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Here are Greig's pictures of his 550 special edition. http://www.mcarthur.org.uk/gallery2/v/admi...terS/?g2_page=1 Sure looks like a 987/Cayman air box to me. Even has the same oval filter.

Might as well take some pictures. The tip is held in place with a clip and a bolt.

The 2003-2004 sport exhaust uses a bolt on tip just like the standard 2003-2004 muffler, but no tip is included in the kit. There are 3 style tips that you can bolt on. All the tips are cosmetic so it is a matter of looks. The tip in your picture is the most expensive, and I hope you are sitting down when you check out the price.

What is stated above by Cassiebox is what I understand to be correct. DSP was used 1999-2001 and is digital, so it will not work without the control unit. Bose started in 2002.

http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=1827

The spoiler switch plug is 999 650 035 40 and the pins are 999 650 330 00. The plug listed for traction control is 999 650 107 40 but there is no way to tell if it has the correct color. The pins are 999 650 103 12. What are you messing around with?

Just a note. Watch out if you drill into the battery tray unless the tray has been removed. There is a plastic gas tank under the tray. There was a car at my local dealer a few years ago and the owner drilled a hole in the tray to clamp down a non-standard size battery. As part of the emission system the tank gets pressurized and if it does not hold, then you get a check engine light. The owner drilled a hole into the battery tray and the bit went into the top of the tank, but the owner know it. The owner came into the shop due to the check engine light. Took the mechanic a while to figure out why the tank was not holding pressure. Local Boxster owner Danny has this yellow top Optima - no clamp. Since the cables are so short the battery cannot really slide around.

White is the color of the new style plastic joints. That is a rubber bushing. I cannot tell if it has split or just become displaced. It is there so you do not get rattles. Might just leave it alone.

Read the messages in the top section and then look to see if you have the new style reinforced cables. If you have the old style smooth cables then make sure enough of the cable is sticking out. See if you have red or white plastic joints. If you have the service history review it to determine if top work has already been done. I have no numbers, but since top problems were/are so common on the 1997-1999 many have failed long ago and the improved parts put in. If that is your case then there is nothing to worry about.

You mean the plug for the back of a switch? I thought on the early cars they were all the same color - yellow on my 1997. The plugs are not listed by colors, but by the switch the plug goes to, so need to know what switch. Or, you can buy a generic black one from VW.

I made these labels a few years ago on my Boxster when someone else was asking questions about a 996 cluster swap. The 996/986 covers are different. The 996/986 surrounds are different. A 996 surround with not work with 986 cover. If you want to go with a 996 surround so that you do not have to cut your 986 surround, then you will also have to buy a 996 cover. In the second picture 1999 Boxster owner Savinor went with a 996 cover and surround when he did the swap.

Can you do a link to the Sir Tools? They use to only have round pin tools.

This picture is the rear of my Boxster dash cap/surround and the face off the 996 cluster. The face of a 996 cluster is wider than a Boxster due to the 2 additional gauges, so you need to cut/trim the Boxster surround. I have put yellow marks on the area that you need to cut away, but just on one side of the Boxster surround. Of course you also need to cut away the other side. This picture is from the rear so you will not see what I am talking about until you remove the unit from your car and then remove the cluster. Once you have your dash out and the cluster removed you will see the lines/ridges that you cut to, so that the 996 cluster will fit. The plasic is thin. The picture in the link is the Boxster surround that you will need to cut.

The AMP/Tyco connectors and pins used by Porsche are automotive metric. The dealer has a set of tools for all the connectors, made by this company http://www.mibostahl.com/. The set is expensive. I have never played with those pins so I do not know which tool you need. Hazet, Stahlwille, and several other companies also make these pin removal tools that you can buy as a kit or just the tool you need. Here are some more. http://www.office-netshop.de/shop/gallery/ART_00062271.html http://www.tgs-tools.com/ http://www.tkr-tools.de/online-katalog/entriege.htm

The mechanics I have spoken to out my local dealer did not put anyting on the set screws. The switch on my 1997 has been replaced twice by the dealer and there is nothing on the screws.

As stated above, find someone to swap air bags with. You would have to remove the cover and grind off the back of the rivet, or drill through the face of the crest. This is not a standard DIYer project. I forget where this picture came from.

http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...045&hl=seal

I do not know anyone who has done this. I do not see how it would fit on a 987.

I tested the rule of thumb today on a 2000 Boxster S owned by Tariq. The mileage is 98,689 miles. The engine operating hours 3,019. If you do the math that comes out to an average of 33 miles per operating hour, not far off the rule of thumb. Some time back Loren checked a 1999 996. 39,758 miles and 1,166 hours, or an average of 34. My 1997 Boxster had 1,622 hours on the original DME and I have 316 hours on the new DME - total hours 1,938. Mileage is 62,549, or an average of 32 miles per operating hour. I live in a traffic congested area with a lot of stop and go traffic

http://www.pca.org/tech/tech_qa_question.a...7-E583A6E12D96} http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread....threadid=338379 Never done it. Don't know how to do it. Years ago I talked to a mechanic and about all I remember is he said something about the cannister and it being a pain. I'll have to ask him again.

Pescaderdo Road is too twisty to go fast. Luis did not have a cage. He had the show roll bar that bolts to the seat belt mounting points. We have Boxster owners that turtle their car and walk away. When I saw a picture of the wreck on the flatbed I could not figure it out. The roof was gone. I kept looking at the picture and something was wrong. Today I called Peter who knew Luis and had worked on his car in the past. I told Peter something was wrong because there was no roof. Then I sent Peter a picture of the wreck. Peter told me Luis had a carbon fiber roof. I did not know this. I knew he had a carbon fiber trunk lid and doors. The driver's door is also gone in the wreck picture. I knew he did not have air bags. When I first met Luis 3 plus years ago he had a standard C4 1999 996 with a steel roof, and with a sun roof. The steel roof had been cut off and replaced with a carbon fiber roof last year. That is a reason why it was at the body shop when I took pictures of it last year.

The horn for the alarm is next to the battery on the drivers side. Alarm horn has nothing to do with the pair of horns under the front bumper cover for the steering wheel. Since you say the fuse is ok I would check the relay next. Do you have a 3 or 4 spoke steering wheel. I think by 2001 both the 2.7 and 3.2 had the 3 spoke.

A drive to the coast via Pescaderdo Road is a standard drive in our area. I did not go on that drive that sad day. I went to the Santana Row parking lot for the first time, on Saturady, to see if I could find Luis. Found him. Took pictures of him and his car. Talked about the changes that had been made over the past 3 years. First met him in January 2004 at Stevens Creek Porsche, before all the mods. At Santana Row I told Luis that I had started this teasing thread back in 2005 about his car/conversion, on renntech. He asked me to email him a link to this thread since he was not on renntech. There was talk of a local drive. Luis told Gail he needed gas for the drive and there is a gas station down the street. No passenger seat was in his car. He started up the car to warm it up. Put the steering wheel on. Before Luis took off for gas I handed him a pad of post-its and a pen so he could write down his email, which he did. I guess his pipes were famous because a non-Porsche guy came over with a video thing after Luis started it up. There have been so many messages on the car message boards that I do not remember where this one came from. I think a BMW guy. Watch the camera shake. http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/djtk...uissPorsche.flv The fat guy in blue with the hat, reaching into the car is me, as Luis handed me back the pen and post-its. Then in the video you can see that I moved away from the car and over to the left side to protect my hearing, as Luis took off for gas. Before Luis came back from the gas station I left Santana Row and went down the street to Stevens Creek Porsche for a while. When I got home I emailed Luis this thread. I did not know at the time I sent him the email what had already happened on Pescadero Road a few minutes earlier. I do not know what more to say that has not already been said on the various message boards..

Saw the Cayman roof rack today. Of course, if you had Boxster, you would not need one when the surf is up.

Is that on the left/drivers side? These are Cayman pictures.