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Old 01-31-2009, 03:21 PM   #1
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3.8L 2001 Boxster S Brand New Motor

3.8L Boxster S with 50k original miles. lapis blue/full leather savanah beige interior/blue top. Brand new 3.8L factory crate motor just installed along with new 7.8 DME. Excellent overall condition.


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Old 02-01-2009, 05:20 AM   #2
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Looks very sweet. I would love to drop a 3.6 or 3.8L into my base boxster some day, but my little 2.7L is running too good.

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Old 02-01-2009, 09:28 AM   #3
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Looks very sweet. I would love to drop a 3.6 or 3.8L into my base boxster some day, but my little 2.7L is running too good.

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Old 02-02-2009, 02:29 PM   #4
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why sell something that obviously cost a pretty penny to put together?

how much hp does this car have? must be a lot!

would it pass CA smog???
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It is just a hobby. Allows me to have some fun doing the tinkering and someone else to get an awesome car at a reasonable price. I don't know what CA laws are but all the smog stuff stuff is present as it would be in a non-converted car and it is running new 987 catted headers so I see no reason why it wouldn't. In fact it should be even lower emissions than the original due to the newer design in cats, the newer air pump system, the returnless fuel system...well you get the idea. So in states that just do tailpipe and OBD type analysis it would be more than fine. In CA the visual inspection would be an issue if you tried to slip it through as a stock car.

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why sell something that obviously cost a pretty penny to put together?

how much hp does this car have? must be a lot!

would it pass CA smog???
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Old 02-03-2009, 08:08 AM   #6
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In California you can put an engine from a different car in your car, but it has to be a newer engine (from a newer model year) or the same year as the car it's going into. For example, you couldn't put an engine from a '98 into an '02 car. So you'll need documentation regarding the engine, which Todd should have. Then you'd need to take the car and the documentation to a "referee" to have it approved. The car would need to have four cats total (OEM for the S) to pass, which it sounds like it only has two. After it's refereed, then you can go get it smogged and finally approved.

Quite honestly, I'd just smog it first to see if it even passes. My shop doesn't even look at the engine when they do smog. Most shops wouldn't know what a stock Boxster engine looks like any way... If I could just pass smog and get it plated as a stock Boxster S I wouldn't worry about the whole referee gig.

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