Who doesn't love a mollycoddled 911?
There are certain triggers in adverts that just say to me, as a prospective buyer, ‘this person’s a proper person’. Stuart’s 996 advert has many such triggers, but the standout of these is the picture of his car’s second set of wheels, which are fitted with a set of winter tyres, sitting in the garage swaddled in their bespoke blankets. That alone shouts that Stuart is a detail man. And, having spoken to him, I can confirm that he is.
After a long search, he settled on this 2001 996 as the best, but, as a self-confessed OCD sufferer, this was never going to be a simple case of buy it and run it. Stuart set about a programme of titivating and fettling that, he reckons, has cost him in the region of £16,000 over his tenure. At times like this, it’s easy to brush over things like the IMS bearing assuming everyone knows what it does. But for those who don’t, the IMS bearing was one of Porsche’s more stupid ideas. There was nothing new about an intermediate shaft driving the valve train at either side of a flat-six, but the ball-raced bearing that supports the shaft at the gearbox end of the engine was new for the water-cooled generation of M96 engine.
There’s no guarantee on how long the IMS bearing will last. The general consensus is around 90,000 miles on average, but some have been known to fail at less than 10,000 miles, while others have gone on to do 200,000 miles without issue. But the point here is, Stuart’s replaced this car’s IMS at 78,829 miles, so it should be safe for a while yet. He’s also refreshed the suspension, which includes new shocks, top mounts, control arms and anti-roll bar bushes and drop links.
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