Ouch, I hope it's not terminal mate.

That's unlucky mate, I feel for your pain.

Send it to Hartech

Might be worth considering a short engine from Porsche too, think they are available and may save some time if you need the car on the road?

Yes of course you may Jim, but I don't believe that Porsche will supply an engine under their exchange system now where the issues have not been addressed? may get expensive for them if they supply two duff engines for the same car!!

Some of the issues are inherent, like bores going out of round. I also understand that a replacement will be close in age & build to the original, so could still have IMS issues which weren't designed out until 2009. Some of the issues Barry at Hartech has worked on & I guess Porsche wouldn't incorporate into a replacement engine, like flowing the water ways to give better cooling. And yes it has happened even when they were under warranty, the replacement goes bang as well.

Interesting in that they've said Gary's has seized. That is an unusual failure, generally it is IMS collapse or bore scoring.

I don't believe Porsche would sell you a s/exchange motor, with a warranty, fitted with the old style piston rings and dodgy IMS, some of the cooling issues and certainly the bore ovality have been caused by poor maintenance procedures and lube selection and changing intervals......................there are after all many thousands of those engines with several hundreds of thousand of miles with perfect bores? Think Gary said ceased rather than seized?

Jim, I am not going to get into a debate with you over this, I simply don't have the time nor the inclination! Just on the oval bores, you are I am afraid talking drivel, the incidence of oval bores is, of course, a concern for the owners of those cars afflicted, but as I said earlier there are thousands of those engines with very high mileages that have perfectly round bores, and again some around 50 thousand miles with oval ones!...............................design fault???