Good article in "Excellence" Magazine

[Brucelee]

Starting on p 165 9/05 issue of Excellence, there is a very nice write up on how a Boxster based racing series may develop. Lots of nice tech issues on brakes, weight, etc. that you track types may find interesting.

Directly following that, the tech guy covers the process for changing plugs in the Box. Again, good stuff.

Also, full tech review of the Cayman is included.

Finally, the Market Update covers Boxster pricing of late.

All very Boxster specific.

[limoncello]

And a Boxster racing series would have to bring more aftermarket performance goodies. I'm all for it.
Say, wasn't that a yellow box in Excellence?

[Rail26]

yep, sure was. Kind of looked like lemonjello.

[rhino]

hi, I am buying a 2000 2.7 boxster privately and need some advice.
the car has no service history and 47000miles or 75000 klm.
it was never damaged or crashed and is in general excellant condition-what should i be looking for???uk author.

[blinkwatt]

Try to have a Pre Purchase Inspection. If you are not going to do that at least have a Carmax report ran on it,scan over tires to see if they are mismatched,check for manuals(all of them),ask for records/receipts,see if it has had a RMS failure before, make sure it is up to date on recalls and most importantly make you enjoy it!

[Brucelee]

Do a search here on the topic.

TONS of good posts on the subject.

A PPI and a Car Fax are MINIMUM standards in my book.

Good luck!

[986sport]

I bought my 03 Boxster with 33K miles from a Porsche dealer. It was a new car trade bought originally at the dealer. I had the name of the previous owner and all the records. The car was Porsche certified, plus a few months remaining on the new car warranty. Porsche replaced one of the front headlamp assemblies when I found it was fogging when I washed the car. That's $1000 saved.
I have had to get a new battery this winter, not covered, but not unexpected and inexpensive. Otherwise, everything perfect.

The bottom line is I buy my Porsches at a Porsche dealer, and Porsche certified.
It costs the dealer $1500 or so for the certification, so they only do it on their best cars. And my dealer prices are very competitive with private sales.

The magazine seems to be very interesting to me as a beginner in driving and familiarizing my car.I'm still on a learning process on how everything goes with a car.I will look forward reading the whole article.

[Qckslvr]

Ok so now the next question.

With a header.... Use a traditional header gasket? Or use a nice new OEM stamped steel manifold gasket.

I know from experience with Fords that a header gasket is a HUGE no no when using OEM manifolds. It will cause manifold damage, and broken studs. This is due to the "header gasket" blocking heat transfer between the manifold and head.

I also might be overthinking this