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Agree!
After owning both, I don't think I'd ever go for a 986.1 again
My favourite things about the .2 over the .1:
. The window on the hood being glass instead of plastic. With the original boxster, sometimes you'd have to get out and push the hood with your hand so the plastic wouldn't crease and cause a rip, meaning getting the hood down was effort
. Boot and frunk puller on the driver inner door sill are electric rather than mechanical. Really small, but these buttons are so nice to pull, they have a really nice click to them, like an old stereo system
. The .2 has a glovebox, the .1 doesn't
. The .2 has a nice 3 spoke steering wheel that looks a lot like a Carrera GT one. The .1 had a 4 spoke which looked shit
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I know it does :)
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Next jobs:
. Polish front lights
. Replace or repaint wheel bolts, slightly corroded
. Electric seat motor fuse keeps blowing, think it's grease that's got old on the mechanism and causing it to blow. Will clean it and see where we are.
. Weight reduction (maybe?) -
. front spare tyre weights about 20kg, tool kit about 5kg and the battery around 17kg (at a guess). I could remove wheel items + get a lighter battery.
. Fit Recaro pole positions (I have already, no idea about how to fit them)
According to google, these cars weight 1260kg. Would be nice to get it just under 1200.
Have to really stop myself from just completely stripping this car...
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Taaa daaaa, fresh MOT.
I cannot believe a 22 year old car got through with only 1 advisory, extremely pleased.
I was sweating expecting something unexpected, but MOT tester said it was a really well looked after car. All of the plastic under trays in great condition with original fixings, plus all jacking points etc really clean. Very happy.
I had a nose under the car when he had it up on the ramp, everything single time I've ever done this with a car I've owned, I've been disappointed lol, but for the first time I wasn't.
I purchased the car back with only 1 month left on the MOT so I was expecting something.
The issue is on the front bumper are the indicators, which have lost their orange-ness. I think I'll just get some new bulbs instead of trying to repaint them.
Last weekend, I spent an entire Saturday cleaning the car. Sadly, I don't have any photos of the cleaning but result photos below.
For those interested, I put the car on jack stands, removed wheels and snow foamed entire outside of the car, including under the arches + underside.
Once it was left to sit, I used mixture of brushes and mitts to remove dirt, then just a mitt and shampoo. I then dried the car and used Swissvax carnauba before putting wheels back on and tyre shine.
Interior also got leather cleaner and nourishment.
My next job is to get some new numberplates as the previous owned put on 3d plates, which I think look shit.
Very tempted to get the 8 and the O sliiiightly closer together.
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They mean you don't have to read this thread, as there will probably be more boorish Clarksonism's coming in the future.
Spoiler: there will be
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Ahhhh gotcha. It's a really cool build, I like the hood that he's created, looks like a home made Spyder hood.
I used to have an EP3 Type R, and I have to say the K20 my favourite engine I've had in any car.
I'd absolutely love to drive something as light as this with a K20 that revs to 10k. After a little google search, a K20 is 125kg, quite light...
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Not sure I follow, did you mean weight increase?
Think the car is around 650kg and a bike with that engine would be around 150kg?
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This came up on my suggested videos earlier today.
I cannot express how much I love this build, I'd go as far as saying one of the most interesting builds I've seen in the last 6 months.
I think my love for weight reduction comes from bicycles, but I just find lightweight projects so so so damn interesting.
5kg here, 10kg there, it's all just great. If I have the mechanical knowledge, I'd do something like this.
The only thing I'd say to that is just make sure the car is all one colour.
Yellow is a notoriously hard colour to match, and having mis-matching body panel colours would drive me insane.