Jack stand under the wheels and not the jackpoints
 

I'd like to be able to do some maintenance on my 996 but most of the tasks require working from the bottom.

Getting conventional jack stands underneath at the jack points requires jacking at some point other than the jack point.

I'm looking for a jack stand that has a "U" shape that would "cup" the wheel/tire so that you jack the car up and slip the aforedescribed jack stands under the wheels.

Does such an animal exist or do you just have to make the 4 of them out of wood & cinder block?

There is a point on the center of the engine about 15 cm from the back bumper. Right in the centere of the car to jack up.

Go to renntech.org they have a full description of how to for this procedure it is easy to do, basically you jack the car from the rear jack point using a floor jack until the front is far enough up to get the stand under, lower that side go to the other side and do the same thing, now that you have the front done go to rear and as stated before there is a jack point on the bottom of the engine, it is foreward of the exaust dead center and is a small square casting on the bottom of the engine place the floor jack carefully there so that you are not putting pressure on anything else and just lift the rear up and place your stands under the lift points, it seems a bit strange when you do the front for the first time, but I've done this lots and never had a problem.
good luck

Towing companies use jacks like you are describing I haven't seen them for sale anywhere though.

I've heard that people have issues rupturing their engine mounts when jacking up the rear from the engine. Just make sure your comfortable with this before using it.

That probably means they needed new engine mounts. The mounts are designed to easily hold the weight of the rear end of the car.

Think about how much force gets applied to them in hard driving versus lifting the car in your garage.

As to the original question, you could just buy 4 of the drive on ramps, jack up the car and slide them under the tires.

Jackpoint jack stands. Pricy little buggers

just buy a set of rhino ramps and you can dispense with the jacking all together.

I bought OTC 1532 racing jack and 2 OTC 1582 stands via Amazon. That worked for me. Both can be seen on this page...
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...l_60ijre1wyn_b

MaxJax portable twin post lift:
http://www.maxjaxusa.com/faqs/product.html
http://www.maxjaxusa.com/features.html
http://reviews.costco.com/2070/11589...s/reviews.html
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product...No=1&N=4001192 5000109&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&Mo=1


http://www.gesusa.com/Dannmar-MaxJax...FUZN4Aodpj0r2g

https://rennlist.com/forums/997-gt2-...ackstands.html

Here's a thread for opinions and reactions.

https://rennlist.com/forums/996-gt2-...beginners.html

For your information. :-)

Yes certainly seems to be the way to go if you are a handy guy at DIY work and have a large enough wide garage. It would pay for itself on the first decent sized DIY job on the car. Not for the normal sized garages. More on the industrial lines. Costco have it for $2300.. http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product...atchallpartial

I have a smallish garage 21' wide 8' high. I got this for ~$1650 in a group buy in 2010. I like it because once you have drilled the holes and placed the concrete inserts you can set it up in ~15 minutes and take it down and roll it into the corner to store it.
Once you have one you will be jacking it just to clean the bottom and look for things to work on/learn about.

Man that is some sweet set up you have there. I can't justify it for the work I have done so far on my car, but my god what a great thing to have. Had I known of this set up, before I decided to set about DIY on the car a year ago, I would have defo gone for this set up especially at that price. That would have cut my work time down tremendously, Not to mention no body pains from cramping down low working on brake pads and bleeding and oil changes. I believe that the fuel filter for the 99 job is in the middle under the car. A job which could be done easily with that set up. Then theres the plug change and muffler removal. All easy stuff if you can get to them. You got me thinking hard now.:rockon: