![]() 01/15/2017 at 21:13 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
is on my mind.
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Nice, but I wish it had the shorter overhangs of the concept. Safety regs and all that, but I’d love to modify a 1st gen to match this one, especially those wheels.
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dooooooooo it. we’ve had 2 and loved them.
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They’re pretty good, and prices probably aren’t going to get much lower.
That said, I’ve driven a 986 Boxster S and I like my 944S better. Just sayin’.
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Hey! You’re still around, awesome!! :)
![]() 01/16/2017 at 07:40 |
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Yep! I’ve mostly been lurking but I still check in from time to time.
![]() 01/16/2017 at 10:24 |
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Sweet! Are ya coming back to Pasteiner’s for C&C when it warms up?
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Cool! Care to share some details? How was the reliability? Did you have to deal with the IMS? Are they hard to work on, access-wise? Did you have the base models, or S’s? I took an S for a quick test drive, and it felt great. I don’t think a base Boxster will satisfy me though. The S felt juust quick enough to feel like a special machine. Any less and I fear it may be underwhelmig. If only I could find one for under 9k...
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Those are 964 Turbo wheels, I believe. Putting them on a Boxster definitely elevates the look of the car. My favorite part of that concept has to be those propeller vents on the inside!
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I never cared much for the 964, but it did bring with it some good looking parts. I liked these wheels more for the color combination than the design, with that cool bronze color being a nice contrast to the silver paint (especially with the polished rims).
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Reliability on one was great, the other was a lemon haha. The reliable one I had for 3 years, put 60k miles or so on it. Only thing that failed was water pump once, otherwise I just did consumables (brakes, stuff like that). Neither was an S, one auto, one not. Those are the only cars I have recently had with <290 HP and it was plenty, you flog the shit out of them and they’re plenty fast. 200 hp is a lot in a car that small. The handling is out of this world, it ruined anything else for me. No IMS issues on either and I did not do proactive maint on it. What I’ve seen/heard is basically if you’re over 60-80k miles (which you will be on pretty much any 986 now) you are safe.
Hard to work on - absolutely. That was the one thing I hated, you have to take off the convertible top to do any serious work, I only did it once. Not sure I’d buy one again solely because of that, I do a lot of my own work and that makes it time consuming/expensive.
let me know if you have any other questions