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YOUR RESEARCH2002 996 Engine
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Replace 3.4 l engine
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My 3.4 L engine was replaced with remanufactured engine after 57K miles 2001 996.
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Rather than a 40 hour head gasket repair, I bought a new one for $8500 and paid about $1500 to a local mechanic in Va Beach who knows his Porsches for the install.
Leading evidence: 'Replace 3.4 l engine' (no explicit attributable resolution; this is a reported action or suggestion). Across 1 matching discussions, The most frequently discussed action is 'Repair i bought a new one' (1 discussions). For that action, 0 discussions report a resolution and 0 report an unsuccessful attempt. No action has an explicit, attributable resolution report under the current rules. These are forum reports and suggestions, not a confirmed diagnosis.
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Drive the car, get the oil changed, enjoy the heck out of it.
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Rather than a 40 hour head gasket repair, I bought a new one for $8500 and paid about $1500 to a local mechanic in Va Beach who knows his Porsches for the install.
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Had a couple of coolant changes (don't believe in that life time coolant thing).
Replace oil (mobil 1 02-40) and filter every 5000 miles
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I change oil (Mobil 1 02-40) and filter every 5000 miles.
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Repair i bought a new one
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Rather than a 40 hour head gasket repair, I bought a new one for $8500 and paid about $1500 to a local mechanic in Va Beach who knows his Porsches for the install.
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39K?.....by my experience, it's just about ready to go.
Sorry.
And oh.....it will be the left bank timing chain......that will bend your rods and pretty well chew things up.
My '02 Boxster w/2.7l engine is going on 182,000+ miles (and on original clutch). I change oil (Mobil 1 02-40) and filter every 5000 miles. Had a couple of coolant changes (don't believe in that life time coolant thing).
Other services at schedued intervals or more frequent, though a few things have gone a bit longer than I would like: Overdue on new plugs. Overdue on tranny/diff fluid change. These will happen later March when I plan on leaving car with dealership service department for a few weeks for these services (while I'm traveling overseas). If I don't travel, I'll just drop car off for a couple of days.
Just take care of things, don't let engine overheat (cooling system integrity is critical on modern engines!) and drive it every day!
Sincerely,
Macster.
i had a boxster for a bit, it had 180,000 kms on it (so like..130,000miles? maybe more?). It had clearly been driven hard and riced out with tacky stickon trim pieces by its previous owner but the motor was strong. Clutch not so much.
My 996 is at 50,000kms and climbing with some good hard track kms on her. I'm going to try to set the record for highest KM 996
Correct......'hard' often has little to do with it.
I take good car of the cars....all get attention before neccesary.........this car is my wife's drive, never tracked.
So typically, when these engines go out like this....are they repairable? or you have to repalce the whole thing?
What can I do to prevent this? maybe some maintenance checks? like what?
The M96 engine/driveline was never really designed to be mod-friendly or rebuild friendly......ie you don't see replacable pistons & cylinders, and gearboxes really have no servicable internal components (bearings, gears, shafts).
There is an upside to this.
A good 'rebuild' (that
may be
new) comes with many improved 997 components......and can go in your car for under $10K.
If the engine was GT1 based (Turbo, GT2, GT3, etc) the cost would
at least
double that.
I think we all like to scare ourselves to death. These engines are made to last. There are some that don't though. You find that in any car. The more miles the more the risk, nothing lasts forever. My 1999 C2 is now up to 95,000. Am I worried the engine will blow, sure, but do I lose sleep about it, no. I do my service and drive the car like it was meant to be driven. In my book a Porsche with 39,000 miles is still new.
Nazhat - please do a search for this kind of stuff. MANY THREADS on this topic discussed to death. Please consider that if everyone who did not have a problem chimed in it would FAR exceed those who have had issues (and they will ALWAYS reply to these threads and they are understandably upset often times). Drive the car, get the oil changed, enjoy the heck out of it. You have an 02 with the 3.6l which I "think" has had less problems than the 3.4l cars reported.
My 3.4 L engine was replaced with remanufactured engine after 57K miles 2001 996. Oil was getting into the coolant big time. We tried a couple of inexpensive fixes without success. Rather than a 40 hour head gasket repair, I bought a new one for $8500 and paid about $1500 to a local mechanic in Va Beach who knows his Porsches for the install. Engine is awesome with significant upgrades from the original.
