2001 Boxster S

[TameRacingDriver]

I've read this whole thread from start to finish over the last couple of days. Very interesting journey and good to see you're using it properly.

I've just bought my second Boxster S. Mine didn't have the hard top, but was / is still leaking somewhere. Done all the drains etc. Going to do window seals, and retension the roof.

Mine also has the silly exhaust. I think if I never had the roof down I'd want something standard or quieter, but with the roof down, and for those fun drives, I think it's hilarious personally.

This new one is a bit rougher than the old one, but was also a hell of a lot cheaper, and mechanically it seems perfect and has a great history. Same owner for 15+ years.

I was a bit too precious about my old one. This one is getting used properly, and I'm having a lot of fun in it. I reckon you'd need to spend a hell of a lot more money to get a significantly better experience.



Readers car thread here: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[ATM]

Just had my first roof down drive in this car for 2023. With the original quiet exhaust on and none of the banging and clanking from the incorrect exhaust fitting it all feels and sounds very nice and civilised. Can actually hear a bit of engine noise as the exhaust is basically silent. Quite like it. Glad I have this car.

[TameRacingDriver]

I always used to find I struggled to hear the engine with the roof down and the standard exhaust due to the wind noise.

MR2 Roadster had the same issue with the standard exhaust too.

[ATM]

TameRacingDriver said:

I always used to find I struggled to hear the engine with the roof down and the standard exhaust due to the wind noise.

MR2 Roadster had the same issue with the standard exhaust too.

Yes I'm not driving it quickly. Just pottering round the urban jungle. No wind around 30mph.

[ATM]

This car has been sat rotting away for months. Need to get some enthusiasm. Right now the seats are out in and in a different car. So I am back to thinking about seats but there is more. I have driven the car, no moved the car around on the drive - not on any roads - with no seat. There is so much room. This got me to thinking about some tiny retro type seats. You know the sort with no head rest and ideally very little shoulder support. I'll do some ebay searching and see what I find....





Ok this last one has got me thinking about something totally custom. Right now when I sit in the car [with no seat] my shoulders are resting on the bulkhead which is carpeted. So if I could rest my shoulders on this by having effectively a seat very low / short backrest then I would have absolutely loads of room.

[ATM]

Another little project of mine is trying to squeeze a 16 inch wheel on the rear.

It doesn't fit. It fouls on the toe arm. This is without a spacer.

[ATM]

Trying again but this time with a 15mm spacer. I might try again but with 2 x 15mm spacers to give me 30mm total.

I did also think about shaving a bit of metal off the toe arm ball joint mount where it fouls but that's probably not the best idea. Maybe I could investigate none standard toe arm options to see if any of these have a lower profile ball joint mounting.

[ATM]

[ATM]

Took about 40mm of spacers to get the toe arm joint to sit outside the wheel

[ATM]

ATM on Monday 10th April said:

Hardtop is now off

Good News

I found some more damp today. Same place as before just behind the driver seat so where the 2 carpets meet, floor and bulkhead. This proves it is not the hard top. To say I am pleased is an under statement.



Bad News

I found some more damp today.

[was8v]

Are you going to do the Crios mod to the standard exhaust?

Can be done in situ through the tailpipes

10-15mm hole lets a nice bit more sound out without ruining it.

[was8v]

I don't fancy smacking the back of my head on the roll bar in even low speed frontal collision with those low back seats....

[ATM]

ATM said:

Another little project of mine is trying to squeeze a 16 inch wheel on the rear.

It doesn't fit. It fouls on the toe arm.

poppopbangbang elsewhere said:

That's tight! Something with a rose joint as the outer link will likely be your best bet as the joint body is pretty skinning in Z and you've got plenty of room for the fastener:

https://suspensionsecrets.co.uk/product/suspension...

You could modify the stake collar to bring the joint up close to the upright (as there is very little misalighnment to compensate for there) but in doing so you will also be impacting the bump steer.... how much is calculatable once you know the reduction but it'll be pretty small given the short distance we're talking about here.

As a package check I'd probably order a cheap joint from McGill and mock it up with a bolt and washers to look at the maximum packaging height available - remember wheels move about on the hubs so a fag paper/blonde one is not going to be sufficent clearance as it's good practice to allow for an amount of wheel bearing failure/aging etc.

So I have ordered a Fluro joint only for measuring or mocking as suggested and here it is..

[ATM]

So I did a quick check to see if the rose joint will gain me the 1 or 2 mm I need [guess] to hopefully allow a 16 inch wheel to squeeze on.

So across the width here of the circular section it's hard to measure accurately without some kind of vernier but using some crude tactics I think that standard arm is around 41mm. The rose joint is more like 38mm.



The biggest difference is in the thickness. I didn't measure it but hopefully it's obvious from the pic. Standard arm is much thicker here.



So based on this crude measure or comparison I think I'll go ahead and order the tricky adjustable rose jointed arms. Worst case I'll have adjustable arms and the 16 inch wheel still won't fit. I can live with that or use the arms on a different car.

[ATM]

Putting the Recaros back in for a little trial fit. I have adjusted the seat mounting slightly so the seat is even lower than before.

I might even remove the steering wheel and swap over with a Momo.

[TV8]

Great running thread. I saw your pictures of the wheels on boxa and thought the rear wheels of your car and mine seem quite narrow. I have bought a set of these wheels now and the rears are properly enormous, at least on the set I bought! Are your rears 9Jx17?

[ATM]

TV8 said:

Great running thread. I saw your pictures of the wheels on boxa and thought the rear wheels of your car and mine seem quite narrow. I have bought a set of these wheels now and the rears are properly enormous, at least on the set I bought! Are your rears 9Jx17?

Depends which pics you are looking at. I dabbled with 4 x fronts at one point. So all 4 corners were wearing 7x17 and 205 tyres. Car drove absolutely fine and felt quite good. Sure if provoked it would slide a little but you needed to be really brave and I'm not that brave. Link below. Wheels look much more inboard at the rear obviously.

But basically yes now it is wearing the correct 7 front and 9 rear. If anyone has a set of these wheels then the sizes are the same as yours. No copies exist that I have found. Everyone has the same Porsche wheels or probably made by BBS - not sure. I have 3 sets now.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[TV8]

ATM said:

Depends which pics you are looking at. I dabbled with 4 x fronts at one point. So all 4 corners were wearing 7x17 and 205 tyres. Car drove absolutely fine and felt quite good. Sure if provoked it would slide a little but you needed to be really brave and I'm not that brave. Link below. Wheels look much more inboard at the rear obviously.

But basically yes now it is wearing the correct 7 front and 9 rear. If anyone has a set of these wheels then the sizes are the same as yours. No copies exist that I have found. Everyone has the same Porsche wheels or probably made by BBS - not sure. I have 3 sets now.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

It was the pics of the gold wheels, which are the 9J rears if I am understanding correctly. I cleaned my car today and there is a lot of tyre in there on the 8.5 J I currently have fitted. You don’t see that though as they are well hidden.

[ATM]

TV8 said:

It was the pics of the gold wheels, which are the 9J rears if I am understanding correctly.

Yes you got it

These wheels come in no other sizes. Every set is the same.

You can fit a 10 inch rear on these cars I'm sure of that. You may be able to get more wheel in there but I'd be guessing.

[ATM]

Finally got the car our of hibernation and drove it.