Making the 911 that Porsche were too sensible to consider

We did this route starting from Erg Chebbi, next to Merzouga and travelling back west to Marrakech. Drop me a PM or head over to the Motorcycle Appreciation thread if you want any info or if I can answer any questions!

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THAT ‘TACH THOUGH

Sweat prevention. Like an eyebrow for the mouth

Hahaha, you're still not over that shock yet eh!

Need an update please.
Desperately trying to resist spending money I don’t have on one of these.

I think, for the money (which I've not looked at recently but depending on how much work you feel comfortable doing, lets say between £10-£20k) these are a huge bargain (relative to their performance). Do it!

Sadly where I now live I can't bring the car over - in Singapore in order to import a vehicle it has to be under 3 or over 30 years old.

But, I can't sell Percy so I've left him in the care of a friend (and I'm looking forward to driving him over Christmas, with the hard-top on).

The new engine continues to tick along, but even I'd admit it's glacially slow. The exhaust manifolds are being made by a guy near Silverstone, who is impressively picky. The manifolds will be (true) equal length, around 27" IIRC per branch (for peak power rather than torque, therefore), and he's looked at the catalyst sections we were going to use and immediately said that he'll make something better.

On the intake side we've not yet pulled the trigger with the ITB guy. I admit, I remain convinced that we need a vacuum pump as we're replacing manifold vacuum, so we're looking at that.

Cool project!

Didn't know they did the fried egg lights with water jets on them? Guessing your lights are HIDs? Were these even a thing back then!?

Over the last few years, I've been on a Porsche rampage;

. 986 boxster 2.7
. 986 boxster 3.2
. 987 cayman 2.7
. 996 turbo
. 997 turbo

now back in a 986 2.7 manual that is dialed. At first wasn't too keen on this era Porsche, but got the bug pretty quickly.

Unreal how many parts they used on the mk1 boxster from the 911!

Cool thread, like the mods :)

Nope, pre-dates the Litronic headlights, it came with washers for the standard bulbs- I think it was pretty well specified on order, things like the LSD suggest that along with the upgraded hi-if package.

Yeah, I never knew the similarities until I started looking.. Lights, wings, bonnet and doors are all the same as the 996 911. It was @skullandbiscuits biscuits fault for buying a Boxster and starting a thread.. I ended up with a 2000 fried egg 986 a few weeks back.. they are great cars, although lots of minor things needing done due to being 23 years old.. get over to Boxa.net

The engine that’s being prepared for my car is a brand new Boxter 3.2- we took the new block out to 100mm bores which gives another half litre of swept displacement with the same crank.

True equal length, 27" primaries, 105dB with 200 cell cats, so fully legal/will pass emissions at any MOT station (although helps if it's warm...)

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Porsche (stock) don't merge the two banks so you have two straight-three engines running at the same revs albeit unequal length so the pulses are irregular, moving to an X-pipe plus true equal length should change the exhaust note and improve scavenging.

Should also sound demonic at 8,000 rpm.

I know nothing about cars but those tentacle tube thingies look cool.

Is that your car? How do you feel about the rusty bits and oil leak?!

Not my car, not sure whose it is tbh- possibly the nearest 996 to the exhaust fabrication place.

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Any pics of the brackets or install? I've picked one up for my 986

The fire extinguisher?

Yeah, please

999 141 028 02 x 3 = screws to mount metal bracket to seat frame
996 521 674 00 (LHD) or 996 521 673 00 (RHD) x 1 = metal mounting bracket
900 067 137 02 x 2 screws to mount extinguisher cradle to metal bracket
900 151 027 02 x 2 washers for the above screws
996 521 607 00 x 1 Plastic red cradle to hold extinguisher

But that red plastic cradle is for the old extinguisher shape I think

Awesome thanks.. mines not OEM, so going to make a bracket up.. so was wanting to see what way yours was mounted..

I actually made a thread on the cradle, I just remembered.

I was made redundant on the 1st of February this year, with 30 days gardening leave for my notice period, giving me a final working day of the 1st of March. Somewhat inconveniently my employer, despite making me redundant, refused to consider releasing me from the non-compete clause in my contract - which gave me a first possible start date of 1st (well, probably 2nd) of September. My visa requires a certain salary level - which is frankly unavailable working out of the sector I've been in for the past 15 years, so this effectively means I can't start my next job during the six month period.

Presented with lemons I decided to try to make lemonade, which for me meant spending a month or so riding my mountain bike in the Alps, but in a way that considered my lack of income/reliance on savings.

This means putting this (without bag):

On this:

And because no roof box that I could find online is narrow enough to fit on the roof bars alongside a Thule UpRide 599, pressing a Peli 1740 into service as a roof box:

Which has the aerodynamics of a 1980's Volvo, but is hopefully also equally robust.

I am so here for all of this.
911 Safari lite is the dream.

I'm surprised about the width issue - we've had one of the Thule-made Halfords narrow boxes + three Thule bikeholders all on the bars on our S-Max (which although admittedly less interesting I wouldn't have thought would be that much wider)?