Evening all
Really not the first post I wanted to be making on here…!
I bought a 2001 Boxster S earlier in the year. It had been well looked after mechanically, and I spent a couple of months sorting bodywork and a couple of minor bits out. It was also serviced by a specialist in May.
I was due to go to Silverstone festival in August in the Boxster, and I made it as far as my father in laws house…where on his road I got a distinctive ticking/knocking noise. I have only done a few hundred miles in total, if that.
It went into a local specialist (it took some time to get it in and seen), and the summary was…
- 3 bores with distinctive ring marks (piston ring issue?)
- 2 bores with noticeable oil passing (rings?)
- 1 bore showing signs of the start of scoring…suspected going oval causing the piston slap
So, long story short, the only fix suggested was an engine out rebuild.
I feel really torn on this…I would need to budget say £10k to £15k to do the work…though the car isn’t worth anywhere near that, and other than the engine the rest of the car would still be 20+ years old…
Though I really cannot bring myself to get rid as it is, for next to nothing.
I am therefore at a bit of a crossroad, and really unsure what to do…?!
- Someone shared a link to renagade hybrid who seem to sell LS engine conversion kits. Has anyone undertaken a swap successfully and have done it diy? It would likely cost something in the region of the fixing the existing engine, though at the end of it you would have a v8 boxster…so arguably a bit more interesting than just fixing it to as was…
- I guess the other option is whether I look to rebuild myself. Though again not going to be cheap as there seems to be a need for specialist tools, cost of parts, along with a form of lift to get the engine out…
- or do I just get rid and chalk it up.
Does anyone have any thoughts or experience of sorting this type of issue out please, or has indeed stood at these crossroads…?
Thanks in advance
Mark
Really not the first post I wanted to be making on here…!
I bought a 2001 Boxster S earlier in the year. It had been well looked after mechanically, and I spent a couple of months sorting bodywork and a couple of minor bits out. It was also serviced by a specialist in May.
I was due to go to Silverstone festival in August in the Boxster, and I made it as far as my father in laws house…where on his road I got a distinctive ticking/knocking noise. I have only done a few hundred miles in total, if that.
It went into a local specialist (it took some time to get it in and seen), and the summary was…
- 3 bores with distinctive ring marks (piston ring issue?)
- 2 bores with noticeable oil passing (rings?)
- 1 bore showing signs of the start of scoring…suspected going oval causing the piston slap
So, long story short, the only fix suggested was an engine out rebuild.
I feel really torn on this…I would need to budget say £10k to £15k to do the work…though the car isn’t worth anywhere near that, and other than the engine the rest of the car would still be 20+ years old…
Though I really cannot bring myself to get rid as it is, for next to nothing.
I am therefore at a bit of a crossroad, and really unsure what to do…?!
- Someone shared a link to renagade hybrid who seem to sell LS engine conversion kits. Has anyone undertaken a swap successfully and have done it diy? It would likely cost something in the region of the fixing the existing engine, though at the end of it you would have a v8 boxster…so arguably a bit more interesting than just fixing it to as was…
- I guess the other option is whether I look to rebuild myself. Though again not going to be cheap as there seems to be a need for specialist tools, cost of parts, along with a form of lift to get the engine out…
- or do I just get rid and chalk it up.
Does anyone have any thoughts or experience of sorting this type of issue out please, or has indeed stood at these crossroads…?
Thanks in advance
Mark