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Old 08-30-2014, 04:41 PM   #1
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Glad the message was received velorider. Doing so would be analogous to parting out a perfectly working car in order to fix your car. I want this key to go to a good home.
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Old 08-30-2014, 07:36 PM   #2
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Doing so would be analogous to parting out a perfectly working car in order to fix your car.
Oops. Color me guilty.

I looked at a perfectly well running 98 Boxster today with 92K miles and was going to buy it (whole car) so I could rebuild the engine and transmission as backups for racing and was going to have someone else part out the rest of it.

Cheaper and easier to rebuild a running engine than one that has had a failure with expensive/hard to find broken components and a billion bits of steel and aluminum run through every moving part in the oil.
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Oops. Color me guilty.

I looked at a perfectly well running 98 Boxster today with 92K miles and was going to buy it (whole car) so I could rebuild the engine and transmission as backups for racing and was going to have someone else part out the rest of it.

Cheaper and easier to rebuild a running engine than one that has had a failure with expensive/hard to find broken components and a billion bits of steel and aluminum run through every moving part in the oil.
Racing will do that to you!

Granted it was CrapCan racing -- but it was a Porsche (944)

We had no idea where we might be able to find used parts -- so we bought a second car to haul down to our first race! It cost us $10 more than the race car :-)

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