What did you do with/to your Boxster today?

[78F350]

I had a fun day at Rallycross with my '04 parts car and met up with Andre to hand off parts to fix his 'engine fire' 2001 car.



It ran great the whole day with a few advisory lights for known reasons and parts uninstalled. I'm not quite sure what to do with this one next. Maybe find a salvage car to part it into.

[Homeoboxter]

Originally Posted by 78F350

I had a fun day at Rallycross with my '04 parts car and met up with Andre to hand off parts to fix his 'engine fire' 2001 car.



It ran great the whole day with a few advisory lights for known reasons and parts uninstalled. I'm not quite sure what to do with this one next. Maybe find a salvage car to part it into.

Looks fun! How`s the Terrible 99?

[Homeoboxter]

I replaced the seal in the differential because it was leaking. It was easier than I thought it would be.





Also, I rebuilt these guys. All boots were shot so I had to wash out all the old grease and dirt in gasoline, hence the newish appearance.

[78F350]

Originally Posted by Homeoboxter

Looks fun! How`s the Terrible 99?

Great job on the axles and seal.

The '99 is still terrible. I put a good top on it, fixed damaged PS tubing, and cleaned it up a bit. The big disappointment that I didn't document yet is that it has some serious rust under the battery tray. Not something I usually look for. Still deciding if i want to restore it or strip it. ...parts from the '04 could make it nice again, but that's a lot of labor.

[dbear61]

Not today, but over the past 16 days, I went with a friend from 6th grade (51 years ago) and another couple in another car (friends from 40 years ago) went on an epic Route 66 trip. We stayed almost exclusively off the interstate whenever the highway could be driven without dead-ends, probably 95% of the non-Interstate route that still exists.

Car museums, historical museums, old diners, motels, gas stations, scenic detours, twisty roads thrown in, all family restaurants. Over 5,400 miles driving the route and coming home. 2001S now has over 164,000 miles on it,

DBear

[stagewex]

Over the weekend I drove down to Atlantic City (151 miles) for a quickie Convention/business meeting. Staying at the Hard Rock which was very nice especially after the Seminole Nation took it over and refurbed everything. Prior it was the Trump Taj Mahal and pretty much disgusting before abandoned and chained closed.
Took a side trip on the way home to visit "Lucy the Elephant" up the road 5-6 miles to Margate, NJ. as a roadside anomaly. Something to see up close. During the Pandemic they rented it as an Airbnb.

Silver Bullet is looking dapper at the hotel check-in after 3 hours/151 miles straight-shot, top down and speeds of 100+ more than a few times. Of course that wasn't because I was driving a Porsche... it was because I was in NJ and everyone was driving 100+mph:



Lucy, been here since the early 1900's but has been rebuilt a few times. See the window in the upper front leg. Yes you can go/climb into it:


You could definitely fit a few Boxsters inside:

[BruceH]

Originally Posted by dbear61

Not today, but over the past 16 days, I went with a friend from 6th grade (51 years ago) and another couple in another car (friends from 40 years ago) went on an epic Route 66 trip. We stayed almost exclusively off the interstate whenever the highway could be driven without dead-ends, probably 95% of the non-Interstate route that still exists.

Car museums, historical museums, old diners, motels, gas stations, scenic detours, twisty roads thrown in, all family restaurants. Over 5,400 miles driving the route and coming home. 2001S now has over 164,000 miles on it,

DBear

What a great trip!

[fridsten]

They finally made one that fits the 986/996. And I have the first one!!!


Before the summer I saw one of their head units in a 997 and talked to the owner. It looked stock and was way cheaper than the PCCM+. So I got in touch with one of the sellers on Aliexpress.
They said they were working on a 986/996 version but had run into some problems, so they could use an original Porsche unit in order to get the dimensions perfect. I had already replaced mine with an Android unit, so I shipped my PCM1 to China. In return I got one of their new head units as well as my old one back.

It has a 7" 1024x600 pixel displa and physical buttons. They used the same buttons as they already had on the 987/997 version. It might have been nicer if they had replaced them with round/oval, gloss black buttons, like the 986/996 have. But it still looks great.

There are several version you can get, but I have an 8 core CPU, 6GB RAM, 128GB ROM, 4G/LTE and they even gave me a reverse camera, that I haven't plugged in.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005746490879.html

[redpepperracing]

Originally Posted by fridsten

They finally made one that fits the 986/996. And I have the first one!!!

There are several version you can get, but I have an 8 core CPU, 6GB RAM, 128GB ROM, 4G/LTE and they even gave me a reverse camera, that I haven't plugged in.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005746490879.html

That's actually not too bad looking, thanks for doing that! How is the performance of the one you got? They have a cheaper one with less RAM, all I really want is wireless Android Auto, I don't really care about the other stuff. It looks like they have some with a Bose optical cable, I presume this is supposed to work with the Porsche MOST system. I might have to look at this as my current setup is a bit...clunky.

[fridsten]

Originally Posted by redpepperracing

That's actually not too bad looking, thanks for doing that! How is the performance of the one you got? They have a cheaper one with less RAM, all I really want is wireless Android Auto, I don't really care about the other stuff. It looks like they have some with a Bose optical cable, I presume this is supposed to work with the Porsche MOST system. I might have to look at this as my current setup is a bit...clunky.

The one I've got is working great. I use Waze and Spotify without issues. The 4G/LTE connection is reasonably fast (here in Sweden) and it's very responsive. I'm honestly not quite sure it acutally runs Android 12, but there are ways to figure that out. I'll also install an app to remap the physical buttons, since it can't be done with the current software.

[BruceH]

Originally Posted by fridsten

They finally made one that fits the 986/996. And I have the first one!!!


Before the summer I saw one of their head units in a 997 and talked to the owner. It looked stock and was way cheaper than the PCCM+. So I got in touch with one of the sellers on Aliexpress.
They said they were working on a 986/996 version but had run into some problems, so they could use an original Porsche unit in order to get the dimensions perfect. I had already replaced mine with an Android unit, so I shipped my PCM1 to China. In return I got one of their new head units as well as my old one back.

It has a 7" 1024x600 pixel displa and physical buttons. They used the same buttons as they already had on the 987/997 version. It might have been nicer if they had replaced them with round/oval, gloss black buttons, like the 986/996 have. But it still looks great.

There are several version you can get, but I have an 8 core CPU, 6GB RAM, 128GB ROM, 4G/LTE and they even gave me a reverse camera, that I haven't plugged in.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005746490879.html

Wow, that looks great! I have been trying to decide on a new HU for some time. How is the screen with the top down and some sun?

Edit: So after doing some reading on Rennlist I ordered one. I ordered the one with the most ram, extra memory never hurts. Now the wait…

[Hasdrubal]

Recharged my AC to the appropriate pressure, blows ice cold now. Seems like everything is fine with the car lately, moving to preventative work like the water pump/engine mount next.

[PLP]

I went to buy gas on Sunday, coming back from the Motor-Stadt’s 50th anniversary.
After the two drives during the meet I was running low on the way home.
The Mile to Empty was still showing 40 miles when I pulled up the the pump.

I pumped 14.6 gallons (first click).
I do not think i had 40 miles left to go

[BRAN]

Really cool trips, guys. Just looks like you took my Boxster for that tour, stagewax, awesome. Now I just need to photoshop the license plate

One day, I will do a gigantic Can/US tour in my hotrod uh Boxster and visit places

[Troy.Boxster]

Making final preps for my move from central PA to southern Maine. I was supposed to drive a few weeks ago, but on the way to the local shop for a new safety inspection, the water pump went out and took the alternator and some other stuff with it. Thankfully this happened on the way to the shop and not 50 miles into my trip and in the middle of nowhere. It's all good now, but perhaps I should have replaced the water pump when I did the engine mount a couple of years ago. Ah, hindsight.

[Troy.Boxster]

And now I have relocated to the Portsmouth, NH area. I drove from central PA to Portsmouth on Saturday and had a perfectly uneventful 470-mile trip. Beautiful weather was a bonus but I certainly felt every bump and pothole along the way. Almost every bridge (no matter how small) seemed to cause a "bam-bam" on each side of it that made me wonder just how much the car could take. I may have cussed out a state or two regarding their roads.

[Zogg]

Adjusted my driver’s window to seal better. Hopefully no more leaking.

[redpepperracing]

It wasn't today, but it marks a transition point. I was doing an HPDE last weekend and at the start of my third session on Sunday I got a funky idle and a CEL, with a P1341 code for Inlet camshaft bank 1. My buddy has a Durametric so we are going to check camshaft deviation and then go from there. Probably an engine out process, so my journey starts with a Quickjack which is being delivered today. Hopefully it is just the chain guides, based on the plastic shavings in the oil filter, but there is a bunch of other stuff I want to do, and having the engine out will make a lot of that easier.

[stagewex]

I've done a bunch of upgrades to my '02 Box in the almost year that I have owned her but this was the first part(s) failure. Apparently a common one and with the car being 21 years old somewhat expected. I ordered the new switch from Pelican a few months ago when I had to constantly turn the switch on and off a few times to get the headlights to function. Low-Beam didn't work. Eventually last week that stopped working altogether so:



I bought the more expensive OEM German version:



However... WTF, China? Oh well:



Thank Goodness for Youtube with all the hidden little screws:



All went well. Should be good for another 21 years:

[stagewex]

... since I had those plastic tools out and a small bottle of "Goof Off" (kinda the same a "Goo Gone") I soaked those now weathered and even more yellowed old warning labels on top of the Sun Visors. Not sure who they were actually "warning":







Similar to removing the "do not remove under Federal Law" label on a mattress I suppose. Comparison, looks a lot better to me:




Car was so happy I did a full leather clean & conditioner as well. I'm happy too.