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[ScottyB]

Are these just total pieces of shit or what's the deal here?

kind of, mostly the non-S ones, and especially the early ones (pre-00). i want one of these too...done a lot of research on them over the last few years. bottom line is the older you go back in the boxster line the riskier they are.

Intermediate Shaft (IMS) bearing likes to fail and takess out the engine. its a crap bearing design from the early days of Porsche contracting Toyota to show them how to mass produce watercooled stuff cheaply for the next gen cars.
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cliffs
"Either the bearing will wear down to the point where it disintegrates or the central stud will snap. If the stud snaps off there's a chance that the IMS will stay in place and not cause any damage, however if the bearing disintegrates the IMS is pretty much guaranteed to fall out of place. If the IMS does fall out of place, the timing chains skip timing. From there, pistons hit valves and can swiftly destroy the heads, cylinder walls and other things that one wouldn't want to pay for replacing. After a failure, a rebuild or replacement is the only option."

other fun jobs:
- air oil seperators like to fail, $$$
- top fails, $$$
- if you're doing the IMS you should do the rear main seal anyway, more $$$
- early engines would sometimes lose chunks of the cylinder walls. google image search "boxster D chunk"

no fun cheap swap options yet for when it does blow up