What did you do with/to your Boxster today?

[trimer]

Originally Posted by steved0x

Changed the oil in the Boxster; this is only the second time in my life I've changed oil; the first time was helping my son a few weeks ago in his Miata.

Impressions: man that oil comes out fast!!!

It was a lot more turns on the oil filter housing than I thought it would be to get it off. And it was on tight! I torqued it back to 19 ft/lbs.

Put in an LN Magnetic Oil Drain plug and torqued it to 19 ft/lbs oer the little sticker that came on it. After tightening it finger tight; 19 ft/lb was barely a turn of the wrench. I sure hope I did it right.

9 quarts of Castrol5w40 Full Synthetic "with Syntec"

I have saved the filter and will cut it open first chance I get; I am headed to a bday party for my girlfriend's 13 (soon to be 14) yr old daughter!

Steve

I thought it was 18 ft lbs for filter housing and 35 for the drain plug???

[steved0x]

Originally Posted by trimer

I thought it was 18 ft lbs for filter housing and 35 for the drain plug???

The stock drain plug is a lot higher, Pelican Parts says it is 37 ft/lbs and 19 for the filter housing (I guess not much diff between 18 and 19)

The LN Magnetic plug had a sticker right over the outside that had to be removed to insert the hex tool that said 19.

No leakage so far but I have only driven 6 miles

The dash says I am right at the bottom of the range, I'll check the dipstick tomorrow and see if I need to add anymore. 9 whole qts in so far.

Steve

[Mike_Yi]

Thought seriously about selling it to be done with the headache.

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[Deserion]

Checked out a 2006 987 for my mom today. Was pretty nice overall, has a better exhaust note than my 986 does.

[Eric G]

Well today was the first day for a spirited drive to test all of my work. Our regional PCA group put on a wonderful drive to Bickleton Wa, then down to Maryhill winery and back home (~240 miles). Got to met Dave Cooley who is the PCA rep for Region 6 Big Sky country who was on one of his required drives, and hear about the vintage Porsche cars he is working on including a beautiful 356. Here are a couple of pics...







(Note: the road may look desolate, but this was the tamest of places to take a picture, everything else in and out of canyons with lots of elevation change, and yes it's dry this is not the green side of Washington...but we have less LEO)!

[jb92563]

I got 4 new Hankooks installed. 255/40-17, 215/50-17

Yes, you can fit all 4 new tires in the car to take to the shop.

a front and rear on the passenger seat, a rear in the frunk with the spare removed, and a front in the trunk with the trunk hanging open a bit.

Compared to the old Pilot Sports I already notice an increase in traction but it takes 200-300 mi to properly break them in apparently so it will get even better.

[tony_fury]

Saturday, took the car to Santiago Canyon, then to Live Oak..
I've taken this ride on my motorcycle many times, was fun to take the car. (Some of you familiar with Cooks Corner)
Came hone the car was hot, the wheels were hot to touch..

I love this hairpin turn at the end of Live Oak,, hard right then an immediate banking uphill left. when you crest the top you cannot see the road for moment..
T

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[reiver]

Originally Posted by jb92563

I got 4 new Hankooks installed. 255/40-17, 215/50-17

Yes, you can fit all 4 new tires in the car to take to the shop.

a front and rear on the passenger seat, a rear in the frunk with the spare removed, and a front in the trunk with the trunk hanging open a bit.

Compared to the old Pilot Sports I already notice an increase in traction but it takes 200-300 mi to properly break them in apparently so it will get even better.

Mine came with Hankooks, but I noticed that the fronts wear FAST. I have Pilot Super Sports on my BMW and those have been VERY nice. They tend to grip well before suddenly breaking loose in the rear cornering, but that could just be the characteristics of the car as I'm getting used to her. After getting stock Bridgestones all the time (350Z, BMW 3-series, etc), I love popping on the Michelin tires. I've never had the normal Pilot Sports, just the PS2 and PSS. The Super Sports grip like crazy. My Nitto 555s gripped real good (275 width) on my Z, but it was totaled (not my fault) 25% into the tread and I didn't get to the point of 50% tread where many tires begin to loose their grip to see if it affected the Nitto 555s or not.

[reiver]

Repaired the top (rear bottom seam was coming off)
Glued the stock poorly-placed, no-use cupholders in closed position
Finished the headlights back to a clear/new state (still have the ugly amber)
Got my new spare key in ($$$$) at the dealership. Got my new color-matched keychain (from dealer)
Got to know the car by running through inside and out checking everything to look for problems.
Officially became a major Porsche fan and joined PCA

[black_box]

Wow, I really envy you west coast guys.... drove my Box from LA to SFO on the 1 last year -- Spectacular!

[Mrmaddbrad]

Originally Posted by black_box

Wow, I really envy you west coast guys.... drove my Box from LA to SFO on the 1 last year -- Spectacular!

Oooww, great drive. Highway 1 may be the most fun road . There are parts where you literally can see the other side of the road, where you're about to be driving, full 180s lol

[gazza971]

Installed a Black and Silver Hood Crest & Chrome Boot Decal. - looks awsome.

Will up some pics later

2000 2.7 box Artic Silver with Black Interior.

[jrblackman]

painted the lug bolts silver.

[rem503]

We drove to Amish country south of Cleveland. There are a lot of nice two lane roads and hills. The blind hills are a little scary when a buggy going 16 mph may be on the other side. Lehman's hardware store is always fun.

[paintboy]

Looked at it as I got the lawn mower out to mow the lawns.....looked at it again when I loaded ladders on my truck for work tomorrow.....Left light on in garage so will look at it one more time when I go to turn light off. Wednesday gonna put some miles on....

[j.fro]

A buddy got a set of scales, so my car got weighed today...2650 lbs!! The diet is working. It was a bit heavy on the right rear. Corner balancing comes next.

[Devact]

We've had ours for exactly 1 year yesterday, so on Friday we left St. Louis and drove to Indianapolis to visit friends for the weekend. Today we drove back home. Both ways we stayed off the interstate as much as possible, found some really cool roads and except for 15 minutes of rain, we were top down the whole way!

[JayG]

Had a blast at a local PCA Autocross

http://youtu.be/jzjgZ8i_3fc

[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by JayG

Had a blast at a local PCA Autocross

http://youtu.be/jzjgZ8i_3fc

Sunny day! Looks awrite.

Seen that guy holding the dash once or twice during hard braking.... what brake pads do you use?! I'll soon be doing mine, could do with the same as yours

[JayG]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

Sunny day! Looks awrite.

Seen that guy holding the dash once or twice during hard braking.... what brake pads do you use?! I'll soon be doing mine, could do with the same as yours

Since I just started doing AX, club rules require an Instructor for the first few times. He was a great guy with lots of experience. Drives a 944 spec race car. Yea, he did have to hang on a bit. In one of my earlier runs, my tires were very hot and had gotten a bit slippery, almost spun a few times. I was able to hang on and correct, LOADS of fun. The corner workers were not as happy, lots of cones to reset

It was a wonderful day. Shaved over 5 seconds off my time from the morning practice runs to the afternoon timed runs that counted. Came in 3rd in my class and there was only .45 sec difference between first, second and third. then abort 2.5 sec to fourth. the 3 of us all has 986 S bone stock.

Biggest difference was tires. I have 320 tread-wear and the other guys has much softer/stickier tires, 200 tread-wear. I'm gonna get a 2nd set of wheels and tires for AX and the track soon. Pretty sure with better tires I would have been at least 1 sec faster, probably 2-3

A Pic in hard cornering