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YOUR RESEARCHAnother 997 3.8S engine shot!!!
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Wonder if it was run with the hole in it, problem is the oil drained out.
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Wonder if it was run with the hole in it, problem is the oil drained out.
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While looking for a new engine for my 996 I found this on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/06-Po...mZ380065851266
Got a kick out of it, Really "SHOT" but what is a little bullet hole. Maybe some sculp-metal and it could be patched. Wonder if it was run with the hole in it, problem is the oil drained out.
If you look at the picture from the flywheel side, I can see the IMS cover is missing. There is more wrong then just a hole in the case.
Rick
99 996C4
87 944S
I loved that almost casual remark....."small bullet hole"....almost like a description of something that's a common occurence like the front spoiler slightly scraped a concrete block in a parking lot. What the hell, this sort of thing happens every day doesn't it? Wonder what the rest of the car looks like? Probably see it on one of the Police Wild Video segments....being chased down by DEA in a running gun battle.
Let me ask you a question...hypothetical of course.....but if YOU were driving that car and someone was shooting at you...would you drive the $hit out of that car as fast as you could to get as far away as possible? In that case, and considering the location of the bullet hole, it would be logical to assume that the oil took the path of least resistance....wonder how hot that engine got? Of course there is another possible scenario....and that is that the other shots found the driver and the car didn't go anywhere.
Also looks like the bottom of the sump area hit "bottom" somewhere?? I wouldn't touch this motor as Rick said the IMS plate is also missing. Could point to a complete motor seize caused by no oil/lubrication??
demosan
Years ago, I worked at the home office of an insurance company as a multi-line personal underwriter. In short, I was one of the guys who accepted/denied/cancelled policies.
One of the underwriters put an auto policy up for non-renewal because the body shop that was doing repairs under the policy reported that the damage was done during a shootout....unreported to the police. The underwriter, who was a little theatrical anyway, then went through a month of fear when he found out that the policy belonged to a local crime boss. Convinced that he was going to be visited by thugs at night, he asked the agent how the guy was taking it. The answer was, he didn't care much. He ended up going from one insurance company to the next, being cancelled over time for one reason or another--always finding a new company who'd write some sort of policy for him.
Maybe for some people, "small bullet holes" are less of an unusual event.
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