guards Red, black interior with matching hardtop 89 Carrera 4 89 944 S2 78 911SC