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[MikenOH]

should be a 4 digit number on the driver side door sticker (near the door bottom).
original or replacement motor?

Originally Posted by MikenOH

should be a 4 digit number on the driver side door sticker (near the door bottom).
original or replacement motor?

MikenOH will the number tell me if it is an original or replacement? If not I have no way of knowing. The original dealer that leased the car is no longer in business and the other dealers that I could track down, that serviced the car, don't show anything major happening to the car. As you know CarFax does not list independent mechanics or what they did they just list a service being done. I'll check the number later today and post.
Update- 06/98 in Finland.

[MikenOH]

IIRC, the only way you can tell if it's a replacement motor is that there is something on the serial number to ID it as such. Other on the board may know what that is.

I only mention it since there was a range of engines on the '99' model ( I used to have one) that were produced with "pushed in" cylinder sleeves, because of a casting problem with the supplier of the blocks at that time.

Essentially, because of a shortage of good blocks, they had to take rejects and machine them to take a regular cylinder liner that was pressed in instead of the cast process that was being used. A number of engines with the pressed in liners failed because the liners started to move around after a while, causing an engine failure.

The cars affected were produced somewhere in a 10/98--3/99 time frame. If you have a June car, the odds are probably good it wasn't affected and has the original motor.

[jmatta]

If I remember, the engines with the slipped sleeve problems failed quite early in the car's life...at 74k miles, it surely would have failed a long time ago (Jake can tell the tale better than I can repeat it).

The IMS update is well worth the money...I'm saving up for mine as it sleeps over the winter. I'd like to find someone local to the Chicago market to do the work next spring; I wish my Indy P-car tuner was interested.

7400 or 74000 it doesn't matter to me, I bought my Porsche to drive not to sit it in a garage and obsess about IMS, RMS or PMS. My Box sits outside in a covered parking spot and when it rains it gets wet and I drive it in the rain, to the market, to the track and on back country twisty roads. The only special treatment it will get this winter is a beefier suspension and a better intake and exhaust system so it's track ready come spring. If you buy a high performance car and drive it the way it was built to drive things will wear out and break. If the engine blows maybe I'll make it into a spec car for the track and look around for someone's garage queen to buy at a good price and thank them for keeping the mileage down and in pristine condition until I came along.