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Originally Posted by Nerv

Ahh the details:

With this conversion being very involved on the electrical side of things, we have been putting quite a bit of effort in this area early on. It looks like we will be able to retain the OBD of the Audi as well as the emissions systems in hopes of appealing to California Boxster owners.

The main challenge has been having the car behave as though the engine was always intended to be in the car. We now are pretty confident we'll be able to do exactly that. Making adapters that will not involve any Porsche wiring alterations is one of our goals, with the exception of the new engine harness of course.

We'll keep you posted as the car comes together.

Great to get an update! I know there are a bunch of us out there quite interested in what we can do with our cars when (not if) the engine dies. Prefer not to make them boat anchors...

Price point will be key - having a somewhat "turnkey" solution for under $15k is probably what is needed. Remember, these are going into cars (especially the older 2.5's) at are worth about half that - less if the engine is dead. That's always been the hard pill to swallow. Putting an engine in a car that is 2x the price of the car. There is a BEAUTIFUL 2003 with 65k miles on the board for like $16k. That's really your competition. Sell the broken car for $4k and for a net out of pocket of $12k, you have a Boxster S in great shape.

I REALLY want something that will be CA legal, and unfortunately suspect there won't be a way to do this in CA. If it was a pre-1996 (OBD I) car, we likely could (see eRod LS engines). But I can't imagine CA letting this one go without MANY hoops. This is really the ONLY reason I haven't done the Renegade conversion.

That said, i'm in line for mine :-)