cretinx

Folks - I'm an avid autocrosser in Road Tire: C-Stock and was planning on continuing to compete this year while upgrading to the M030 package for my 2.7.

Unfortunately, Porsche stopped supplying their depots with the retrofit M030 for the 986 and I'm told there are pretty much none left.

I know I can order all the parts a-la-carte from Pelican, but that comes out to $2,000 or so - which is a good after market suspension.

The benefit of the M030 is that it allows me to stay in C-Stock where I'm highly competitive on the indexed classing in Road Tire (nobody competes in plain old C-Stock, so it would be pointless for me to run in a class with no competition).

Suggestions?
Should I bite the bullet, go aftermarket and deal with being in B-Street Prepared?

smshirk

Sunset still had some M030s a couple of weeks ago. Have you called them?

cretinx

No - I talked to Sun Coast who set they were all out.

Let me call Sunset.

nosnow

I just got a package from Sunset, if memory serves me ~1k. Plus if you acti quickly you can use the Porsche 20% coupon.

racer

um.. US M030 or ROW M030.. for a US car in SCCA, you need the US kit. The only difference between the kits are the taller US springs. Spring rates are the same in the two kits.

Now. if I recall some OLDER threads about M030.. the ROW kits used to be available for about $900. The US kits always were significantly more money to retrofit.

Best bet might be to scower classifieds for the correct M030 you desire, especially as folks turn cars to spec race specs and throw out the factory stuff.

cretinx

sunset told me they're special order

my local parts department told me the entire kit was discontinued

sjfehr

You have to use US M030 springs and rear sway bar, but SCCA stock classes do not limit your use of shocks or front sway bar. A stiffer front sway bar and stiffer shocks can help. The front sway bar is counterintuitive since conventional wisdom is that stiffer = understeer, but conventional wisdom assumes you've already adjusted camber and spring rate and are just fine-tuning handling. Going stiffer in a stock Boxster can actually reduce understeer by reducing dynamic loss of camber and planting the wheels on the ground better.

cretinx

unfortunately I can't adjust camber significantly in stock class.

I know they make the GT3 front sway - but its what, $600+?

sjfehr

I'm facing the same problem with my 04 986S in BS. I've been murdering the outside corner of my front tires for want of a little extra negative camber! I put the GT3 sway bar on halfway through last season. This is on non-M030 suspension, non-M030 rear swaybar, and stock shocks. Wish I could say it dropped my times by a second, but it at least gave me enough confidence to drop down on r-comps for this season without having to worry that I'll cord the corners by the 2nd event.

It's about $650 between the sway bar, droplinks and shipping. The same adjustable droplinks work for 996s (and 987s) too, and if you keep an eye out between here and the 996 forum you'll see them coming up used every so often. You need to get the 996 GT3 Swaybar, the 997 GT3 bar won't fit.

http://www.tarett.com/items/boxster~...ducts/list.htm