Nice - well having it done professionally certainly got it job done quickly! Interesting that the rear noise ended up being a bad balljoint. I'm curious if you know whether the boot was in tact, or had it been torn? I've read threads here where I seem to recall people injecting grease into the noisy, dry boots (piercing the boot with a syringe-like injector, apparently) to quiet noisy and dry balljoints. I undid the upper boot clip and dabbed additional synthetic grease in all the balljoints and tie rod ends when at rebuilt mine, (and rotated the joints 90 degrees for good measure), so hopefully that preventive maintenance will make them last.
I went with Koni yellows/sports. Koni was very good about replacing the rears (which I noticed on the first pair I got, had obviously very uneven compression damping). The Bilsteins they put OE on these cars and also available aftermarket do seem to be good quality and also as they are all twin-tubes, quite street able without too much high-frequency noise like monotubes shocks are known to have.
I need to clean out junk in front of my radiators too. And the shifter is a bit sloppy. And the paint is a bit swirled. And the accelerator pedal is a bit sticky. And the shifting is difficult when cold (which I'll address hopefully with some new fluid here pretty soon). Aside from that though, its pretty good. Sure looks great, and really fun to drive with the top down, and my wife loves it (she's always wanted a Porsche, so now we finally get to "live the dream"
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Edit: oh almost forgot to add, there is some rattling in the exhaust when warmed up. (Maybe some cat guts get loosened up when they warm up?). I think the car had an air-oil separate failure and replacement right before I got it, so maybe that was hard on the cats. No problems with emission, CEL, or performance (at least that I can tell). I did diagnose some exhaust leaks ("ticking" / clicking noises) in the exhaust joints near the mufflers (aftermarket) and OE secondary cats. Car is a bit "droney" with its current modified exhaust setup, but sounds awesome above about 3k.
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