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138,385 miles on the clock! Great job of driving your Porsche.
LOL, that was the previous owner. Mine is the 1740mi (2800km). I've only had it for a little over a month. Only 3000hrs on the engine however, PO really did like his road trips.
Congrats to you for using it! Keep it up, you're an encouragement to all the garage queens who think these cars are collectibles and/or they can't be used in winter.
Congrats to you for using it! Keep it up, you're an encouragement to all the garage queens who think these cars are collectibles and/or they can't be used in winter.
I prefer the term garage King, thank you very much
After a few days with my new Alpine S2 speaker set (Atoto S8 navi, driving non-Bose ASK amp), I've settled on some general equalizer settings.
Regardless of what sound profile you want though, the Alpine S2s are a great compromise of price, performance, and ease-of-installation.
The sound performance is an amazing change over the OEM speakers, a combination of both their age and general low quality to start (paper cones!).
With the Android head unit equalizer settings you can rattle the glass with bone-shaking bass, or make your ears bleed with sharp high frequencies from the dash tweeters.
While there are a number of other options, they are either more expensive (80/20 rule coming into play perhaps), require more mods (such as for the 8-inch bases, and possible door cards), or amplifier changes as well.
The S2s are 4 Ohm, and generally match the physical attributes of the OEM speakers; tweeters require some small Dremeling, 4-inch mids bolt straight in, and 8-inch woofers need the base mod well documented elsewhere (removing 'snowflake' and smoothing housing).
Connections too are equally easy, with the tweeters needing either a commercially available adapter, or OEM plug cutting off and regular tails installed. The mids are the same, needing new tails to terminate on speakers. The woofers just resoldering the existing connector wires in the same sequence as the OEM 6.5-inch.
Full details, including wider comment, lots of pics, questions, and answers over on the 997 forum here.
It is a custom molded one-of-one 991.2 GT3RS based FRP bumper for my car. This bumper weighs less than 7kg.
I believe my car is the only one in existence w this bumper design attempted and was a P.I.T.A, and costed a ridiculous amount to get done.
The bumper fabrication took 6 months from start to finish and looks OEM. I went about $3k over intended budget for this project. I love it!
The Speedster Heritage Anniversary decals will be applied later in the summer once the paint has properly cured and car is out of storage.
It is a custom molded one-of-one 991.2 GT3RS based FRP bumper for my car. This bumper weighs less than 7kg.
I believe my car is the only one in existence w this bumper design attempted and was a P.I.T.A, and costed a ridiculous amount to get done.
The bumper fabrication took 6 months from start to finish and looks OEM. I went about $3k over intended budget for this project. I love it!
The Speedster Heritage Anniversary decals will be applied later in the summer once the paint has properly cured and car is out of storage.
Looks great! Who do you go to have something like this done?
Looks great! Who do you go to have something like this done?
I couldn't find anyone to make this bumper for me in North America: I wanted a 3d scan off an actual 991.2 GT3RS or Speedster or a cup car and then to use autocad to modify the dimension of the scan to meet the 987.1's mounting points and 3d print a mold.
I also reached out to some bodykit suppliers in China (that already supply GT4 style bumpers) and they wanted me to order a minimum of 50 bumpers order for then to agree to create this new mold.
Then I was going to use foam to carve and sculpt a bumper using my friend's GT3RS as a donor for the mold..and lay fiberglass do it that way;
If this hadn't worked out, I was considering getting the same 997.2 GT3 bumper that Eric Preciado has on his Cayman R build.
However, at the end I found a company in Malaysia that does custom bodykits for Mclarens and Lamborghinis and finally engaged them for this one-off bumper and found my answer.
Once ready, the bumper and side fees only cost about $800, but the shipping to North America from Malaysia was $2400+ (mix of sea ship and ground train cargo transport).
I then had a local specialist bodyshop that builds showcars do the prep and install. It required weeks of further fabrication/ shaving/ minor patching to get the many imperfections on the FRP mold fixed, and it to align and fit perfectly. Had to fabricate custom brackets and mounts. Those extended labour hours didn't help w the bill. But i'm OCD.
There was a specific vision I was going for. The exhaust setup I am running sounds just like a GT3, and now paired w the new bumper and some other small mods the way the car makes you feel is undescribable.
Initially I wondered why no one has ever tried a custom bumper like this. I guess no one was dumb enough to spend 6 times the price of what a bumper should have cost to get this done. Merry Christmas.
Last edited by Fresh.Sizzle; 12-21-2023 at 01:08 AM.
I couldn't find anyone to make this bumper for me in North America: I wanted a 3d scan off an actual 991.2 GT3RS or Speedster or a cup car and then to use autocad to modify the dimension of the scan to meet the 987.1's mounting points and 3d print a mold.
I also reached out to some bodykit suppliers in China (that already supply GT4 style bumpers) and they wanted me to order a minimum of 50 bumpers order for then to agree to create this new mold.
Then I was going to use foam to carve and sculpt a bumper using my friend's GT3RS as a donor for the mold..and lay fiberglass do it that way;
If this hadn't worked out, I was considering getting the same 997.2 GT3 bumper that Eric Preciado has on his Cayman R build.
However, at the end I found a company in Malaysia that does custom bodykits for Mclarens and Lamborghinis and finally engaged them for this one-off bumper and found my answer.
Once ready, the bumper and side fees only cost about $800, but the shipping to North America from Malaysia was $2400+ (mix of sea ship and ground train cargo transport).
I then had a local specialist bodyshop that builds showcars do the prep and install. It required weeks of further fabrication/ shaving/ minor patching to get the many imperfections on the FRP mold fixed, and it to align and fit perfectly. Had to fabricate custom brackets and mounts. Those extended labour hours didn't help w the bill. But i'm OCD.
There was a specific vision I was going for. The exhaust setup I am running sounds just like a GT3, and now paired w the new bumper and some other small mods the way the car makes you feel is undescribable.
Initially I wondered why no one has ever tried a custom bumper like this. I guess no one was dumb enough to spend 6 times the price of what a bumper should have cost to get this done. Merry Christmas.
WoW! Incredible!
Any chance on giving us all the contact info of the folks in Malaysia?
12-09-2023, 03:56 PM
