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Push Button Starter
I finally got around to taking pics of the button I installed a couple monthes ago.
http://aycu13.webshots.com/image/6892/2001182860302120711_rs.jpg http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/9126/2001102504592854167_rs.jpg I still need to make a backing plate, I am thinking aluminum. Anyone got any ideas? |
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Works for me... but here you go.
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Why the need for a push button start?
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hey boggtown,
i think that push start button is sooo cool. so how does it work. do you need a key still. i was thinking about this the other day how ecactly it works. i think you commented in a post last week, and had mentioned something about doing the push start....and it got me thinking. so how does it work? looks great, not sure that you even need a backing plate. but i'm not sitting there in the car, you would know what's best or what it's missing. |
@ boggtown,
You really should post a D.I.Y. on how to do it. If you don't mind me asking why a pust start button, isn't the left hand ignition hard enough for people to figure out how to start the car? |
im pretty sure its just a wow factor.
you still need the key. so now he turns the key with left hand and then push the button with right hand :) 2 hand operation, must look funny but it is kool nontheless, just kinda useless but still kool post up some better pics man, ive been thinking about this myself, but dont know if its a waste of money or not. i think that the key on left side is kool enough |
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Starter Buttons are just the Flavor of the Month right now what with the S2000 and all, and if you like them, that's OK. To me, the ignition system (read Switch) on the Boxster has trouble enough without adding another dimension to it. I'm not knocking boggtown at all, in fact, I think he did a good job of thinking it through and implementing it. It's just not something which would interest me. Good Luck with it though... Happy Motoring!... Jim'99 |
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its not really the flavour of the month, its been in car magazines for over 10 years. i remember when i had my old honda, i was going to put one in there. if anything its a honda flavour, not something new, not something people are just jumping on now.
i just took a spin in my cousins new 07 bmw, and he had a start button. so cool. its actually new for bmw, about time they caught up. |
Ya, its just for looks, but the girls sure do like starting my car from their seat. All you do is tap into the yellow wire and the red/white wire from the ignition (look at ignition replacement instructions on here). There are like 3 red/white wires but I think they all work.
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That is a great innovation from the 1940s.
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Earlier than that. My very 1st car was a 1939 Ford Coupe. It had a starter button on the floor. Switch on the ignition with the key, depress the clutch, and then press the starter button with your foot to engage the starter motor... Happy Motoring!... Jim'99 |
i get the start switch...but a race mode? how the hell would that work?
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My first car was an English 2 seat sports car called a Sumbeam Alpine. Think it was a 1960. Cost $250. No key as the ignition switch was broken. Came with a screwdriver.
Went to the wrecking yard and got an ignition switch from an old Jag. The Jag had a dash starter button so I got that as well. Put both in the Sunbeam. |
I dont know about those race mode buttons, all I got was their engine start button. Cost $40 though.
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Toolpants. My first car was a '75 TR6. Same deal with the ignition switch. Only I used the key from a '77 KZ1000 motorcycle. The exhaust rusted off the poor car so my buddy's and I used the 4into 1 exhaust pipe from the KZ100. 16 years old and broke? You do what you gotta do.. Joe |
I guess I don't understand the start-button fad. Why add another step to starting the car?
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Yes, I remember those too! The dash button was hailed as a great innovation. Then there was the key start. So, now we go BACKWARDS for our bling! |
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Some one correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a throw-back to the ol' racing days. Similar to why Posrche has the key on the left side (which is where the button is supposed to go -like the S2K), it's for racing. It's quicker/easier than turing a key, and being on the left side (on a left side drive car of course) allows the opposite hand to be on the stick.
I wanna say the Honda S2000 brought this back. The Viper SRT10 has it, but it's on the wrong side. Then luxury cars such as BMW, Lexus, & Mercedes made it a convenience feature -key need not be inserted to start the vehicle. It's pretty cool on some Mercedes, where the button is on top of the gear selector. On some cars it's a throwback, others it's convenient feature. |
what i also like is the MB key, that big fat thing, just put it in ther and turn and let go, then car starts, no need to hold for that second for it to turn over, and it looks kool
this thing, 1st time i saw it i tought the key pops out http://blogs.edmunds.com/.ee92d56/cm...osure..ee92d57 and then also there is Saab and their whole turning the car on thing :) |
bat smoke
Now all you need is a Bat Smoke toggle. . . :dance: Seriously, whatever fancys you. I think the new BMW 5 series have this starter button now.
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Ya, the only thing Id do button wise is buy an s2000 button, which would be another $40. But at least all the wirings done, itd be a simple button swap.
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Why not go ahead and get a "self destruct" button... lol. A "Panty Remover" button, along with "NOS" or "Go Baby Go" would be funny.
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RMS FAIL button?
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actually its three things: turn key, engage clutch and repeat but pull floor matt out from under clutch. I need new floor mats! or a hot glue gun to get the velcro to stick to the back of the floor matt again.
The push button thing is not at a fad. Been on the S2000 for nearly 7 years now. The Aston Martins have it as well, those cars have maybe the coolest sounding engine start up ever. If it were a factory option on my 986S I would have gone for it, like the soon to be installed one-touch softop button. I always thought a spoiler button would be cool too, does the spoiler go up and down if you are in and out of 70mph or whatever it is? I don't understand why cars still have key locked steering column and why German cars require you to depress the cluch. A locking steering column is nothing a determined car their can't get around very quickly. I'd like to see cars progress into the 21st century and have a numerical code that unlocks the steering and a push button for engine start up. The whole ignition process on the Pcar seems very antiquated. http://www.automobilemag.com/reviews...ter_Button.jpg http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/1...20092568-E.jpg |
I wish my Boxster started like my wife's Mercedes. Just like Djomlas says, insert key, turn, and the car does the rest.
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COOL picture, PL. Thanks! I wish our cars have recessed door handles like this car too. |
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To have to put the key in the dash, turn it, THEN push a button? Makes no sense. The spoiler has some hysteresis in it. It goes up at 70, but goes back down at some lower speed, so it's not going up and down constantly. One zip tie and five minutes of your time can yield you a car that starts without pressing the clutch. I know, because I did it to my car. :D (oh, no "clicky clicky" when shifting, either!) |
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> Starter Buttons are just the Flavor of the Month > right now what with the S2000 and all, and if > you like them, that's OK. Yea, I agree. And who'd like to be associated with Honda anyways?! Hence, I went with something slightly different for my Eunos roadster: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~peer/roadster-starter.html If I now only could build up my courage to do this hack also for the Box... -- peer |
i made my boxster not use the clutch for starting, took me a minute. so now i just turn the key and beast starts up...that would be a good thing to do if you have a stat engine button
one zip tie did the trick :dance: |
ok so does that no clutch-start hack add more longevity to the clutch?
how is it done? |
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