My Porsche journey is becoming very painful.
In 2009 I bought a 944 turbo which blew up after one week of ownership. A loose washer went through the turbo end engine. This car is still not up and running.
In 2016 I bought a 2.5 Boxster, thinking this would become the next cheap racing class in Norway. This has not happened and nobody runs Boxsters over here. I lost some motivation and the build dragged out, but finally finished the car this year (2023) only for the engine to blow up after three laps. When I decided to go the 2.5 Boxster route engines were readily available. I was shocked to see what they go for today, and that's for engines in unknown condition.
At this point I need to weigh my options. I'm too old to spend all my time alone in the garage and not be driving:
- Find a reliable way to go from 90/10 wrenching to 90/10 driving
- Find another, cheaper car to run on track with cheaper more available engines. That way a failure won't lead to an existential crisis.
- Begin with skydiving to get my fix of adrenalin. And sell the car in bits and buy another more reliable car/ one with more available and more reasonable spare engines. Difficult sell, since no one races Boxsters here.
#1 is my preferred option:
How do you guys achieve something closer to this. I'm sick of having to worry all the time, is this even remotely possible? I'm willing to spend money on a solution if it gives me peace of mind, but at this point I feel like achieving good reliability with the m96 is impossible. Do you guys who race these see engine blow-ups regularly?