What are your Boxster goals???

[j.fro]

Having read/contributed to a recent exhaust thread, I thought I'd throw this up for giggles. Some of us see our Boxsters as a potential investment. Some of us plan to drive the thing until the wheels fall off and die with it. Many cycle through cars every few years and it's just nice to own for a bit. A few strip it bare and go Porsche Club Racing. What's your take on this marvelous little car???
Yeah, I think this counts a "Performance" topic!

For me, my goal is the GT3 soul in a 986 body. I need to be able to drive it on the street to events and for fun. I don't care so much about comfort/luxury. I want handling, speed, and safety (on any given day that order may change). My car has 130,000 miles on it now, I'm 41, and I'd like to think my surviving relatives would fight over it when I'm dead...in at least another 41 years.
YAAA-freakin-HOOO

[JAAY]

I am with you on all that. I like to keep my car clean and the paint in great shape. I like that people have no clue what year it is or what it is. I have coil overs in it and have a gt3 front swaybar in my garage. One day I will get some tarrets and install it. Going to do the h&r rear sway bar and tarrets too. I would love gt3 power but my 3.4 is great fun in the car now. Huge upgrade from the supercharged 2.5 I have no reason or want to get rid of my box. I want to keep it as sort of being in my collection of cars. In the past I would get board of a car and need a new fix. I just see the box as always being in my garage next to something else.

[vath2001]

My Boxster goal?
To drive it. I have no goals with a car, its a car and I drive them. I don't own museum pieces. My rims are dirty from brake dust, the interior need vacuumed and the dent my the DS rear wheel fender will always be there.
If I have a goal it is to keep my repairs one stop ahead of the tow truck.

[cvhs18472]

My goal is to get 150k on the car before I think about a replacement engine. At 10K per year that will make me well over 70 and I will just replace it with an upgraded 2.5. I'm 1/2 stupid now, in 10 years I won't need any more power than I can't handle on the open road now. Ed

[landrovered]

I am 48 in July and really love my 3.6, I agree with all of the above and have a long list of improvements that I want to do to make the car achieve it's true potential but as a road/track day car.

I would like to experience racing and plan to purchase a cup car before I am 50. I dream of running Petite LeMans but I am not stupid enough to think that I am that caliber of driver so team owner would suit me just fine. Then by 60 I want a car at LeMans.

[Johnny Danger]

After all of the time, energy and money that went into modifying my boxster, not even death will do us part. In fact, I've made arrangements with these guys to install handles all around for what I call the ultimate or finite mod !

www.casketroyale.com

[ekam]

Well my last car lasted 12 years before I sold it so I don't think I'll be getting rid of my 986 anytime soon.

Yes it doesn't have enough power compare to the big boys but this is like telling a small person he's small. Who can say they've taken their stock car to the track with no issues and drive it in the winter at the same time?

I'm almost half the age of most guys here and I'm glad I got a non-S so I can learn from it and lay the groundwork for an upgrade path. This is my first Pcar and certainly won't be my last.

No I still don't want a 911 but if I were to get one it'd have to be a 996 GT3. And get this, of all the PCA fun runs I've been to a lot of the guys that come out have Boxsters... and that says a lot about who's having more fun on the twisties.

[BYprodriver]

Originally Posted by j.fro

Having read/contributed to a recent exhaust thread, I thought I'd throw this up for giggles. Some of us see our Boxsters as a potential investment. Some of us plan to drive the thing until the wheels fall off and die with it. Many cycle through cars every few years and it's just nice to own for a bit. A few strip it bare and go Porsche Club Racing. What's your take on this marvelous little car???
Yeah, I think this counts a "Performance" topic!

For me, my goal is the GT3 soul in a 986 body. I need to be able to drive it on the street to events and for fun. I don't care so much about comfort/luxury. I want handling, speed, and safety (on any given day that order may change). My car has 130,000 miles on it now, I'm 41, and I'd like to think my surviving relatives would fight over it when I'm dead...in at least another 41 years.
YAAA-freakin-HOOO

Great Post. My plan somewhat mirrors yours. Just removed my 3.2 S engine to see what I can do for some torque. Don't forsee selling until I am too feeble to shift myself & can afford a PDK!

[DANMKII]

My porsche boxster is the only car I currently own that I never intend to modify.

My plans are to keep it mint, and original. Driving it often while keeping repairs at MINIMUM. My car is a 2003 with only 9,500 miles, but I dont intend for it to be a garage queen either. Well packaged car right out of the factory

[mptoledo]

My goals are simple.
First: Never break down
Second: Always look good
Third: see a lot of

[Topless]

Goals? Track records in stock class.

I bought this car 5 years ago to drive. The few mods I have added are strictly to the rule book in BSX class. The car performs very well in near stock trim, doesn't need to be flogged to turn some quick laps on Saturday, and I can knock the top down and take a pretty girl for a joyful drive to the beach on Sunday. With a careful wash and polish it still looks great after 12 years. Best sports car bang for the buck I think.

So far, so good.

[Lil bastard]

My goal is to keep the shiny side up - ▲

And to keep the Dealer's, Service Manager's and Parts Manager's kids from getting an Ivy League education!

Cheers!

[dennis]

JAAY, where did you get that fin? I have been looking for one, and I have noticed there are a few diffedrent types.

[texomawaves]

Keeping mine pure. Why bastardize it? I think anything else is a nascar wannabe

[PlayersExpress]

Originally Posted by texomawaves

Keeping mine pure. Why bastardize it? I think anything else is a nascar wannabe

Ferdinand Porsche once said “I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself."

In light of that spirit... each person that wants to modify or change their car is BUILDING their own DREAM sports car.

Nascar wannabe my ass, now if you put a big 3 on the doors, slapped a chevy or ford logo on it, or dropped a NA V8 in the box.... then that is bastardizing it.

[texomawaves]

Make sure the number 3 is slanted backwards (or whichever way you're not going), jack up the rear end, crager mags, oversized tires, cherry bomb mufflers, window tint, holly double pumper carb, hooker headers, fuzzy dice, after-market stickers on the glass... and all the other **************** you'd see back in the '70s

just kidding around with you

[kpm]

My wife and I have been hospitalized for 4 days each last week (seperate issues) and today we took our 01 S to the Dr.'s office . On the last corner before our driveway my wife said softly "I love this car"

That was my Boxster goal.

[grantsfo]

My Boxster goal is to break the 2000 lb mark. Only have another 100 lbs to lose and I still have all steel quarter panels, doors and front fenders.

[PlayersExpress]

Originally Posted by grantsfo

My Boxster goal is to break the 2000 lb mark. Only have another 100 lbs to lose and I still have all steel quarter panels, doors and front fenders.

If the driver looses a few pounds too you could raise your goal to 2005 or 2010lbs and have the same end result

[grantsfo]

Originally Posted by PlayersExpress

If the driver looses a few pounds too you could raise your goal to 2005 or 2010lbs and have the same end result

LOL! I could raise goal to 2100 if I counted driver weight reduction opportunities! :troll: