by Admin | Feb 24, 2014 | Porsche
This Porsche Boxster had leaking front struts at just over 100,000 miles. We removed the struts and replaced them with Bilstein heavy duty units. Another option that costs a little more money but is a nice improvement is the Bilstein pss10 kit. It...
by Admin | Feb 21, 2014 | Porsche
DART auto has its roots in Porsche racing. Owner Dave Banazek left his work in commercial real estate to pursue his passion for cars and racing Porsches in particular. While the business has evolved and we do a lot more work on cars that are used for day...
by Admin | Feb 11, 2014 | Porsche
We have now done several rebuilds on the 996 and 986 engines. All of the engines we have rebuilt have had failed intermediate shaft bearings. Some years ago we saw an early engine with the D chunk cylinder wall failure, but that customer elected not to...
by Admin | Dec 9, 2013 | Porsche
This Cayenne came in to us with a customer concern about smoke coming out of the tailpipes at about 100,000 miles. An inspection of the tailpipes confirmed oily residue, further inspection of the turbo boost pipes showed liquid oil in the turbo pipes, a...
by Admin | Dec 9, 2013 | Porsche
The Porsche 911 turbo can be optioned with awesome ceramic brakes. Saving several pounds each and offering exceptional stopping ability they are really an engineering achievement. They do have some drawback though. In this case the customer had taken...
by Admin | Oct 29, 2013 | Porsche
This engine had the classic intermediate shaft bearing failure. I have not seen and actual data on the failure rate of these bearings but many sources estimate it to be about 1%. When this bearing fails there is typically a loud banging noise coming from...
