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Just for curiosity, here´s 15 Carreras from 1997 for sale in Germany

Sorry for the size of the link:

http://www.mobile.de/SIDGnXJu3270PPLGBjExU...1&doSearch.y=14

Or will the ABS activate? Sometimes I like to play a little with my car at the Porsche Club events. There is a concur that we play with our cars thrue some cones and the use the handbrake to loose the rear giving power just after to. This could provide me some not only fun, but also to be more quicker. I´ve a 99 with TC.

J.Seven

I am curious, why would spacers provide more of a feel of power and speed on the straights?  Correct me if am I wrong but don't the spacers just widen the track of the car?

No, they do a lot more. They screw up the carefully designed and finely tuned steering geometry of your car. Basically, spacers increases the leverage under which forces are being introduced into the car's suspension. The first thing to go is usually the wheel bearings, but damaged wheel carriers are also known.

Perhaps more worryingly, they make the car more unstable under certain conditions. The reasons are highly technical, but here is a copy of something I wrote as an answer to the question why Porsche do not recommend spacers of more than 5mm on the front:

"The main issue with spacers [on front wheels] is that they change the scrub radius. Most modern car manufacturers advocate negative scrub radius (BMW being the notable exception), because it stabilises the vehicle under "split mu" breaking, i.e. breaking with right and left front wheels on different friction surfaces.

A 986 (I haven't got 996 data here, but I assume it's the same) has a scrub radius of -7mm. That's *negative* scrub radius which stabilises the vehicle under split mu breaking. Introducing spacers decreases this, i.e. if you use 5mm spacers, you are left with a scrub radius of -7mm+5mm=-2mm. You get very close to a positive scrub radius, and in real life with an asymetric contact patch you might already be there. If you fit 15mm spacers, you get a *positive* scrub radius of 8mm, which destabilises the vehicle under split mu breaking and is pretty much the opposite of what the manufacturer intended."

Basically, under unfavourable conditions you can send your car into a nice spin ...

Cheers,

Uwe

Although I agree with you on the spacers questions , I was some surprised to see that the Limited Edition Boxster S has from stock spacers, and that Porsche has already has an option spacers for some of their cars. i really don´t like the wide look spars give and i was always told they were not very good for the suspension, but with this Porsche move I´m a bit :unsure:

I have a 99 C2 Cab with Traction control. I believe this car come with LSD (limited slip differencial) What exactly this LSD is supose to do? I believe it puts the power at the tire that has more grip when getting out of a turn, am I right?

Will this LSD work with the traction control off or on? Or will it work either way?

Thanks in advance.

Have a look at the thread here

Thanks Loren i have founded in mean time while searching for DiY section, thanks anyway, your´re the man :clapping:

I friend of mine just told me that you can unplug a wire on the softop control unit and have the softop working while the car is moving. Does anyone know about this hack? I know the Boxster had this possibility , but didn´t know that in 996 Cab this couls also be possible. Made a search but couldn´ t find anything. Thanks in advance.

J.Seven

Bought a 99 Carrera Cabrio that has a rattle where the hardtop rear spinlocks attached to chassi, it´s very anoying, is there something I can do to eliminate this?

With the softop  I have a rattle on the center lock, where the softop attached to the windshield. I heard there are some TBS for eliminating these bugs, can anyone provide me the link for it, I really love this car but those rattles are driving me mad. Tanks in advance.

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I didn´t receive anything by e-mail box, can you send me again to my e-mail addrerss please. Thanks.

Bought a 99 Carrera Cabrio that has a rattle where the hardtop rear spinlocks attached to chassi, it´s very anoying, is there something I can do to eliminate this?

With the softop I have a rattle on the center lock, where the softop attached to the windshield. I heard there are some TBS for eliminating these bugs, can anyone provide me the link for it, I really love this car but those rattles are driving me mad. Tanks in advance.