Where are all the blown up boxsters ?

[papasmurf]

putting a raby rebuilt/upgraded engine in a rolling chassis is probably going to exceed your 15k budget. Some people say you can pick up a boxster with a blown engine for 3-4k but I have not seen them myself and I would rather part mine out than sell it like that. You can find 97-99 models pretty frequently in the 80-120k mile range from 7k on up. I would possibly take my chances with one of these and save the extra money for what happens down the road. The raby engines I am sure are very, very good but the warranty I think is only 1 year or two at the most. I am sure you would probably not have any problems with a set up from him but I would not expect it to be like buying a new car with a 4yr 60k mile warranty or something like that.

[mikefocke]

Rolling car $5k
Raby 'cpo' $8k
Installation $2k

At the end you have a 10 year old car with a tested engine that has perhaps 5 of the major failure causes addressed but not the other 16 or so. And little or no warranty...though I'll bet Jake would try and work out something to try and help you. But since the engine isn't one of his total rebuilds, he isn't warrantying it like one, or pricing it like one.

There can be other failures that take down the car. You haven't done anything to the clutch in this scenario and the trans and suspension are old.

The more assurance/warranty you want, the more you pay. The more risk you assume yourself, the less you pay initially. And sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.