911-style Rear Bumper for 986S?
 

G'day all,

I've searched and searched here and can't find an answer, but please shoot me down (or at least point me in the right direction) if someone has already posted on this subject.

I'm wondering whether anyone has come across, or fitted themselves, a rear bumper that uses the twin (left and right) exhaust locations as per the 911 series rather than the centre location as per the Boxster / Cayman / 997 GT3?

Given the stupidly prohibitive cost of importing any of the aftermarket exhaust solutions into Australia, I'm toying with the idea of having a local exhaust shop manufacture a custom exhaust designed mainly for track work (ie as light as possible, 95dB max, resonance not an issue). The shop suggested (quite rightly) that to replicate the bends involved in taking the exhaust to the centre outlet location in the rear bumper is just adding cost, labour and flow restrictions, and pondered whether we can just outlet the exhausts on either side a la 911.

Has anyone come across a rear bumper suitable for a 986S that allows this exhaust configuration? I'm assuming that the 996 bumper doesn't fit (basically because there are dozens of people here who have fitted 996 front bumpers, but none I can see who have done the rear) but very happy to be corrected there.

Any thoughts from the experts here? Or perhaps any reasons why nobody has gone with the side exiting exhausts on their Boxster systems?

Thanks all,

James

It doesnt fit, not only cause they exhaust but because the taillight design and upper mid section of the bumper differ from eachother too much to even come close to fitting... Theres a company that makes TT rear bumpers for the 986 but the makers of this bumper smoke really really potent weed and want thousands for a rear bumper.

http://stuttgartconnection.co.uk/

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/86tl_r34.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...res/86tl_r.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...res/86tl_s.jpg

LOL :D

CJ_Boxster,

Thanks for the reply - that TT rear bumper does look nice but anything so expensive defeats the point, as I may as well just import an exhaust system with Boxster central outlets instead! I'm not sure that I'd want to go with such a TT lookalike either - my car isn't a Turbo nor does it pretend to be one, so putting a TT style bumper doesn't really work - a plain Carrera style version would be ideal.

Looks like this one needs a bit more thought.

James

fixed (based on your own logic)

my car isn't a Carrera nor does it pretend to be one, so putting a Carrera style bumper doesn't really work

:D

touché - guess I walked into that one.

My point was just that it's the exhaust design that might potentially require a different rear bumper style, rather than trying to restyle the rear bumper which would lead to a different exhaust design.

With that in mind, what I'd really like is an exact copy of my Boxster bumper, just with the outlets for the exhaust on the sides rather than in the centre. I suspect that's exactly what you get with a 911 Carrera bumper.

Either way, it seems like there's nothing on the market to do this, so perhaps it's a moot point.