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Finished look....

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Nose back on...chipping away at the punch list for Phase I....

jrgordonsenior

Great report and pics. Thanks for taking the time to post them all....

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Next up is to get a baseline on the car's alignment. Time for the strings....

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We set the camber and toe and entered into our little spreadsheet....We now have a reference for future iterations....

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Before and after of front strut placement..

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Alignment done....let's torque the lug bolts and take her for a spin!

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A look at the present and future for Andrew's car!

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All done and ready for the DE! Phase I is now complete....

Bill P.

trackjunky

Nice write up. So what did you do with the seat belt light and what kind of lift are you using?

Sean F

How long did that work take?

996cats

With the Boxster seats you've got a ground wire and also a wire running to the seats that senses a butt in it. We didn't want to hack up the seats to get to the sensor (future re-sale) so we tried pulling the ground connector off of the seats. Andrew plugged in the connector to the wiring harness in the car and we didn't throw a light. We never touched the bulbs in the gauge cluster.

As far as the lift, I bought an EZ Carlift (www.ezcarlift.com). Not cheap, but I have no buyers remorse on the thing. I take it to the track and it comes apart easily for storage. You need a touquey electric drill to wind it up and down. It's all mechanically driven with worm gear. I like it.

Bill P.

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With a nice leisurely pace and stopping for lunch we did all of the mechanical items (Seats, harness bolts, front and rear AR bars and brake line/pads in about 6 hours. I had a concert to go to that night so I did the alignment the next morning.

For my car we hit it pretty hard. We were able to build it in 8 days including cage. But I did not pull the AC or heat yet. I'll finish that off in the next couple of months.

Here's what we did on my red Spec Boxster:

http://www.barrickpickeringracing.co...age_10733.html

Thanks,

Bill P.

Ray S

Looks great!!

Ray S

Can you use the a later model Boxster (2.7) in the Spec Boxster or does it have to be a 2.5?

I assume the "S" is verboten..