What did you do with/to your Boxster today?

[Zzorro]

I just did the coolant tank. That was fun.............

[Boatin]

Painted the name badge on the boot lid (trunk ?) as it was almost all black,

[Lew]

I just added the Porsche Letters three days ago. I wanted to keep the letters the same color as the Boxster S emblem. Some on the forum have added both in chrome.

[512TXS]

Originally Posted by Lew

I just added the Porsche Letters three days ago. I wanted to keep the letters the same color as the Boxster S emblem. Some on the forum have added both in chrome.

Looks nice! Makes it look like a newer model.

[Jager]

Originally Posted by Zzorro

I just did the coolant tank. That was fun.............

Congrats... Not an easy task. I have helped friends with their coolant tank but haven't had the joy of doing mine.

[Zzorro]

Originally Posted by Jager

Congrats... Not an easy task. I have helped friends with their coolant tank but haven't had the joy of doing mine.

Probably the wrong thread, but why not just drill out all of the connections at the black plastic flange that bolts on to the firewall and connect the ~6" long hoses behind the firewall to the hoses running to the coolant tank with with barbed hose joiners and spring clamps. Would be just a heck of a lot easier to replace these tanks. But I supposed these were never supposed to be replaced.

[Brian in Tucson]

Originally Posted by Zzorro

Probably the wrong thread, but why not just drill out all of the connections at the black plastic flange that bolts on to the firewall and connect the ~6" long hoses behind the firewall to the hoses running to the coolant tank with with barbed hose joiners and spring clamps. Would be just a heck of a lot easier to replace these tanks. But I supposed these were never supposed to be replaced.

If you've ever done one, it becomes obvious that nobody at the factory ever thought or cared if anyone ever changes the tank. The spring clamps are put on so that you can't hardly get to them to compress them, the hoses that go from the bulkhead manifold are welded to the metal tubes on the passenger side and are fairly painful to get to. I replaced all those small diameter hoses with bulk stock hose, used the spring clamps over again to attach to the bulkhead manifold and put it back in preassembled, so that all was necessary was to connect the oil tube, the oil dipstick tube, the oil cooler hose and the two feed lines to their prospective destinations in the engine compartment. Any coolant hoses in the engine compartment got 1/4" drive spiral hose clamps. Still not easy, but a lot easier.

Plan on replacing the oil filler tube and the dipstick tube, both mine kinda crumbled.

[ShortRound]

Originally Posted by Zzorro

Probably the wrong thread, but why not just drill out all of the connections at the black plastic flange that bolts on to the firewall and connect the ~6" long hoses behind the firewall to the hoses running to the coolant tank with with barbed hose joiners and spring clamps. Would be just a heck of a lot easier to replace these tanks. But I supposed these were never supposed to be replaced.

This is a great idea. Not stock but will make your (any future owners) lives easier and less expensive. Knock wood I don't have to have this done, but I will go this route should the need arise.

[512TXS]

Originally Posted by Jager

Congrats... Not an easy task. I have helped friends with their coolant tank but haven't had the joy of doing mine.

Awesome job!