Another one bites the dust - value??

[Quickurt]

Originally Posted by AddictionRacing

The mechanic is Dan Jacobs LLC (Hairy Dog Grrrage). He's a very well-known indy in the area with a great reputation.

He was able to determine the failure from the noise it was making as well as all the metal in my 1200 mile old oil and filter. He says that the outer coating comes off the ball-bearings and ends up throughout the engine, resulting in failure and the wonderful sound of metal shards destroying expensive (poorly designed) machinery.

I obviously don't have the car handy, but if I recall correctly it was made in May of 1998. Does that sound right?

My current line of thought is to dump it for whatever I can get for it and go for an older, reliable, air-cooled, brutal 911.

Don't think those older 911s are all that much more reliable.
Say this over, several times - Cam chain tensioner, cam chain tensioner, cam chain tensioner....
Then check out the maintenance schedules and see how much they cost. Say - valve adjustment, valve cover gaskets, warped valve covers, cooling fans, etc., etc.

[blinkwatt]

$11k for a 2.5L replacement? That's nuts.

Get on renntech.org and talk to member 'tholyoak'. He has redone a lot of Boxster's engines.

[Tool Pants]

Metal in the oil filter is not good. You first said you had a 1999. Some 1999 engines were sleeved. The engines were made late 1998 (but sold as model year 1999) to early 1999. I think you have a typo in your second message where you say May 1998.

[rick3000]

TP, what is a sleeved engine? Is it good or bad, and is there anyway to figure out if my engine is like that?
Thanks!

[Tool Pants]

http://www.pca.org/tech/tech_qa_question.asp?id={F3EA752A-E838-43E5-A43D-BB4F445F5A8F}

Copy and paste the link to see if it works.

[rick3000]

Thanks for the link, I had no idea that they had done that.

[ChrisZang]

seems like nobody has answered your second question so far "how much is the car worth as a roller"?

Well here's my math:
You probably paid around $20k for the car.
Putting a new engine in will cost around $12k ~ $15k.
So the worth of the car as a roller is probably around $5 ~ $6k (if you find anyone interested), depending on how the car looks and if it has Xenon etc.

That's not much and so IMHO your only way is to "raise" the cash and get a new engine

(P.S.: have a look at the last line in my signature)