I would agree that the seller either does not have a clear understanding of whats wrong, hasn’t explained it well, or the shop misdiagnosed it. Yes I would have confidence in the shop sleeving it. And I agree, picking it up at a reasonable cost would be worthwhile.
Being active in the Porsche community more and more over the past year. I’ve seen several variations of this topic with the aluminum motors. They’ve shown that trying to save a motor will cost you twice what it would to rebuild a good motor. Better results still appeared to come from getting a good low mileage motor. This is also taking into consideration that there are already sleeves for those Porsche motors and several shops experienced installing them.
From what I’ve observed with the aluminum Porsche motors in this situation, it’s best to not get involved with a damaged motor to that degree unless you have no other options.
Pick it up on a cheap, it would make one bad ass coffee table ;D
What do you plan on putting this engine in?
Oh that works
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Nice car!
Is it the same one the guy was selling on the other forum supposedly with blown motor for really really cheap? I think dealership offered him like $4k for it and he was fishing for best offer over that.
Nope, someone snatched that up real quick for I think 6-7K from NJ. This one is a former car from an AZ member though.
That’s the other nj car. He hydro locked it didn’t he? Thought his name had some vw reference.
yup, NY car, he hit something cause of how low he was, cracked the oil pan pick up tube and spun a couple bearings at a minimum. Oil pan was never cracked or anything so it didn’t show a low oil warning, idk it didn’t give him a low oil pressure warning though.
Literally the fastest colour
…for now
Fastest stock colour is Avus anyway
Fastest all motor colour is Phantom
Fastest street trim is Sprint
Fastest gutted with drag slicks is ??? (What was that apr car?)
Daytona
I feel like picking up a used motor can be just as chancy if you don’t know its history. There are a few over in Europe for sale but if there was ever a problem with it, that would be a nightmare sending it back etc. A member on the east coast just bought one from over there for like 7500 shipped with 40K miles. The other guy from AZ in LI whose motor crapped out, bought a rebuilt one that shit the bed within 1K miles before getting an Audi Reman’d engine. I know of a few motors floating around though. Just exploring my options.
Not sure that’s entirely responsible of you to just post that without context. Some google searcher finds that and there you’ve gone and spread bullshit. You may want to also mention that he had unitronic for 2 years before that, and the exact tune he had on his car has caused absolutely ZERO mechanical failures on anyone else’s car. Just for the record.
Did he change tunes at some point there?
I was not implying that it was any fault of the tune, more so how funny it was that people were trying to blame a tune that was on there for a few miles and not acknowledging that he had the unitronic tune for thousands of miles that would have been a much more likely culprit then one that had been installed on hundreds of cars with no problems. But you are right, out of context that could be misinterpreted. But to keep this on topic about a engine rebuild…
I know, but some noob might not unfortunately. Read your post from the perspective of someone who bought an RS4 last week.
As for keeping it on topic, nobody is doing due dilligence on engine rebuilding. Just JHM. So there’s the on-topic. The first company they brought on board to do the engine rebuilds found they were in over their heads. Someone in the US actually bought a built BHF direct from them I recall. Not sure what happened to them, but JHM found a huge problem in the process, and changed companies. Even then they found problems. They’re in for probably $100,000 or more at this point to produce built motors and even then are revamping the process still. I believe the final process (vs revision 1 or 2) they are following is exclusive to JHM so even buying direct will not be the same. So dicey…I don’t think I’d want to be a trail blazer. Being a trail blazer is expensive, energy sapping, and ultimately leads to unfinished cars that are sold off.
Costs based on ECS tuning prices. Assuming you found someone to sleeve the block.
New rings: $1136 ($142 each piston set)
Upper rod bearings: $280 ($35 each)
Lower rod bearings: $280 ($35 each)
rod bolts: $288 ($18 each)
Main bolts: ?
Thurst washer set: $32
Front Crank seal:$33
Rear Crank Seal: $46
Crank Bearings Upper: $26 each X5? (130)
Crank Bearings Lower: $26 each X5? (130)
Cylinder head bolts: $20 each X 20? (400)
VCG:$40 (20 each)
Cylinder head gaskets: $170 (85 each)
- misc timing components that might be wearing
so assuming you do this your self, you are looking at $3K in parts alone not including sleeving costs and unexpected part repairs.
Based off that you MIGHT be able to do your own rebuild/sleeve fore $7500. Yes ECS is probably not the best place for getting part costs but puts a pretty good perceptive on how much VALUE you are really getting out of a JHM built motor lol.