Hello & litronic downgrade question
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Hi, we have crossed over from air-cooled world (964 forum) to water cooled, adding a 2001 Boxster S to our fleet. I still have the 964 too.
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The car has some cosmetic damage to the front and back, which is easily repaired, and then we'll being kitting it out primarily for tracks days.
I want to cash in some of the luxury factory options to fund other upgrades. Is downgrading the factory litronic lighting with std units a go-er? Is this as simple as swapping over the units and connectors? There is lots of upgrade kit how-to's about but nothing on the reverse.
Also - as for the re-sale of my factory litronic units, do these offer the same upgrade path as the kit you can buy or is there more to it than that?
many thanks
Garry
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Zt3oBgkIEjA/S0...Purchase_A.jpg
The car has some cosmetic damage to the front and back, which is easily repaired, and then we'll being kitting it out primarily for tracks days.
I want to cash in some of the luxury factory options to fund other upgrades. Is downgrading the factory litronic lighting with std units a go-er? Is this as simple as swapping over the units and connectors? There is lots of upgrade kit how-to's about but nothing on the reverse.
Also - as for the re-sale of my factory litronic units, do these offer the same upgrade path as the kit you can buy or is there more to it than that?
many thanks
Garry
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Garry, I know for sure the 99-01 prefacelift 996's that share the same lights as the 986's they are direct swap plug and play. On the 02+ facelift 996's they require a significant amount of work (wiring, shim on control arm, etc). I can't imagine there would be any difference between the 97-01 986 and the 99-01 996. I'd wait for another confirmation from the guys here to verify my assumption.
You could probably pick up a set of standards for very cheap and make some decent cash with the sale of the litronics.
You could probably pick up a set of standards for very cheap and make some decent cash with the sale of the litronics.
#3
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I could very well be intersted in the swap. I have standard non-Litronics in my 2001 S. They work great but the lenses are starting to yellow a bit but they would be great for basic track use. I do think the ballasts are different in addition to the projector housings. But you know they would work as they are they same year.
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I could very well be intersted in the swap. I have standard non-Litronics in my 2001 S. They work great but the lenses are starting to yellow a bit but they would be great for basic track use. I do think the ballasts are different in addition to the projector housings. But you know they would work as they are they same year.