Is that Slate Metallic paint? If so, you and I are the only two that have that awesome color or though it seems.:cheers:

Wow those wheels sure look nice and clean! I will have to do a deep clean on mine as well.

After a long day of conference calls, walked downstairs into the garage past the beer fridge (will power gents) and took her out for a spin downtown to stretch my legs. What a beautiful day!

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It was finally warm enough to waterproof my top the other day. Just in time for the not rainy season!

Thank you sir! Even waxed the calipers!

I woke the box up early today for a ride down to Monterey, and then treated her to 5 20 minute sessions at Laguna Seca.

I moved mine over in the garage to gauge how much more room I need to fit the 964 in there as well.

Rain Forest Green Pearl
 

In response to 01BOXYS question!

According to my sticker mine is 2A1, which is Rain Forest Green Pearl.http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1460290894.jpg

Hey Chboro, same as mine, 01S!!

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Yours is probably in much better condition. Mine's been through three cross-country trips in the past four years, running into road kill, tumbleweeds and gravel. Photo above is on Tail of the Dragon last July.

DBear

Drove 125 MPH at the CA Festival of Speed
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Drove it to work for the first time this year.
Turned on the heater and got a bit of mist/smoke. Going to plan to do heater core soon.

First return to the road in 2016
 

First drive of the year. Tested out new 's' oil cooler and center radiator. All is well. Hope it is a good year for us and all the 986's out there.

Activated the insurance for the summer and will get it out of hibernation this afternoon.

Edit: Took it for a shake down drive after 5 and 1/2 months in hibernation . . . Sweet!

Finally got to drive mine to work today, really makes the drive a lot more enjoyable!

Planning on putting on quite a few miles other the next couple of days with the weather bring so nice here in MN.


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I put a subaru engine in it and called it a 718---- LOL

Added these.
For under $100, not a big risk. If I don't like the feel then worst case I have a few holes in my pedals
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Those look sharp. Where did you order them from? I have been thinking of adding these as well. Was the install hard?

Amazon - Carlab
They import from Hong Kong
Took about a month to ship if you don't expedite
Install was about 3 hours. Took time to make sure I got brake and clutch pedal lined up.
Hardware included was all wrong so I had to do that as well

2002 s
 

Temp on Long Island 65, top down long ride. :cheers:http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1460746821.jpg

Your car is beautiful, eallga72!


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I agree, very nice! I love your wheels:cheers:

I took delivery of my 2006 base today! Grinning like a possum. But already have a few items to resolve.

Well, not exactly the trip home that I wanted... Unfortunately, I chose a poor day to drive the car home from KC to Denver. It was torrential rain, and had about 30 miles left of fuel, so I turned off the cruise control and there was a substantial thump from the motor. I immediately thought "OMG! IMS bearing!" but then realized that it was just a massive misfire condition. CEL came on and I limped to gas up. The CEL went away after fueling and I went on my way, thinking that Boxsters didn't like running on fumes. About 30 miles later, same thing. So, I pulled off I-70 and sat there. I turned the ignition back on and the check oil level thing took about 10 minutes (?). CEL came right back. Western Kansas isn't a great place to get stuck, so I saw that I was close to an O'Reilly's (better than nothing) and limped off with the hazards flashing. The nice gal pulled the code (P0306 - Engine misfire). Rather than get stuck in Burlington, I chose to drive the rest of the way (also a blizzard approaching). Amazingly, the misfire seems to have gone away, but the CEL is still on.

Any ideas? Logic says something got very, very wet, and then dried off.

Took the front bumper cover off, pulled the scoops (all 3) and cleaned the radiators.

Broke one of the plastic wheel well rivets and discovered that the Styrofoam "bumper cover protector" was gone (only one of the retaining tabs remained).

Found a bunch of stuff in there between the radiators and the evaporators - leaves, cigarette butts, plastic wrappers, etc. but not as bad as I thought it would be.

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Out of hibernation three weeks ago. The weather has been grey, rainy, and snow showers which has not been conducive to the first, nice long top-down drive until Friday. Drove about 80 beautiful top-down miles grinning all the time and looking forward to many more days like it until the sad day it goes back to hibernate.

Larry (the bald eagle)

A bad coil pack comes to mind first

That's certainly my hope! Thanks for the feedback.

Fingers crossed. And you really shouldn't have to worry about the IMS on 06 and up. So far, extremely few issues on that bigger, sturdier bearing. Hopefully that continues as the kilometres roll.

Yes, that is another hope after a lot of research and one of the reasons I went with an 06. I took note of the serial number of the motor, M96/2561605638, and verified the build date of January 2006.

I still got a warranty just in case. :)

Brakes and speakers
 

Gave the front new rotors, pads and sensors and installed the alpine speakers up front. Okay it wasn't today it was a few days ago and it took me a couple of days to get it done. :D For some reason the photo rotates when I upload it.
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Nice. How do the alpines sound up front and which model did you go with? I have a pair of alpines I am going to replace the dash speakers with and also got the rear speaker kit to install. Hopefully will get going on that soon.

This will improve your sound 2 fold

Installed two parking lights in my headlights. Pulling the whole headlights out is pretty easy.

I used the Alpine SPS-410 and followed the DIY video on using the old speaker mounting ring. Sounds so much better.

Great to hear. Those are the same I have ready to go in. Glad they sound good!

De-snorkeled yesterday!

welded roll bar
 

I dropped her off today for the welded rear roll bar...

wating sux

Canabalized two bad keys,(one slow blink, other bad buttons), to get one that's fully functional. No more having to unlock the car manually and use the floor levers to get to the trunks :)

Like to see pictures of that when it's done.

Pictures, Will do!.

local guy, well recommended, does lots of Spec racer's cages...

so, eager to continue my build....

(belts, windbreak, top-or-914 thing?) ect

any pictures of clamshell aftermarket hold-downs?

Had her detailed, applying for stated value insurance. http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1461033152.jpg
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