[Brucelee]

Originally Posted by silver arrow

If it was a Subaru motor that had been overboosted I would say to get some Darton sleeves put in the thing and rebuild the bottom end. So why again does everyone buy an entirely new engine for these things? Any reason these things can't just be rebuilt.

As I understand it, Porsche does everything in its power to restrict this kind of action. Not sure how that translates but you rarely find anyone rebuilding these motors (maybe never) or pulling it apart to build a face motor.

The more racing oriented here can chime in on this.