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Maintain them and they can be great extended use cars. 👍
True fact! I purchased my '93 Carrera with 42K on the clock, drove it eleven years and 100,000 miles and the only work I had done on it was the normal wear-and-tear stuff. My 981 is proving to be just as reliable.
Bought my 06 cayman s with 57K 3 yrs ago and just turned over 103K. It's just too fun to drive to let it sit in the garage! I have done a few things to it, but really just general maintenance.
installed (6 hours) the numeric shifter on my 2007 2.7l gen 1 works great. used middle hole, thinking i might want the super short shift. there was a oticeable difference even on a shifter with only 30,000 miles on it. also bought a new new gauge cluster face for future installation and added a litre of oil. i left it a little low, intentionally, after a recent oil change. didn't want to overfill, so needed to top it off. still showing a half litre short.
also fixed a rattle tied to the RPM of the engine that i thought might be a con rod. turns out it might have been a side undertray that was loose due to a missing plastic nut. anyway, i noticed it while under the car about a week ago and bought ten of the 10MM plastic nuts used to fasten the plastic undertrays to the frame. when i tapped the side undertray it sounded just like the rattle that varied with the RPM of the engine. interesting that something tied to the frame rattled at the same rate as the engine RPM. but i suppose that the engine is connected to the frame that is connected to the undertary (...and the music goes round 'n round.... and it comes out here...).
Last edited by hueyhoolihan; 07-15-2021 at 09:40 PM.
Tuesday I took my 2012 Black Edition to Lime Rock and had a track day. What fun to have an instructor watching the other hot cars and keeping me safe while reaching the limits of this car. We would run 6-8 laps and take a break to discuss. On about the 30th and 32nd lap Bob got me to push the car enough that the rear twitched negotiating Big Bend coming down from 105 mph to "I don't know what" b/c really, my eyes were extremely busy not looking inside the car and what amounts to PASM immediately corrected. What fun. I didn't even get into Sport mode. Maybe next time.
Last edited by SteveG; 07-17-2021 at 12:28 AM.
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went over to the garage and retrieved my cell phone that i left in the car yesterday...
oh, and bought a Sprint Booster, hoping to reduce response time. i know, i know. it's not a power enhancement. it's usability i'm after.
if i can get the same response by pressing the accelerator one inch that i was getting from pressing it two inches (which is what i think it does) then i'll be satisfied. similar to tightening up the steering ratio i suppose.
Swapped in actual black vents instead of my test color plastidip ones. And put in the Lloyds mats I ordered that came in today.
Took one look at them and ordered a different set. The navy blue with silver trim and lettering didn’t look good in my gray interior like I thought it would. $150 gone. Oh well.
Swapped in actual black vents instead of my test color plastidip ones. And put in the Lloyds mats I ordered that came in today.
Took one look at them and ordered a different set. The navy blue with silver trim and lettering didn’t look good in my gray interior like I thought it would. $150 gone. Oh well.
maybe you can find a dallas cowboys fan with a porsche you could unload them on....
oh, and bought a Sprint Booster, hoping to reduce response time. i know, i know. it's not a power enhancement. it's usability i'm after.
if i can get the same response by pressing the accelerator one inch that i was getting from pressing it two inches (which is what i think it does) then i'll be satisfied. similar to tightening up the steering ratio i suppose.
I would like your impressions of the Sprint Booster after you've put a couple hundred miles on it!
went over to the garage and retrieved my cell phone that i left in the car yesterday...
oh, and bought a Sprint Booster, hoping to reduce response time. i know, i know. it's not a power enhancement. it's usability i'm after.
if i can get the same response by pressing the accelerator one inch that i was getting from pressing it two inches (which is what i think it does) then i'll be satisfied. similar to tightening up the steering ratio i suppose.
That's exactly what it does. I just turned mine back on after disabling it for a few months (initially turned it off for a track day). I do prefer it with the SB enabled on the street, but at a very low setting (green 2). Any higher and its too jerky to me. It helps make throttle blipping a little easier and makes the car feel peppier at low revs.
I would like your impressions of the Sprint Booster after you've put a couple hundred miles on it!
starting in early august, soon after i install the SB, i'll be driving from central coast california to ohio and then back so i'll be having plenty of miles on it in a few weeks.
i plan on finding something i can live with as far as how much "boost" i want and store the remote device. i can't imagine why i'd want to be changing it on any kind of regular basis. i don't need or want any more gadgets in the car than there already are....
Last edited by hueyhoolihan; 07-20-2021 at 05:20 PM.
Removed heater flap and rewrapped with LDPE closed cell foam.
No more black foam - yeah!
Black foam actually not too bad - probably because this is a southern car, Removing the existing, crumbling, sticky foam. Flap with new polyethylene foam.
07-14-2021, 07:58 PM
also bought a new new gauge cluster face for future installation and added a litre of oil. i left it a little low, intentionally, after a recent oil change. didn't want to overfill, so needed to top it off. still showing a half litre short.
