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John V

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  1. John V
    Hey fellow 986 owners, A friend and I came up with an easy-to-install device that allows one touch top operation. We made two of these for our own cars and we are considering making more of them if anyone is interested in buying one. The unit allows you to raise or lower the top by touching the button once. If you want to stop it, you touch the opposite button. You can then start it again in either direction by pressing the desired button. It doesn't have speed sensing, so if you want to operate the top while moving, you can do the pin 18 hack on the top relay, which is what we did. This doesn't prevent you from trying to operate your top at high speed, but we don't think this is a big deal. It's pretty easy to know when you're above 25 MPH or so. Also you'll still need to pull your parking up a click in order to operate the top. This can be defeated as well, if you like, but again, you have to be smart about it. The installation is easy; it goes right behind the switch. You unplug the switch and install this between the switch contacts and the connector. That's all there is to it- it takes maybe 15 minutes to install, if you take your time. Based on what it cost us to build these, we'd be able to sell these at less than $100 each. Anyone interested?
  2. John V
    That would be the spring spacer compensation part - green is the thick spacer and white is thinner one. Interesting. I'll have to measure the free length and see what the difference is between a green and a white spring.
  3. John V
    It might have been one of the last MY02's before the MY03 production. For example - my MY99 Carrera has many of the MY00 updates and my car was built in July 1999 (the last production month for MY99). Must have been. Thanks again for your help. Just to bump this thread... A friend just picked up a set of his own US 030 springs. They are off of an '00 S, factory installed. They have the same color code that my springs do, yellow / white fronts and orange / brown rears. The only difference is that at the top of his springs is a white stripe, and on the top of my front springs is a green stripe. So I guess yellow / white and orange / brown really is an '00S US M030 color code.
  4. John V
    Thanks. I am not trying to slam Bobby. Hell, when this is all said and done I'm still going to be out $60 for return shipping! I just don't feel like I should pay Bobby's auction fees, his $60 shipping to me in addition to that $60 shipping back to him when this was clearly a seller error. That is what he's asking of me if I return the parts. I don't want revenge, I just want the 030 suspension I bought and paid for or my money back. :( If anyone thinks that's unfair I'd like to hear why.
  5. John V
    Here are a couple pics of my "RoW M030" shocks :( I have pictures at home of my calipers measuring my "RoW 24mm front sway bar" at 23.6mm and my "RoW rear sway bar" at 18.5mm :(
  6. John V
    If it was sold as a RoW 030 kit why are none of the parts I got RoW 030? That's the question I keep asking you and the question you still refuse to answer! Why should I do any research when I purchased something advertised as RoW 030? Pretty cut and dry, right? Why are you so confused here?
  7. John V
    His name is Bobby Shekarbi. He is, or was, active in the Houston area Boxster community. His eBay ID is ags110. He stated that this was a RoW 030 kit, and it's obviously not. He will give me a refund, but minus what it cost him to ship the parts to be. What a load of BS. I filed a claim with PayPal. Loren is there any was I could get some sort of "official" documentation stating what you just said? A printout of the PET or something? Thanks again. John
  8. John V
    Loren, Just looking to verify a couple things here. I bought a "RoW 030 suspension" for a Boxster S on eBay. The guy listed a bunch of invalid part numbers but said everything was RoW 030. Now I get it and I'm pretty sure it's not a RoW 030 kit. Just looking to verify. He sent: 2x 986.343.041.20 front shocks (part number is stamped on them) 2x 986.333.051.20 rear shocks (part number is stamped on them) 1x 23.6mm sway bar (can't find a part number stamped on this) 1x 18.5mm rear sway bar (can't find a part number stamped on this) 2x front blue/white springs 2x rear pink/yellow springs Are the springs even 030? The bars don't measure 24/19 like they should for M030, and the part numbers for the shocks I believe should have been: 986.343.041.30 for the fronts and 986.333.051.30 for the rears if they were indeed 030 parts. Am I correct here? I need all the ammunition I need so I can form a fraud case and get my money back from PayPal. Is there any chance of you faxing the appropriate PET pages to me showing what the correct 030 parts numbers would be or should I just go to my dealer (not usually very helpful)? Thanks as usual.
  9. John V
    One time in my life I can offer a Bill the Cat ...."Pthbbt!" I"m left handed and have never had a problem.... 'evil grin' Holy old topic! It's much easier to just put the top in service mode and get to the connector from there. Piece of cake, and I'm right-handed!
  10. John V
    Evo quoted me $100 for just their bearings. Wow. Tool Pants is right - the entire shift console is not much more expensive. With the help of a friend with a lathe, I'm just gonna make my own bushings.
  11. John V
    One option as tool pants hints at is if you don't mind having a non-saleable B+M short shifter you can put the stock shifter back in the car using the B+M pivot bushings. Returns the throw to stock and doesn't require you to buy a new shift console. John
  12. John V
    It might have been one of the last MY02's before the MY03 production. For example - my MY99 Carrera has many of the MY00 updates and my car was built in July 1999 (the last production month for MY99). Must have been. Thanks again for your help.
  13. John V
    Thanks for all your help Loren. Interesting that these yellow / white springs came off of an '02 Boxster S with factory US 030!
  14. John V
    Ack. Sorry Loren, let me try to be more clear. Are the part numbers unique from year to year. i.e. is a 2000 Boxster S M030 spring different from a 2001 Boxster S M030 spring or a 2002 or a 2003, etc. Thanks for your patience. John
  15. John V
    Okay, but are the part numbers different?
  16. John V
    Sport (030). Just trying to determine if these springs (orange / brown and yellow / white) are the same as would have come on my '00 S had it been ordered with 030. Thanks! :renntech: John
  17. John V
    Thanks for the reply - one more question: What are the paint codes for an '00 Boxster S front and rear springs? And are the part numbers different than the ones that I have? Thanks! :cheers:
  18. John V
    Thanks, Loren!
  19. John V
    Hoping someone can help here. I bought a set of springs off of a 2002 US market M030 Boxster S. One set of springs are marked Orange / Brown which matches what cb-racing.com lists for a US 030 rear spring for a Boxster S 6-speed. However the other pair of springs are market yellow and white, and I'm told they should be red / white. Is the yellow / white also a US M030 front spring? If it helps, there are part numbers stamped into the springs. The yellow / white springs are marked 986.412.19.14 which comes up blank on a part number search here. The orange / brown spring number is not that legible, but it appears to be 986.332.10.01 or 986.332.19.01, something like that. Can anyone help clear this up? Thanks!
  20. John V
    Replying to the oldest thread ever... Thought I would post a picture of what I did - sounds like what the last poster did as well, but a picture makes things easier I think. I left the muffler mount bracket "B" attached to the trans (in the case of my 3.2L S, it has four bolts). The reason being the two upper bolts which are X-ed out in the image were very difficult to get to with the muffler in place. I was worried I wouldn't be able to get them back in later! I did not even remove the u-pipes from the rear catalysts to the muffler. I left them attached at the muffler and removed the wide clamp which attaches the u-pipe to the cats. I then removed the piano wire piece that attaches the lower rear of the muffler at points "C." Then I removed the plates bolting the muffler hangers to the catalysts at "D." Last, I removed the two circled nuts. They are easy to get to and not particularly tight. The upper muffler hanger, "A," is very flexible. Reach up and push the part "A" towards the rear of the vehicle. The muffler will drop down as these bolts (which are not very long) pull out of the muffler bracket "B." Careful positioning will let you drop the muffler down out of the car. This method allowed me to remove the muffler in only 15 minutes! Critical when you are designing an exhaust and have to remove and reinstall the muffler during test fitting! Hope this helps someone out there. John V
  21. John V
    Thanks Loren. I did look through that list but stopped after I didn't see 236 or 502 listed. Seems as though nobody knows what those two options are. My car does have deviated stitching, and I didn't see that come up in my options so one might pertain to that. It also has small aluminum trim but that doesn't come up in the rest of the options. Any thoughts?
  22. John V
    I looked through the order guides and didn't find what I was looking for. My car has these options listed and I'm curious what they are. 236, 502, 584, 696, 981, 983. Also, it has both 490 and 680 listed, which the '02 order guide says is a "conflict." Thanks! John
  23. John V
    I'll be competing with the car at the DC ProSolo and the car needs to be in a factory stock condition to be legal. Now if this short shifter was a factory option, then I could legally leave it in. But I do not believe that to be the case. Basically I need to find someone who is willing to switch the entire shifter mechanism with me. Thank you for your input, Loren. Very helpful as always. :notworthy:
  24. John V
    Any of you guys that upgraded, do you still have your stock shifter assembly? My '00 S needs to go back to stock, but the previous owner didn't include the factory shifter assembly so all i have is the B+M that is currently installed. Thx, :beer: JV During the B&M install you break the old shifter bushings and reuse the housing. Porsche does not sell just the bushings - only the whole assembly. Loren, I didn't install the B+M, the car came this way. I know nothing of how the B+M is installed. I haven't ever taken it apart to look at it. Are you saying there is no easy way to revert back to stock at this point? I guess I can pull the shift knob and boot tonight and see how things are arranged in there but without a stock assembly to compare to it might be a waste of time. John
  25. John V
    Any of you guys that upgraded, do you still have your stock shifter assembly? My '00 S needs to go back to stock, but the previous owner didn't include the factory shifter assembly so all i have is the B+M that is currently installed. Thx, :beer: JV
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