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As you will have noted from the two-part tech guide kicking off in last month's issue of and concluding in the magazine you're holding in your hands, my first-generation 997 Carrera 4S has been subjected to the removal of its beating heart. There is a wide variety of reasons you might want to tackle removal of the flat-six from your 911, including the cost-saving associated with sending the engine alone to a specialist for rebuild, as opposed to leaving the complete car in the company's custody and paying for removal and reinstallation of the flat-six on top of the money you're shelling out for remedial work. I'd like to tellperhaps even increasing displacement for good measure, but no. The catalyst for the job was, in fact, a snapped bolt.
