Meridian Boxster Rebuild Project '24

[Smallblock454]

Hopefully you can bring it back to life with manageable effort. Fingers crossed.

[Homeoboxter]

Originally Posted by Smallblock454

Hopefully you can bring it back to life with manageable effort. Fingers crossed.

Thanks!!

[Homeoboxter]

I jacked up the car and fixed the top in service mode.



Subwoofer. This was an expensive feature back in 2002.



Lots of dust on the engine, otherwise everything looks great.



Nice front view also. I haven's seen such a clean head in a long time.





This mess on the underside is unexpected at this mileage. Looks like a Toyota at 500.000 miles, lol. Most likely we have an RMS leak that has not started recently...



This is also something you wouldn't want to see when pulling the plugs..



I wondered a bit what to do at this point. Shall I pull the head cover with the motor in the car on that side where I have the error code and see what's going on with the timing, or just pull the engine and inspect things on the engine stand which is a lot more convenient? I opted for the latter.

I took these guys off just in case someone gets tempted to take a peek under the jacked up car at night. My neighbor's cats got stolen on the driveway last year.



Two shots of the engine from underneath without cats and driveshafts.

[old911doc]

I see that the engine still has the plastic-cup oil filter thingy. Those sometimes become extremely tight, requiring, I estimate, 250+ ft-lbs to remove. I suggest you remove that from the engine before you remove the engine or transmission from the chassis. Exerting that much force on an engine on a stand only serves to move the stand across your shop. IMHO that plastic cup is the second-worse thing Porsche ever did, after locating the immobilizer module under the driver’s seat.
Oh, also: to remove the oil filter cup, use the aluminum filter wrench branded as Craftsman and sold through Lowe’s, but be aware that you likely won’t be able to remove the cap wrench from the plastic cup once you get it off.
Good luck with project!

[Homeoboxter]

Originally Posted by old911doc

I see that the engine still has the plastic-cup oil filter thingy. Those sometimes become extremely tight, requiring, I estimate, 250+ ft-lbs to remove. I suggest you remove that from the engine before you remove the engine or transmission from the chassis. Exerting that much force on an engine on a stand only serves to move the stand across your shop. IMHO that plastic cup is the second-worse thing Porsche ever did, after locating the immobilizer module under the driver’s seat.
Oh, also: to remove the oil filter cup, use the aluminum filter wrench branded as Craftsman and sold through Lowe’s, but be aware that you likely won’t be able to remove the cap wrench from the plastic cup once you get it off.
Good luck with project!

Thanks for the tip, I never had a problem with loosening that cap. A kit is available to convert it to a spin-on type filter and then you can choose different filter materials with different filtering pore diameters.