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It's cloudy, rainy, and gloomy, so my son suggested that I get my Porsche fix the same way he does ;)

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Airborne Porsche!!! :eek:
LMAO :D

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lol, I do the same thing on Gran Turismo as they have Porsche (RUF) cars on there too, with the Boxster being one of them. :)

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Originally Posted by KRAM36 (Post 347371)

Got new rear tires, cleaned the entire car, let daughter take her driver's test in it and she passed. So proud of her. :)

You are a brave man . . . :eek:

Particlewave; Which game is that? I have't seen that one!

Replaced my Driver's side window regulator. Works like new, and I only had one unexplained bolt left over.

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Originally Posted by Porsche Chick (Post 347476)

Particlewave; Which game is that? I have't seen that one!

Need For Speed: Most Wanted, Limited Edition for the Xbox 360 ;)
It's the only game I've found with actual Porsches(most have RUF).

Yesterday was on a mountain drive with the PCA club in San Diego. Suddenly my wife yells out, there's smoke coming out the back. Low and behold I see lot of white smoke and pull over. Immediate thoughts of oil burning!!!

Fortunately one of the group leaders saw me and stopped. Needed his fire extinguisher for a small spot of oil burning. No damage from it thankfully.

Recently I just did my IMS and RMS, so I immediately thought something I did failed. So AAA came to the rescue and towed us home about 60 miles. Got the car off the bed of the truck and started up just fine. But felt no steering.

Turns out it was the Power Steering fluid that was smoking and not the engine oil :dance:

Turns out its a common problem when you install aftermarket headers. Seems the pressure line for the power steering tends to rest up against the header. The heat melted the hose and cause it to leak.

Advice to everyone who had aftermarket headers - check the driver's side and make sure the power steering hose is NOT resting against the header.

So today, I had the pleasure of removing the hose. Not hard, but not easy. You have to loose the AC compressor so you can wiggle the PS line from behind it. So hopefully I will have the replacement hose this week so I can get her back together.

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Be careful with any spilled power steering fluid, it eats anything rubber.

Repaired the rear of the top, as the adhesive strips holding it to the bottom bow had let loose. Now the back of the canvas is taut again, and I actually had a little difficulty closing it. It looks much, much better. :D

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Originally Posted by Eric G (Post 347374)

Pics or it didn't happen!!!!

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Top down and took a few shots during lunch time just now... what a beautiful weather!

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evo-r, if you want to update the look of your front end,
Plasti Dip the strakes in your radiator openings. I love the look on mine.

Darn it...Google maps car just went by and I didn't have the Box out :(

Now my house will be shown on street view with my beat up '98 Neon in the driveway :p

Das sieht gut aus MUMP. :) ;)

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Originally Posted by heliguy (Post 347953)

evo-r, if you want to update the look of your front end,
Plasti Dip the strakes in your radiator openings. I love the look on mine.

You got pictures?

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Originally Posted by AndyA6 (Post 348004)

Das sieht gut aus MUMP. :) ;)

Danke.

p.s. I am US military stationed here, enjoying the autobahn. ;)

My son and I took the Boxster to legoland...hehe :D

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I had a very strange thing happen to me today... My wife and I took a drive to a countryside park, about 30 minutes from the house, just to get-out and enjoy the day. As we pulled into the park this guy comes running over to the Jägermobile and tells us to park in the parking lot on the left. I thought to myself this is very strange, maybe he's a Park Ranger in civilian clothing or something?? So I park the car in the left parking lot as directed and as we were stepping-out of the Jägermobile there were approximately 30 Porsches pulling into the same parking lot behind us! It was the Santa Barbara chapter of the PCA on a Poker Run. I had no idea of that event was going-on today. Needless to say I had to talk to a few Porsche owners, all of them saying to join the club.

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