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Originally Posted by Jake Raby
Thank you.
Anyone who has been around these cars for more than a decade remembers when there were no options. Most people here on this forum don't remember those days.
Nothing worse than a problem that has no solution.
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I certainly do. the first I heard about Jake, I drove up there, saw what he was doing and bought an engine he hadn't built yet. I'm still driving it. Best thing that ever happened for M96 owners. Porsche was shipping engines back and forth to
Gemany every day from all over the place, and there were no other choices if your engine failed. If under warrantly or f you bought new and weren't too far past 50k they might help you out as a good will gesture and you had a 996 with an 80k sticker. Not many Boxsters were fixed as good will gestures. I had two before the one I have now, a 2000 996 and a 97 986. Luckily I got rid of the first two before I lost an engine, but the odds would have caught up to me eventually. Now I worry less about the 01 Boxster than my wife's Lexus.
Plus I have a 3.6 Boxster that can run with most anything I have the nerve to stay up with. The only thing I regret is not using one with traction control. The other two both had it. This one has no nannies, other that ABS. Good thing the engine is in the right spot is all i can say.
Hats off to you Jake, and Charles as well. I hope the twp of you get rich enough to be named Max Hoffman! You would most certainly have made Mr. Ludvigsen's books if he was still writing them. Well, maybe not. He was pretty close to the Porsche family.
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