Remember me to Andy. My wheels then were a big fat red M3 V8 normally aspirated jobbie.

 

Hurrah..
Chris - why not just refresh the thrust washers, and other niggly stuff, even the camshaft itself?. The block will make 200k plus, surely. That said, I'm sure you'd sell it to pay for a newer block. Still...
There are a handful of yanks on 300k miles , 1 over 400k, I shit you not. Difficult to verify BS from over the pond, but it's been discussed in recent years on the yank side of the site. I snoop occasionally.
The strength of the F20 is certainly not dissimilar to the H22a - friend of mine on here had 220k on that same engine , 60k hard track miles (Barry - Detailer). The bulkhead gave up before the engine had chance to.
I think the engine bingo lark is probably to do with poor ownership and lacking care on oil top ups - I'm sure yours is pampered.
Good luck - you've probably overall made the right choice.
I was at a car meet on Sunday yesterday, got up close to a white 981 there. Bizarrely it was parked next to a 67 reg 911 Turbo S, which was simply evil looking in Basalt Black, and made the Boxster look rather tame in comparison. The owner of the 981 said it had a recall on subframe bushes, costing 4k recently. Fortunately he got that paid for , only for it being a low miler. Alarming cost, considering it's a 25k sports car.

 

Naturally aspirated, naturally.

Right choice, agreed.

 

Yeh I might do. I'll pull the head and measure the bores before deciding which route I go. There is some piston slap when cold, which does my engineering OCD no favours at all. That might be the bores just starting to wear. If I can bore and hone to accept OEM oversized pistons, that could be an option. And I'd do bearings, pumps, chains etc as well. A new block and rebuilt head, plus selling the old engine as a good one could turn out to be good value if I'm going that far anyway.

 

ITBs, addictive sound.

 

Hope so! It's sounds good with a CAI, so hopefully even better with ITBs!

 

I hope the engine build goes well.
I'm sceptical of these, only for the fact of factory tolerance perfection being key to the extreme abuse these engines can take. No single man can replicate it once sleeves go in / bottom end / the stuff that takes the most stress. In the last 16 years on the ATR forum and this one, witnessed plenty that have gone tits up on H22s and F20's.
Best bet is getting a new one from Honda / warranted from Spoon. I'd sleep better if I were you then.
Or chop yours in for a low miles 07/08/09?