What wheels are these (size/offset/etc.)?

My car is trapped in the garage by two pallets of pine bark nuggets...:rolleyes:

Getting ready for the track this weekend
New SS brake lines, full brake flush with Motul 600, new EBC yellow Stuff pads and an oil/filter change

These are just the stock S model wheels from 2003. 17x7 front and 17 x 8.5 rear.

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I went for a drive.
I have owned a Miata for years. For those of you who don’t know when Miata was first introduced there was the “Miata Wave”. When people spotted another Miata on the road you would pop-up (open) your headlights. Then when the newer NB and NC came along guys would simply wave, but it is still called the Miata Wave.
Well I live in a small town and have never seen another Boxster.
So today was a beautiful top down day and as I was driving down a twisty Arkansas road I passed a Boxster driven by a beautiful young girl going the opposite direction and she waved. Made me feel good to see another Boxster and it made me feel good to have her wave and it made me feel young. I may be old enough to be her grandmother, but today we were both enjoying the beautiful weather and amazing Boxster.

Perfect weather in Melbourne today (24) was king of the road until I stopped for lunch when I was joined by a new 911 turbo Cabrio.

Consolation was he paid 10 times more for his car than I paid for my 2003 2.7 for pretty much the same driving experience.(well almost)

The car is going better and better after 7 months and 5000 kms usage, did 190 kms today,

Alan

After spending 5 weeks on vacation in southern Africa we picked up FunToy from the indie that we had bought it from. He had it while we were away to do some minor warranty warranty work. We took it for a drive to chinese dinner to maximize enjoyment before it goes into winter hibernation. Looks like we will have a couple more weeks of good fall weather so more trips. Wish we lives in Florida instead of Massachusetts!

This weekend I have to erect the garage she will sleep in.

Anker

Installed a new top. Six hours from start to finish. Combined several sets of instructions and used my son-in-law to help. Few small wrinkles, but much nicer look than the faded tan top with the window that was falling out. See profile pic for before look.http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1478874544.jpg
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Front: 17x7, ET55
Rear: 17x8.5, ET48

Optional 17" from 2003-2004 models.

Those are 17" Boxster S II wheels (2003/2004)

F - 7x17/55 R - 8.5x17/48
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Not positive, but if I recall correctly from some AutoX conversations I think they are some of the lightest stock 17 wheels.


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What did you do with/to your Boxster today?
 

I recall reading the optional Box II wheels are 4.5 lbs each lighter than the standard 17" wheels.

I like mine, but they are a bit harder to keep clean.


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Congratulations, it looks great. I know that is no easy task.

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I see that its estimated at 16 hours with a 5-wrench degree of difficulty. You did good. :cheers:

Me too, sort of, new rotors and pads on all 4 corners and brake flush, I'm still on ATE Type 200 "Super Gold", and my track weekend is the following weekend. It will be nice to not be sweating the whole time due to the heat here in FL.

Also solved an odd pinging/scraping noise, it was the LCA/tie rod ball joint heat shield behind the rotor, I must have bent it when installing the Koni FSD and it was scraping a high spot/pad deposit on my old rotor. I bent it back and it is blissfully silent now. And now that I see this picture up close, I need to clean my calipers, dang.

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A stupid question ?
 

Why are the guide pins so close to the rotors ?

I don't know but it is freaky close... I guess to hold the pad in place if you run it down to the very end and it is super skinny at that point?

Thanks...Are they a direct bolt-on on a '98?

A Busy Weekend
 

Well I had a 3 day weekend with Veterans' Day and got a lot done on my Boxster.

My Nine8Six projector headlight conversion is finished. I had a lot of help on this, not sure if I would have been able to do it on my own. They came out fantastic. My car is seal grey, so I went with the Gun Metal Turismo series with white Angel Eyes and the 4300k lights, no painting of the reflectors or interior of the lights. My car is an 03 with no amber on the exterior of the turn signals, but the interior amber was removed.

So after putting in the transformed headlights, I decided after 13 years it was finally time to go with clear/smoke side marker lights.

With the headlights and side marker lights out of the way, the next thing on the list was installing Ben006's ball bearing short shifter. Getting the console in and out was the toughest part, but it wasn't a bad job at all. I like the new, firm and short shifts, but it will take some time to get used to!

Then, finally, it was time to install my hard top for the winter.

With that smug feeling of satisfaction, I got into the car and started it, to go out and pick up dinner. The ignition key felt kind of weird, like something inside snapped. The headlights wouldn't come on, although the parking lights and angel eyes did. Also the seat heaters no longer worked. All of these things worked fine after all the other work I did. The key is hard to remove, it doesn't return to the "normal" off position, and the chime goes off when the door is open, even though the key is out of the lock. I can still start and shut off the car. I believe the electrical switch portion of the ignition lock broke, so now I have a project for next weekend! And having read up on this, I ordered two switches and will keep a spare in the car. If this happened at work and I had to drive home in the dark it would have been a real problem!

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Today at 12.15 am I went into the garage to check the car , hoping that nothing had fallen on it .We had a massive earthquake centered just 50 KM from here , a 7.8 magnitude . It really did shake things up .My house and Boxster are all ok though . We had another 6.6 just a few moments ago .Apart from that it's a nice day!!

Nice work, Paul!



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Yikes!
 

Glad you are ok, hope everyone else in your area of the world is too!

Holy cow, Froggo! That is crazy, glad you made it through safely.


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That's normal

Having grown up in SoCal, earthquakes are pretty normal for us. But 7.8 is impressive. Even the aftershocks, at 6.6, are quite serious. I have seen some scary pictures of twisted up asphalt. And sadly, the international news has reported 2 fatalities thus far.

When LA finally has it's 'big one', it will be the start of the Zombie Apocalypse. Good to hear you are okay.

change the ignition switch and starter motor ...I feel so good I was able to do this job my self ..it boosted my confidence up I feel like I can do anything on this car now.

They need to be close to the disk to do their job. As the pads wear, the caliper pistons will push out and the backing plate of the pad will be closer to the rotor, and the guide pins can still do their job. The guide pins are in a fixed position, they are never going to touch the rotor. But I felt the same thing when I did my front brakes, I had to think it through!

Good Job! I'm going to do the ignition switch next weekend. I've done a few things on my car but nothing involving the engine or removing any of the engine access panels!

for the ignition make sure you have a short and thin friend to take the two screws that hold the ignition together...it worked for me ..lol ! am a big guy and didn't want take the seat out

At 6-3 and 200 I'm not small either. I'm planning on removing the side air vent, the lower ductwork and maybe the headlight switch, but not the seat. Amazon is delivering a headlamp that straps to my head and I'm buying that $7 flexible screwdriver set from Harbor Freight.

Burned up my damn clutch! Arghhhhh!!!

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Not good enough! We need the story behind this!

DBear

I figured teaching a teenager 1st gear starts would be easy in a big parking lot if I pointed him downhill.

I figured wrong.

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Looking back at the first page of this thread...post #4...we were so young and stupid, Liesl and I.
Where did the time go?

I may be a bit intoxicated...signing off.

Sorry to hear. Tried teaching my wife to drive manual on the Boxster, and after a few stalls, I told her that was it for the lessons that day. Perhaps your clutch was on it's way out soon anyway?...how many miles on it?...

That's how I did mine :) Removing the headlight switch and that vent made it a lot easier for me :)

New Michelin PS2's on the Box, replacing the Continentals. Always hard to compare old tires vs. new - but I will say the PS2's feel nice and grippy - and the road noise is considerably less than the 5 year old Conti's. And done just in time to go to sleep for the winter!
#can'twaitforspring

Most likely was worn to begin with, though I never noticed it slipping. The car came with a fairly extensive service record and there's no mention of a clutch job anywhere, though I'm not sure a stock clutch could last 96k miles.

I got rid of my dd a few months ago, so I'm stranded until I get it done and that may be a while. :(

96k is pretty good for a clutch. Hope you get her back on the road soon.

Well I left work a couple hours early today, came home and changed out the electrical switch portion of my ignition lock. I ordered 2 of the $7 Meyle switches from ECS Tuning, but because I ordered another part from them that wasn't in, those won't be here until next week. So I cancelled one of the switches from ECS and bought one at my local NAPA store. It was pretty straightforward, thanks to the tips here and at Pedro's. One weird thing, the wrapping around the wires for the lighting on the light switch was really gooey! I wrapped that up with some black tape and cleaned up the goo, put it all back together and everything works!

I was surprised that this plastic part caused the steering wheel to not lock and that the car started and some things worked, but not the headlights and not the heated seats! So I was concerned that changing this switch out for a new one wasn't going to fix everything, but it did!

I have to say my hands and wrists hurt from getting in there to do the work. I had a great boss for 10 years who used to say "I'm getting too old for this ****!" about stuff in the office. I'm starting to feel like that about some of these jobs!

Tomorrow I get to drive the Boxster to work and back, 120 miles total, with my new Ben006 ball bearing shifter and my new Nine8Six projector lights!

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Were you in a locker room when you posted that? :p

DBear

I changed the oil...
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Then took it for a spin:
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...Should have used Mobil 1. :eek::eek::eek:

That happen quick!