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2012 Mercedes Benz C250 – Engine Top-End Rebuild

The engine in this car was originally designed for the C-Coupe from the early 2000s. That was a port-injected, naturally aspirated affair. Now they’ve bolted on a vacuum pump to one cam, a high pressure fuel pump to the other cam, beefed up the timing chain to more than twice its original strength, and put a turbo on it.

2013 Porsche Boxster S Anthracite Brown Beauty

Just in for scheduled maintenance, there’s nothing wrong with this car, in any way, shape or form. New Pirellis will be installed before she leaves our shop.

I love this Anthracite Brown. Not to be a hater, but Porsche’s Cognac Brown is a bit much, like blackstrap molasses when you could have used Vermont maple syrup.

1970 Porsche 914-6

Porsche billed this car as a two-seater, but it’s more of a 1+1. The passenger seat is barely a real seat.

Production of this flat-6 version was limited to somewhere between 2800 to 3500; there are differing versions according to available Porsche numbers and unofficial sources. Either way, there aren’t many of them now, anywhere.

Audi CAEB 2.0T Cylinder Head Rebuild

A tired-ish engine with over 100,000 miles can be rejuvenated to rise again for another 100k run.

There was nothing physically wrong with this head, but a few valves would not seal adequately due to the carbon buildup that is inevitable with direct-injection gas engines.