My 986
 

Hey all,
Here are a few pics of my car. It is finally coming out of the shop tomorrow, Friday. Looking forward to getting it on the road this weekend. it is supposed to be really nice. Anyway I thought I would show and tell :)

http://www.jhmsolutions.com/1.jpg

http://www.jhmsolutions.com/2.jpg

http://www.jhmsolutions.com/3.jpg

That **************** is da bomb yo.^:)

Thx adam,
A lot of time and money went into it looking and running the way it does. I appreciate the positive feedback :)
Once I have more information from my shop I will let you all know but one of the import tuning magazines is planning on expoing my car in one of their future publications.
Once I get it back later today, this weekend I will take some better pics outside on the road of it on the finished products :)

Pretty Sweet! Where did you get that done? Was it in the Northern Virginia area? I grew up in Fairfax.

hey Q,
yeah I live in Alexandria. THere is a place called Porsche Pitstop in Alexandria. We have worked together for over a year putting the performace and body mods together. We picked parts from various manufacturers that we liked and put it all together.

jfmillr
 

Nice!!!

By the way, what year is your Boxster?

I rarely see that type of rear spoiler on a Boxster. Where and how $$ if you don't mind me asking.

Thx,
its a 2000 with just over 25 k miles. Notice the plates 09860....
several companies make a simular wings. FVD, Gemballa, Strosek and I beleive a few others probably are around who make them. They start at just a couple hundred dollars and can go up from there depending on who made them and of what material. Also getting it painted and installed can be about equal in price.

Nice Car. You've got mine beat.

Did you get the car back yet? I'd really like to see a picture with that new front end installed.

yeah I got it back. Tomorrow, sunday I will take some pics... Gotta run...post it later...

I like the look of the back without the bumperettes and the screen behind your plate. I like the rear wing too. BTW, I know tweeks sells those wings, but I can't remember for how much $$ Mark. Miller, are those the boxster S brake calipers, or did you get those painted red yourself? The rotors appear to be non S.

THx. Yeah I had them remove the bumperettes and put a stainless steel mesh grill behind it. I also had them paint the heat sheild and aluminum bumper behind the mesh so it would not be noticeable behind the mesh.
Hehe, so you noticed the calipers. Yes while the guy was painting almost 80% of the car, he offered for an additional $250 to powder paint all four caliper. How could I say no to that?!?!?
My brake pads have about 4-5k miles left on them. Once the pads go bad I will replace them along with new rotors like the S.
On a side note I raced a freinds '986 S' last night and beat him with little hesitation. He wasnt too happy to get outrun by a non S...hehe :)

FYI I just changed the photos above. I left the one for the rear bumper since its a pretty good pic andreplaced the others to show the front end in place and again with the sides.

Well, no one will ever confuse your car for a regular plain boxster Miller. It looks impressive. Very custom look. One thing I would have done since it was in the shop anyway was paint the engine grills to match the body like the newer boxsters. Would have been easy to do I believe. That is as long as they had A/S around and it looks like they did. Hold up, maybe they did do it. It's hard to tell from the pic because of the angle.

Hehe. Yeah I had thought about that, but I found some Carbon FIber air intakes I plan to install on both sides. THats why I didnt bother. The grills wont be there in a few weeks once I install the new air scoops. The scoop will match up with the look of the side effects scoop. But I knew what you meant :)

Awesome. Well done. I wish I still lived in the area so I could check it out in person.

FYI I posted new pics to this link....

http://www.986forum.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=4811#post4811

jfmillr your car looks amazing!! What else can I say!? I love the rear bumber mounted exhaust, not only looks incredible but... is really unique, any sound files? I do have a question for you... is the rear diffuser under the mesh, part of the bumber or can you take it off? Also if you dont mind me asking what did the complete rear exhaust set you back? Take care man.

thx for the compliments :)
No I dont have any sound clips yet. I have yet to record anything on it. I will try to get something of a sound clip soon.
The rear diffusor is mounted by 4 bolts. THe 2 that you see just below the license plate area and then there are two more connected where the lower crossbars below the engine . It is removable however if you remove it you can see where ther stock exhaust was. As far as the rear bumper goes off the top of my head I spent about 5k. That is parts, painted, and installed. That does not include the price for the highflow cats, headers and pipes to the muffler. Add about $2500 for those items. My shop guys said if it had been anyone off the street coming in to do this mod he would normally charge about 8k just for the muffler and bumper.

:) No problem man!, I really dig the custom look of the rear exhaust, very nice touch almost Carrera GT esche, does Gemballa sell any other style diffuser to cover the rear?, more along the lines of a Ruf 3600S..that car's diffuser looks alot like the Modena's. Anyway SHARP car, I am sure were all looking forward to some vid/audio of that exhaust does she set off car alarms? that's the sign of a good exhaust!! ;)

Acrtually my old Gemballa exhaust would set off alarms left and right. This new bumper is designed from RUF parts. My new muffler is made by RUF and the diffusor is made by RUF as well. The Gemballa rear bumper is simular but different in design. You can see it on the Gemballa website. It is also much much more expensive. I am going to bring a sound recorder in the car today and put it in the trunk while driving and hopefully I can get a few good soundbites :)

Got you Jm! I assumed it was the Gemballa, I actually looked at it closer on there website on there BI-Turboed 986, I like your's a bit more, do they offer different style's of the diffuser?. Looks completley custom, you will never see your twin on the road! Do you know if Ruf's 3600S diffuser make it to production?

I dont know if you've already told us this or not, but what motor is in this?

I still have a 2.7L in this car. Next winter I am planning an upgrade to a 3.4L and at the same time the TTP twin turbo bolt on kit. My expected output with just those upgrades should put me at about 475 HP Currently I am running around 285 Hp, and yes it was Dyno'd at that.

My god Miller, by the time you are done with your boxster you will have more money than the cost of a 911 turbo wrapped up into that thing. Doesn't the conversion alone cost approx 15K? What's the turbo run, 6-7k? pLus who knows what else to handle the extra juice! Then we have all that wonerful stuff called labor charges. Well, I guess when your done you can say no one has a boxster quite like mine!:)

Actually I dont have plans for a 911 or should I say 996 in the near future. I am quit happy with the idea of having a 986 that is completely modified. My next purchase will be for my wife. I want to get rid of her ML320 and get her a Cayanne. Hopefully this summer. Actually what I am looking to do, I have been quoted another 15 k for it all. I dont pay a full rate on labor charges at the shop I goto. We have a deal, I take all my cars to one shop and my labor rate comes to about half, which works out to about $30-35 an hour. Yeah in the end I probably could have bought a 911, but I really like the idea of having a totally unique mid-engine 986 over having the same 996 as the guy next to me. THe money it costs to upgrade the 996 the way I want would cost me twice as much!
I can already say noones 986 is like mine, but still want s 0-60 mph in 3.2 seconds! Give me my Turbos!!! :)

Adam I understand your logic and agree, but the concept of a boxster with greater than 996 turbo power, in the 986's mid engine design is incredible, I am in all favor of such a car, it would run circles around a 996 turbo, right? It takes a dedicated enthusiast to carry out such a task, :cheers:

Love the rear spoiler and exhuasts !!!!! :dance:

Thx, I really should put a new pic of the bumper up/ The ones on this site are a little sloppy. The shop readjusted the rear spoilers and put the license plate on properly. Few minor details to clean up the look.
Thx for the compliment! I am glad that all the hard work looks good :)
Porschecrazy: I agree, thats why I am doing it. I love the idea of the 986 running circles around its big brother :)

well thought I would add to this thread. I think I have finally finished working on the outside of the car. Here are the updated pics.....
http://www.09860.com/n1.jpg
http://www.09860.com/n2.jpg
http://www.09860.com/n3.jpg
http://www.09860.com/n4.jpg
http://www.09860.com/n5.jpg
http://www.09860.com/n6.jpg

Very nice! Thanks for sharing the pics. We need to see more modded Boxsters!

Nice car! Thanks for pics!

Your car looks incredible. Great imagination on the design. What engine mods are you planning?

Well I have already started I have done headers back to exhaust, TTP cold air intake, Gemballa wide throttle body, iridium plugs, custon ECU mapping on a Dyno and the TTP high performance clutch. I do plan to bore my engine to a 3.4 and do the TTP twin turbo package. I have held off on doing it for a while wince I have been working on other areas of the car...Suspension and body work are completed.

I've been lustig after this GT2 nose before I even bought my 2000 S!
I thought "wow add this and I have one really exotic looking car"
Is it the fiberglass/polyuerthane mix? I located one and they offered to paint the nose and the aerokit II sideskirting for $600. Do you think it will just bolt on after its been painted?

After doing perofmances mods to my previous car I'm really not in a hurry to go through all that again. It really transformed the car but this car is great straight out of the "BOX" So I'm hoping I won't have to lower it with this body kit just for the sake of appearance.

Anyone have any good links for lightweight wheels not made by Porsche?(my previous 15" Autocross wheels were 13 pounds, I think my 17" S wheels are 30 pounds!)

By the way JFmillr,
I agree 100% I ALWAY dreamed about a 911 1973 RS with Tartan seats, and then settled on the idea of a 996. But after driving a Boxster I'm not sure that I would give it up for a tin top and more ponies. I think a convertible 911 is blasphemy so really its a Boxster or broke for me. This season I'll be autocrossing my S against all the other 911's (my local club rules bump up the S one class) with a nice set of Victoracers or Azenis I'm curious to see how well I'll do against the Boxster's big brother.

With the mods that you've done, what horsepower gains have you noticed & was it worth the money. I'm looking to do a few things to my 99, but I was told by the local porsche race team that I'm better off getting a 3.4L or changing to the new "S".

Jim,

How in the world did you get 285HP out of the 2.7L?? I would love some info!! :cheers:

How is
 

Porsche Pit Stop?


Just saw this, you are selling it?
What are you getting?
http://www.09860.com/

285 at the wheels?

285hp on a N/A 2.7? I wanna see dyno sheets on that one.