perry190

not very good pictures as its cloudy and dark, but I'm happy with how theyve turned out :D

just need to get some new porsche centre caps and bolt covers to finish them off as i'll be selling my old 18's with the existing crested centre caps in place

Thanks Tool Pants

I've just spoken to the shop and told them to go ahead with painting the centres yellow. they've given me a good price on repainting them if I should decide I dont like them once on the car.

just a case of waiting a few days and then seeing what they turn out like now....................?

Thanks again for taking the time to post the pics

P

Thanks Tool Pants

now is it just me or do yellow wheels actually look pretty cool?

heres a better picture of the turbo style rear

I've recently collected by 2000 S from the body shop after having the GT2 front, trubo rear and GT3 sides fitted

now...........on monday the shop is collecting my nice new 19" Daytone Race alloys from the supplier

Daytone Race 3 piece

I was considering having the central spoked area painted speed yellow as it can easily be removed, leaving the outer rim and allen bolt area in polished finish.

whats your thoughts guys/gals? cool or too much?

cheers

Perry

do a search on here for sat nav, as some body did a great write up on how to retrofit satnav that shows how it all comes apart

enjoy :-)

opps, its was about £6 from the porsche main dealer then LOL

just explain you want to move the AC unit down to where it would be on cars with the PCM double din unit fitted as standard, its just a trim that goes around the control unit that matches the tapered shape down lower.

the existing leads reach down to that point no probs so not a big job at all matey

dont come on the forums a great deal, so feel free to mail me at perry@perry190.fsnet.co.uk if you need to know anything matey

Hi

All you need to do is obtain a different lower trim piece from your dealer that goes around the AC controls and is a tapered shape. its about $10.

you can then cut out the cross member that is presently betwen the CD storge unit and the Head unit to enable you to add your double din. you can buy the whole new surround to take a double din from the models that had PCM but its hardly worth the expense as its only a case of cutting out the cross member with craft knife

heres mine sorted

hope that helps?

Theres a guy on E-Bay UK who does a cayman style hard top for the boxster (GRP) ;=)

cool!

feel even better now I know Porsche did it as well LOL

There is slightly more effort required when cold but no more than the stock shifter was before I cut it down. Were only talking a relativly small reduction length to reduce the throw so not a great reduction in leverage.

Have done about 200 miles in her now since chopping the shift down and I'm very happy with the results. Going by others comments tho these cars do seem to vary greatly in the notchiness found? Either that, or people who have paid out on a B+M or similar dont like to admit just how bad a shift you have to put up with for the reduced throw?

Either way I'm happy :-)

New steering wheels in :D feels much better being smaller and a nice thicker grip than stock.

horn and air bag wire connections were spot on with the raid hub

cancel that, just found toolpants comment regarding leaving the key in the ign with UK cars

what a great place this is!

cheers :-)

Trying to do a steering hweel swap but everytime I try and disconnect the neg lead from the battery the alarm goes off? (key not in ign)

dont have an owners hand book I'm afraid, is there something I'm meant to be doing?

heres the basic steering wheel swap guide

http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...&st=0entry528

is there a TSB that includes the removal of the main dash in the 986/996 ?

I'm on dial up so its a pain in the neck trying to go through possible ones that 'may' include it

Have had my cluster out, demister panels, air con vents and whole centre section (head unit etc) so know those bits, but looking at the possibility of a full leather retrim so would rather take the dash out myself

many thanks

looking very nice mate, very nice indeed :-)

well....determined not to be beaten by a car I have spent all day trying various set ups until I found one that I could be happy with :)

Adjusted the cables, with and without the porsche set up tool in various positions to no avail.

replaced the stock shifter using the B+M ally bushes with the cable adjusted as per the porsche plastic tool.................great! no notchiness at all, even better than when I bought the car in standard form. :)

now being happy with the lack of 'notchiness' I set about reducing the throw of the gear stick. After sliding the gear knob on and off a few times to review how it sits on the shaft I decided on aprox. a 1.25" reduction.

I cut away aprox. 1.25" from the top of the shaft with an angle grinder and trimmed it to shape with a dremmel grinder disc. I then carefully reduced the girth of the base of the shaft also by about 1.25" in length to replicate the flat shape of the upper half on the shaft. (gear knob stops sliding down the shaft when if becomes round if you dont, so it would be pointless reducing the length)

put it all back together, slid the gear knob back down to its now 1.25" shorter base and took her for a test drive :ermmm:

Absolutely superb! nice short shift, nice and tight due to the ally bushes and allen bolt adjustment on the B+M bushes, and not one notchy feel in any gear! :D

I am so so chuffed with myself! the car is back in my good books and its a pleasure to drive it once again :D :D :D

is there anything else that can be out of sinc to make the gear change excessivly notchy?

I only ask as I have the B+M and have used the cable checking tool, but I really have to push it into gears to the point that my wife needs to use two hands sometimes? (nothing sexual intended LOL )

its really spoiling my driving experience as the gear changes are a real forcefull 'clunk' in almost every gear?

the gear change was notchy before adding the B+M but also very slack, now its nice and tight with a great short throw but the notchiness is far far too much, at the mo its the worsed gear change I've had in any car and I've always gone for short shifters in the past. even cut down shifters with a dremmel and its never been this 'clunky'

desperate to sort this out as other than this the car is everything I hoped (986 Boxster S 2000) at the moment prefer to drive the wifes ford as its not hard work, and that saying something!!!

Its an easy install following the B+B instructions, but saying that I now hate the clunky and very stiff gear change now the short shifter is in. It seems its a personal thing and also the cars must each be different as mine is very very stiff and very difficult to use

my wife couldnt even get the car into 2nd without using two hands!

This has to be the eorst gear change I've ever had on any car I've owned and its the most expensive????

The AC control unit just has 4 plugs going into the back of it, each is a different size so you cant mess it up :-)

where you presently have the unit down the bottom you will have a tapered moulding around the outside of it, you need to get a new moulding from your OPC thats rectangular and not tapered at the bottom so as to fit once moved up the top.

I did it the other way around and needed the tapered moulding, it cost me about £3 so about $5

you remove the two upper panels with the switches in (these just 'click' out) to gain better access to the top area.

The AC unit is held in place by one screw either side which can be seen once you have un 'clicked' the tapered AC surround. The CD storage box also just pulls out.

once you have removed (pulled off) the tapered surround from around

the AC unit it will all become apparent

hope that help?

Perry

Thanks Jinster.

No mate afraid not. mines a pretty basic set up, The double din is TV/CD/DVD/Tuner and I'm running an Alpine NVE-N099P DVD based sat nav unit through the screen.

Perry

if its the same as the 986 (boxster) then its the thin line running down the centre of your windscreen/windshield

I think in reality Clarkson loves the higher end porsches but slags of Boxsters (or has done so in the past)

It is rumoured that one of the camera men on the show had a boxster and the boxster slagging was an in house joke. this I'm sure will get worse with one of the co-presenters now having one also.

not sure if this is what your after matey?

door panel removal link