yikes that has got to be the worst feeling ever... the answer is to not race the last month of the season... btw the storms in the pacifc are the biggest in 40 years right now... a very snowy winter may be in store... tomorrow i'm changing the transx oil... should i be using royal purple ??

 

installed a new ignition coil and ignition control module, took it to the wawa to get some gas...it's running and driving (unlike a week ago) but i'm still worried that it's going to cut out on me, so it's staying hidden for a while in the garage like think out back...haha

 

I've been driving my blue car too much. So today I jumped the red car and drove it to the shop for refreshment. And i'm getting the konis set at medium. Hard was too much for the street, there were times when I though the rear hatch might shatter from the occaisional hard bumps.

 

Mike -- what kind of springs are you using?

 

Tomorrow, I shall attempt to replace my hood shocks.

There are some GREAT posts about replacing those..... we'll see how I do

 

i spent the day watching an lsd get rebuilt from a GT3, and droping a Cayman engine which had snapped a crank right in two,... the heads were practically the only thing left of this motor that was not destroyed... the cayman motors are JUNK, just like the 996 engines... very sad day learning about all the problems with the cayman. bright part of the day was seeing my black calipers back on the car only yellow.

 

towels on the windshield to prevent the hood from contacting, get a helper if you can to hold up the hood as you do one side at a time. only takes like 10 seconds a side.

 

I'm curious: why are they so bad? I've been on the verge of buying a 996 for a while, but the engines put me off. I had kind of been hoping that the Cayman would be the answer.

 

the pre-02 motors had issues with iirc intermediate shafts and rear main seals. a lot of those engines were replaced by the factory. few kinks to work out with the first watercooled design in 40 years

 

all the gt2, gt3 996, 997 engines are fine.

not the regular 996 engines though... bad engines, bad investments... you are basically tossing your money down the drain when you buy one... 997 rattle a little and spend a reasonable amount of time in the shop getting fixed. but at least the engines are very good.

with the cayman... there is a huge debate about what is causing all the failures in the Cayman... seems to be an oiling problem [well, duhhh] but nobody seems to fully understand what the problem is... the shop i was at yesterday has already dropped 6 motors in the past year, and this is just from sprited driving on the street... cranks breaking right in half are common, rod bearing and main bearing failures, etc. with examples having less than 20k miles... blows my cayman turbo thread to smithereens.

 

I did not have excess amounts of fun on the deserted road that leads to my house...that happens to be extra bendy.

 

a GT3 motor costs more than a boxster..

i think if you were going to seriously turbo a cayman youd want to start over on the bottom end anyways. new forged or billet crank, rods, pistons...

or swap in a 996tt engine.

 

wet sumps are part of the problem too... go around a corner on weekend track events and watch your oil pressure needle.

 

i thought they were all drysump.

 

SUCCESS!!

I popped my new hood shocks in the freezer for a few hours to "weaken" them a bit.

Got them both on, by myself, in about 5min.

Its nice to not have to hold the hood up with my head while I work on something.