Well, here we go again, probably the last thing I needed now was to get another Boxster, especially one that needs a new motor. I tried really hard to swipe away on fb marketplace but this thing kept coming back and finally I couldn't resist and went to see it. Not that I wanted to buy it at that point, I was just curious to see a 22 year old Boxster with only 22,000 miles on it and it was nearby. The car was in pristine condition, my daily driver Boxster S Tip seemed like a real s**tbox next to it, even though I put quite a lot of work into that in the past two years. The owner tells me the car was a garage queen in the family throughout its whole life, meticulously maintained with all the receipts and everything since day one. The only tiny blemish is, khm, the engine, which one day, after a loud bang, stopped working. At the shop the owner had been told the engine probably suffered a catastrophic engine failure and needs replacing. Since I have a complete S engine in bits stored in boxes in the shed, I quickly convinced myself (and my wife) that I should not pass on this.. The owner was also super nice and we made a deal.
Not sure at this point how long it is going to take to get it back on the road again, hopefully not as long as the Blue Boxster took
http://https://986forum.com/forums/show-tell-gallery/73917-blue-boxster-resurrection-project-10.html, but I thought I'd start a thread about it just to document the progress. Here's a few pictures as a start:
Looks like now that I own another wrecked Porsche I will have to change my lifestyle accordingly.
Yep, that's the correct reading.
Tip got company.
Oil's clean, that's a good sign. All fluids were replaced shortly before the big bang.
