I've just bought some poverty Pork…

[ATM]

ooid said:

ATM said:

If the guy knew anything about these cars he'd mention some recent work surely. It looks lower than standard to me. What do you boys reckon?

Too many miles imho, if the engine did not have a refresh. I sold mine less than that last year (nearly 70k mileage).

I hate to say it but ... i think yours went a bit too cheap. How long did it take to sell?

[ooid]

Probably, even though it was early summer it took two months. I finally gave it to Wbac just a few hundred less than 5 grand If i remember correctly? Its just too many of them

[2Btoo]

ooid said:

ATM said:

If the guy knew anything about these cars he'd mention some recent work surely. It looks lower than standard to me. What do you boys reckon?

Too many miles imho, if the engine did not have a refresh. I sold mine less than that last year (nearly 70k mileage).

Interesting comment. How do these things cope with bigger miles when looked after? My old 944 is currently showing just over 200k and still shows more than the stock BHP on a dyno. Will a Box/Cayman 2.5/2.7/3.2 not do as well?

[edc]

119k on my current 986 and it is pretty spot on the money on a Dyno.

[miles2018]

anonymous said:

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Ah yes, the book of lies

Give me a stack of bills over some ink stamps any day of the week!

[snotrag]

2Btoo said:

Interesting comment. How do these things cope with bigger miles when looked after? My old 944 is currently showing just over 200k and still shows more than the stock BHP on a dyno. Will a Box/Cayman 2.5/2.7/3.2 not do as well?

I dont have any figures but my 135k-ish 2002 2.7 swings round to the limiter with vigour every time I take it out, no issues at all.

[Plate spinner]

Plenty on the USA forums running 200k miles.

[Chris Stott]

My Indy commented on how 'nippy' my 996.1 was when it was in for a new exhaust last year - it's on 169k.

Still pulls hard, well in to license losing territory.

[Rosewood Red]

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Slighty sketchy history and tyres aside, 56k mile 2.5 for £5.5k. I'd say spartan spec - no A/C, but has extended leather and soudpack. Nice colour combo. And the MOT history seems reasonable enough - the blown headlight bulb seems to have been rectified

[ooid]

Picture 51. It is overheating a bit much? Stage 1 Fans are not working or worse...

[ooid]

Actually, stage 2 should be active at that point before hitting the line between 80 & 120. I think it does look overheating. Last time mine was at this degree, it had a water pump failure and later engine rebuild due to intermix. I would double check the cooling system, if its only stage 1 fans, it's really a nippy car.

[edc]

I was under the understanding that if the resistors fail then you go straight to the noisy stage 2 high speed fans.

[edc]

So you won't overheat as a resistor failure doesn't lose you any cooling capability.

[skinny]

edc said:

I was under the understanding that if the resistors fail then you go straight to the noisy stage 2 high speed fans.

If they've gone then you don't get anything when its supposed to be stage 1, fans do go to stage 2 but only at stage 2 temperature.
Personally I'd prefer it to come on stage 2 speed at stage 1 temp but you need to do a hack for that

[ooid]

edc said:

So you won't overheat as a resistor failure doesn't lose you any cooling capability.

Short-time yes, but longer-term it would. Especially if its used in heavy traffic. The cooling parts such as water pump, oil cooler and heas gaskets are not designed to handle running on high temperature continously.

Loads of boxsters had engine intermix, due to cracked head as they were running higher than they are supposed to.

[ooid]

skinny said:

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Personally I'd prefer it to come on stage 2 speed at stage 1 temp but you need to do a hack for that

Yup you can. My indy did this by playing with ECU (no idea how). I have bought used 996 cooling fans with resistors and he tweaked ECU. Stage 1 fans were coming really early so the needle did not go above 80 at all. Super useful DIY solution

[bgunn]

A 2.5 with its thick bores will probably suffer less than a 3.4 (or worse a 3.6 with the high side loads imposed on the bores and piston skirts).

I wouldn't want to rely on my oil coping with the high temps though, the oil cooling is dependant upon a decent temp differential between the oil and the coolant it dumps heat into.

As a rule, it makes a lot of sense to fix the resistors, or just bypass them with a solid wire if you want full speed fans all the time - including with the a/c on.

[CzechItOut]

There was a 996 C4S Cat C on Autotrader a few weeks ago for around £13k, by far the cheapest C4S I've ever seen. It's gone now. I wonder if anyone was tempted?

[Rosewood Red]

An easy way to check if stage 1 works and your resistors aren't kaput - turn the A/C on (snowflake symbol) and both fans should come on at low speed.

This only woks on cars with A/C, so not much use on the car I posted. Durametric or PIWIS, etc can test this.

[Bullet-Proof_Biscuit]

Rosewood Red said:

Spotted this parked in a residents only area in Bayswater Saturday night on my way back from a night out.

DSC_0155 by ash_ashy_mo, on Flickr

It was still there the next day

Edited by Rosewood Red on Monday 26th March 22:24

I walked past this after I got lucky a few Fridays ago!

Those houses have about 7 storeys and no bloody lift!

lol..