Made my 200th forum post!:cheers: But also still IMPATIENTLY waiting on my GT3 rep sideskirts and Cayman S spoiler to come in:(

Picked it up and drove it
 

New Porsche Boxster owner and new member. Picked my car up from the shop yesterday after purchasing it a week or so ago. Needed some work based on the ppi. Mainly brakes (pads and rotors) and ignition coils. I also chose "some" elective preventative maintenance procedures (I.e. clutch, imsb, rms, aos). Drove it home in a rainstorm but still had a blast. Top down driving today what a great car! 03 boxster s black on black 76k miles. I am still not sure about the decals on the sides but will keep them for a while and decide later. They have grown on me quite a bit since I first saw the car. Shop said they can remove them very easily if I change my mind.

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Good looking ride Myoung73. :cheers:

I like the stripes. :cool:

I like it Myoung73! Sounds like you removed half the fun which is working on it! You have the critical items addressed... IMSB ! Did the shop give you the old bearing? If so how did it look. Enjoy the ride!

Taking her in for IMSB upgrade and RMS. Lead mechanic is at Porsche school all of next week so I will not have the Box for two weeks. Well worth the wait since, reading all the grenaded engine posts resulting from IMSB, I will finally get peace of mind!

Drove the ever loving (or is it living??) SHEET out of it!!!!!

Still smells hot.....

Thanks! Yea I wanted to get the work done for peace of mind. They didn't give me the bearing (I should have asked) but I did ask he said it looked fine. Oh well u never know until you take it out anyway and from what I have learned they can look fine one day and fail the next. Plus it was getting time for a clutch anyway. The car is awesome, fast, handles on rails and just so much fun to drive. I am so excited. Also many thanks to this forum as I did quite a bit of research here first! I hope to start doing projects on my own with the help of the amazing community here!

Started off just changing the belt, there was a slight sound from the idler hubs, removed them to replace the bearings but could not find any in the city on a Saturday. Went old school, removed the bearing seals and re packed the bearings with high temp grease. After reassembly, belt is quite. No problems after a 200 mile drive this afternoon.

Changed the oil and filter... no metal in filter, YAY!

Short Shifter
 

Installed and love the difference

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Overdue

Replaced the seals on the spark plug tubes... For the second time.

After topping up the power steering fluid I accidentally dropped the drivers sidetop ball retaining clip down the drain.:mad:
Made a new one out of some thin stainless welding rod.

Also washed, waxed, and rainexed.

Used the mothers kid to restore my headlights. The process removed the yellow and cleared them up very well.

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Looks good cardiffgiant. I used the mothers kit to restore my headlights too, but I also used Dupli-Color's headlight sealer uv protectant. Mothers is better for the restore than the Dupli-Color, but the headlight protectant is much better in the Dupli-Color kit. You might look into getting it, to protect your headlights better.

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I did use a protectant from a different brand. I don't recall if it was duplicolor. I had the same concern. The Mothers kit has everything that you need to eliminate deeper imperections, but then leaves the plastic exposed to UV.

If the sealant that I used was something different, I'll grab some of the duplicolor. while the process was veyr smooth, I'm not eager to do it again any time soon.

It's just as easy to use as they show in the video. You would have to work hard at messing it up, just make sure there isn't a bunch of dust around.

Great ride up Mt. St Helens
 

Sunday AM we took off for Spirit Lake on Mt. St. Helens. About a 240 mile round trip from home. Great roads (many curves very light traffic in the morning, a few partial washouts that cause some fun whoop de doos) Seeing the very slow recovery of the mountain makes this my favorite route to see St. Helens. If you are in the area you must do this ride.

Clay barred the body and glass- amazing results. Followed up with Black Wax. I highly recommend the claying process- gonna do my golf cart next.http://986forum.com/forums/uploads01...1434694947.jpg

Hey MN are you with any Porsche groups I live in Winona?

Changed my oil. took me 4 days
It's been 7 month and some where around 3000 miles
Why 4 days, I dropped the sump plate. I did it last year to check.
I still need to cut the filter and examine but the sump was super clean.
I'm much happier with this locktite 5900 application then last years. Last time was on my back, colder weather, trying to apply to engine side. I wanted to kill my self
This year I applied to the plate side. At least I could stand up and apply
That Locktite plunger system is the worst possible way to apply this stuff. Trying to push the plunger, maintain a steady hand and a small bead is painful. This stuff will not flow through the 1.5mm hole.
I got-her done though so now I can sort of relax. I still nerviously check for any signs of leaking

Finished replacing my rotors and painting the calipers.

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And yes, I rock the Goodyears. I love them.

Agreed - I had a terrible time doing it. I saw a picture one time of a tool like a caulking gun that this tube slips into and then you have a way to put some real leverage on it. I have never found the actual tool yet.

If I ever do this again I am going to use the Drei-bond which comes in a metal tube with a winding type handle built in to help force out the sealant.

Steve

Just got home from a trip to Ottawa, seeing my son. The roads in northern Ontario are amazing compared to SW Ontario, down home all the roads were laid out in nice straight grids. I found one road with at least 3 km of Back and forth twisting roads, I couldn't get it out of 3rd gear. What a blast.http://986forum.com/forums/uploads01...1435023071.jpg

Over 6 hours of driving, get there, averaged 27.5 mpg, not to bad
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Forks of the Credit is a nice, twisty drive with Hockley Valley not too far away (between Erin and Orangeville). That is a nice drive. Far closer than Ottawa to fill the void till you can go back. (The Gatineau hills are a cool drive in the fall)

I replaced the driver's side break light (bulb). I looked a YouTube and other places looking for instructions, because there is a lot of really good stuff out there. But there is no need to remove the taillight housing from the car. I did it all right from the trunk.

Yesterday I did the 30 second install of the comfort top module. Love it!

987 spoiler and motor assembly came in last week & got the chance to paint and install. A few pictures I was able to snap this morning.
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& Gt3 rep side skirts came in as well. They're a bit much for me to paint on my own so hopefully will be having those fitted and painted soon(along with a GT3 front bumper).
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That 987 spoiler looks great!
No problem to open the trunk with that new spoiler?
What paint did you use?

Thank you! As for fitment, the gap between the "frunk" and spoiler was a bit tight at first but managed to fix that with easy adjustment. As for paint, I use Rustoleum primer spray cans, and Duplicolor base coat and clear spray cans. My car is just plain black so I was able to match DupliColor's universal black to it.

I've always used Rustoleum primer and DupliColor paint for little projects and I swear you wouldn't notice it was a rattle can job. A good 2-4 hours of wet-sanding with 1500-2500-3000grit gets rid of all the orange peel and a nice buff at the end. Ill snap some pics of the paint when I get home

Drove to the PCA 60th in French Lick, Indiana
 

Quite a nice variety of P-cars. I took the following images:
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PCA 60th, a few more photos
 

…the little Nikon served me well.

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I went to the Euro show in Central New York. I don't know why I got stuck between two turbos. My headlights must look that cool !!:cool:

I attended a club BBQ in my Boxster S. The club is for British Cars, and I renewed my membership just before selling my 1998 Jaguar XK8 convertible and buying the Porsche (not in that order, but I did not own four cars for very long !)http://986forum.com/forums/uploads01...1435260651.jpg

I mounted today my 10-spoke Carrera chrome wheels, I love them!

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Now waiting for my Litronics to show up :)

Replaced the alternator which was back from the shop for repair, fitted a new serpentine belt at the same time and then took for a gentle test drive..... And then a faster test drive once I knew all was ok 😃

Love those wheels

Thank you sir :cheers:

Some of those cars and the tractor look exactly like ones from here in North West AL.....at Trissel Porsche

Washed and vacuumed it. The wash ended up revealing that the hood has a decent number of tiny white chips in the paint. Black car not a huge surprise but it must have been buffed out by the previous owner and now my first wash has revealed it. It's not that bad but will probably try to buff them out a bit myself. If anyone has any good suggestions on the best approach I'm all ears.