What did you do to your 996TT today?
04-11-2018, 01:07 PM
#3856
Three Wheelin'
I installed H&R springs with B8 shocks. H&R springs are way low, below GT2 specs. I installed custom spacers and brought it up to the lower end of the GT2 spec. I do have a difficult driveway and so does Starbucks. The main problem with my last lip was a dead raccoon that appeared from under the car in front of me and i could not dodge it. My daughter's dog will not be nearly as impressed with the sent of the front of my car as he has been.
04-11-2018, 02:01 PM
#3857
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04-11-2018, 04:33 PM
#3860
Have you guys seen the urethane lips? If so, has anyone tried one? I think the idea of having something constructed out of something that's not as brittle as the stock ones sounds like a good idea. I run an OEM gt2 lip on mine, and it's just a matter of time before the inevitable happens.
04-11-2018, 05:15 PM
#3862
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^^ Awesome. Definitely on the to-do list one of these days.
04-11-2018, 06:36 PM
#3863
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04-11-2018, 07:21 PM
#3864
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Because my wife tagged the lip on a curb and damaged the lip.
Why do you ask?
My original lip made it about 14 years without damage. I'm about two years into the new Porsche lip without any damage to it. I've had the car since new (that's over 16 years and three months, with 47,375 miles as of 6:00 EDT today), and I'm on my second lip. The road-curb design at my driveway entrance presents an opportunity to scrape the 996 Turbo's front lip every time this area is navigated if the driver does not take care in adjusting the approach line, so there is a lip scrape threat every time I leave or come back to my garage. Otherwise, I avoid questionable elevation changes, unless I'm sure that I can negotiate the potential threat with an approach angle that will avoid scrapping the front lip.
Does this help you out?
Why do you ask?
My original lip made it about 14 years without damage. I'm about two years into the new Porsche lip without any damage to it. I've had the car since new (that's over 16 years and three months, with 47,375 miles as of 6:00 EDT today), and I'm on my second lip. The road-curb design at my driveway entrance presents an opportunity to scrape the 996 Turbo's front lip every time this area is navigated if the driver does not take care in adjusting the approach line, so there is a lip scrape threat every time I leave or come back to my garage. Otherwise, I avoid questionable elevation changes, unless I'm sure that I can negotiate the potential threat with an approach angle that will avoid scrapping the front lip.
Does this help you out?
04-11-2018, 11:14 PM
#3865
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Because my wife tagged the lip on a curb and damaged the lip.
Why do you ask?
My original lip made it about 14 years without damage. I'm about two years into the new Porsche lip without any damage to it. I've had the car since new (that's over 16 years and three months, with 47,375 miles as of 6:00 EDT today), and I'm on my second lip. The road-curb design at my driveway entrance presents an opportunity to scrape the 996 Turbo's front lip every time this area is navigated if the driver does not take care in adjusting the approach line, so there is a lip scrape threat every time I leave or come back to my garage. Otherwise, I avoid questionable elevation changes, unless I'm sure that I can negotiate the potential threat with an approach angle that will avoid scrapping the front lip.
Does this help you out?
Why do you ask?
My original lip made it about 14 years without damage. I'm about two years into the new Porsche lip without any damage to it. I've had the car since new (that's over 16 years and three months, with 47,375 miles as of 6:00 EDT today), and I'm on my second lip. The road-curb design at my driveway entrance presents an opportunity to scrape the 996 Turbo's front lip every time this area is navigated if the driver does not take care in adjusting the approach line, so there is a lip scrape threat every time I leave or come back to my garage. Otherwise, I avoid questionable elevation changes, unless I'm sure that I can negotiate the potential threat with an approach angle that will avoid scrapping the front lip.
Does this help you out?
You really are exaclty what I suspected you were.
04-12-2018, 01:53 AM
#3866
Drifting
I kissed mine good bye!
What a great car. It was wonderful owning it but I left it at the dealer from whom I'm buying a GT4 tomorrow.
Talk about bitter sweet!!!!
I will see her tomorrow AM when I go to sign everything, but the drive to the dealer over Vancouver's Lions Gate Bridge and around Stanley Park was a fitting and beautiful end to a great 7 year ownership experience with my turbo. Lots of good and bad things happened during those years!
What a great car. It was wonderful owning it but I left it at the dealer from whom I'm buying a GT4 tomorrow.
Talk about bitter sweet!!!!
I will see her tomorrow AM when I go to sign everything, but the drive to the dealer over Vancouver's Lions Gate Bridge and around Stanley Park was a fitting and beautiful end to a great 7 year ownership experience with my turbo. Lots of good and bad things happened during those years!
04-13-2018, 12:11 PM
#3867
Hey Gang,
Question for the resident experts. I'm bleeding my spoiler hydraulics right now, and one of the hydraulic pump hoses (the longer one - passenger side) is neither taking in or letting out the Pentosin when I actuate the pump; the other one works flawlessly. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Joe
Question for the resident experts. I'm bleeding my spoiler hydraulics right now, and one of the hydraulic pump hoses (the longer one - passenger side) is neither taking in or letting out the Pentosin when I actuate the pump; the other one works flawlessly. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Joe
04-13-2018, 08:30 PM
#3869
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Wasn't today, but I watched mine roll away on a flatbed... coolant pipe let go. It can happen to anyone- 70k, owned for 5 years, no track days. Today what I did was talk to my indy about a 3K pinning job! Cost of ownership!