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  • Rebuilding my Porsche 911 M97.01 engine – Pt2

    Rebuilding my Porsche 911 M97.01 engine – Pt2

    On the last installment, I left you hanging with the next visit – the machinist. I took my poorly crank case halves to Jonathan at Stanwood Engineering. I took the recommendation from Duncan at Westwood Liners, as he had his hillclimb Cayman 3.9 competition engine built there. Immediately, I felt like I was in good

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  • Rebuilding my Porsche 911 M97.01 engine – Pt1

    Rebuilding my Porsche 911 M97.01 engine – Pt1

    Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. My engine had previously been rebuilt by a reputable firm to solve the “common” bore scoring issue seen by a small proportion of 3.8 litre M97.01 engines. Fast forward a few years, and I start getting exhaust gases into the coolant expansion tank. Nothing really

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  • Brian Duffy – Web Edition

    Brian Duffy – Web Edition

    How the mighty have fallen. Once upon a time, I was an expert and wizard at hosting things on the internet. Now I’m back to the humble beginnings of accidentally deleting the production database for my personal blog. Well sort of, I am just too lazy to restore a backup, which brings me to the

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