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Old 01-05-2016, 01:07 PM   #9
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...Anyway, I am still kind of confused about the people who own Boxsters. The three cars makes I am used to have a huge following of DIY'ers. Threads about rebuilding engines in the basement or garage are common. That doesn't seem to be the case with the 986. I'm not really sure why. The Boxster engine doesn't seem that complicated compared to other engines. Am I missing something? ...
There is probably a lot more inexpensive aftermarket support for the other cars that you have worked on. People do rebuild and upgrade the M96s, but for most of us the economy of doing it does not make sense. Have you priced new rings or rods?

Plenty of DIY stuff going on. It's just a smaller family than Honda-tech.com and has never been moderated and set up in a way to make it easy to see it all.

As the others have said, many of us do maintenance such as brakes and suspension work. Fewer, but still many have changed our own IMS bearing and RMS. The ones that have done a full splitting-the-case rebuild in the home garage are few.

Flaps10 kept us all entertained and informed last year:
http://986forum.com/forums/diy-project-guides/54170-my-diy-engine-rebuild.html

Many of us will long remember the triumph of Gonzojive over the dropped set screw:
http://986forum.com/forums/performance-technical-chat/55481-dropped-set-screw-into-ims-bearing-flange-hole.html

There's been some good V8/LSX threads and posts...

and keeping up with the story of Jcslocum and family is a good DIY journey:
http://986forum.com/forums/general-discussions/59015-1st-boxster-7th-porsche-we-now-have-4-family.html
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