# 996 Turbo: The Porsche Worth the Risk | with Andy from While You're In There

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Podcast: [Eleven After Nine | A Porsche Culture Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/eleven-after-nine-a-porsche-culture-podcast-7781633)
Published: 2026-06-02T07:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

The 996 Turbo is the most supercar you can buy for sports-car money — and the one a lot of people are still too scared to own. So Derek sat down with Andy from the "While You're In There" Youtube Channel to settle it: is the bargain-Turbo reputation real, or are those coolant pipes a clock you'll regret ignoring? They get into the Mezger engine and why it sidesteps the IMS and bore-scoring drama, what these cars are actually like to drive once they're dialed in, and exactly what to look for before you buy one. Plus a detour into Andy's 987.2 base Boxster — the port-injected 2.9 nobody talks about — and the auction that sold it for nearly double. PLEASE go check out and Subscribe to Andy's youtube Channel ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ► Andy — While You're In There: www.youtube.com/@whileyoureinthere ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 00:00 Meet Andy (While You're In There) 02:03 Why a base Boxster — twice 06:54 The 987.2 secret: the port-injected 2.9 12:48 Selling it: the auction that went 2x 18:32 Enter the 996 Turbo (2001, Forest Green) 21:06 Buying off the internet: cracked wheels & hidden costs 23:28 The coolant pipe problem, explained 26:57 Pin vs. weld 29:11 What it's actually like to drive 35:56 Buying a 996 Turbo: what to look for 41:20 Why the 996 is the underrated one 46:01 What's next for the Turbo + send-off ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ElevenAfterNine ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Website: https://www.ElevenAfterNine.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/TheElevenAfterNine Facebook: ElevenAfterNine Podcast channel: https://youtube.com/@ElevenAfterNinePodcast #Porsche #996Turbo #911Turbo #Mezger #PorscheBoxster #ElevenAfterNine #WhileYoureInThere Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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