What did you do with/to your Boxster today?

[BIGJake111]

Came across a few nice stablemates while participating in a show today.

[ep3_lol]

Originally Posted by BIGJake111

Came across a few nice stablemates while participating in a show today.

I can't believe I missed Eurofest, I hope it was a good time!

[Box4two]

Was too lazy to pull out the hose for a proper wash, but couldn't stand to look at my brake dust covered wheels so I decided to go to the coin wash. Used the "Tri-color " foam ( no brush) sprayed the entire car and wheels, and was shocked how clean the car came out, especially the wheels which usually require hand washing to get the black dust off. My concern is, if this foam is this strong, what does it do to the finish on the car

[seningen]

Our local PCA chapter hosts a HPDE event at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas.

TWS has been purchased by developers and is slated to shut down operations mid-next year as it
becomes transformed into a housing and business district.

Friday night I packed the Boxster and dropped the top for a great starlit 2 hr cruise to College Station. Had 8 great track sessions over the weekend. Packed the Boxster back up and drove home.

Here is one of the more busy sessions of the weekend as I had to deal with more traffic than any of the other sessions. This video catches my only miss shift of the weekend as I come up on blending traffic and loose my focus.

All and all an awesome weekend and a strong showing for a 15 year old car with a 103K miles on her.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10202922633123025&l=1298256119297236095

[steved0x]

Originally Posted by seningen

Our local PCA chapter hosts a HPDE event at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas.

TWS has been purchased by developers and is slated to shut down operations mid-next year as it
becomes transformed into a housing and business district.

Friday night I packed the Boxster and dropped the top for a great starlit 2 hr cruise to College Station. Had 8 great track sessions over the weekend. Packed the Boxster back up and drove home.

Here is one of the more busy sessions of the weekend as I had to deal with more traffic than any of the other sessions. This video catches my only miss shift of the weekend as I come up on blending traffic and loose my focus.

All and all an awesome weekend and a strong showing for a 15 year old car with a 103K miles on her.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10202922633123025&l=1298256119297236095

Awesome, looked like a lot of fun!

[steved0x]

Not exactly today but over the last week:

Removed calipers and rubber brake lines. Painted calipers, and installed new EBC Red Stuff Pads all the way around.





The hardest part: Removing the rubber brake lines from the hard lines. I attempted this job once before with my cheapy Amazon flare wrenches and felt like something was going to break so I stopped. This time I was armed with some used Snap-on flare wrenches I got from eBay. I was able to remove the connection on the car side without too much trouble, other than grunting and swearing, but was able to remove none of the caliper side of the rubber line with them on the car. Once I removed from the car I was only able to remove one. I hit the rest with PBlaster, and then took to my mechanic and he let me clamp the bracket in his big vice, and I was able to get the remaining three. Putting it all back together was no fun, but hopefully I got them with no leaks. The first time I am sure that I didn't tighten them nearly enough as when I was bleeding the back right tire, part way through it started sucking air in through one of the connections. I went through and tightened them all again, remembering how tight they were, and cringing with every fraction of a turn, praying that something didn't give...

Brake feel is superb now, little bit of squealing I think due to the break in period on the pads, with one issue. The pedal is rock hard, but if I stop at a long light and hold the pedal, it is very hard initially, but then very slowly starts to go down. If I release and reapply it is hard again, but then starts to go down. I had my son check and we did not see/hear anything at the fittings for the stainless lines, so I think I may still have a little air in the system? I would think that would cause a soft initial pedal, but I hope it is that.

Got all of this done on Thursday afternoon, Friday I drove down to Daytona and on Saturday participated in an infield autocross and drove 3 touring laps of the road course at Daytona.



This is my favorite picture that my son took, and probably my favorite picture of the car so far.