Some pics of my car....

[Rreemo]

Have had several requests out here, so figured I'd snap a few pics when I got it out today. Other than H&R coilovers it's all stock. I've got plans to do a shifter...B&M makes a nice one for these cars. Would like to do some exhaust as well. For looks I'm planning to drop the front just a little more and I'm considering a turbo/C4S front bumper cover....also been considering different wheels....something forged in a hyper-silver finish and 19's....would like to step the rears up to 305/30/19's. Currently has 285/35/18's on the rear with quite a bit of room to grow.

[Shaggin Wagon]

Is it okay to hate you out of jealousy?

[Mysticcobrakilla]

Pics of blue truck?












J/k. Nice ride

[BttleFedC10]

These are all motor arent they?

[black90notch]

nice car

do you still have the camaro? by the way sweet car.

[Chopped54]

NICE!
Thanks to you, and your other post, I have been toying with the idea of an early 200x 911....

[joes01bullitt]

Is it okay to hate you out of jealousy?

That would make 2 of us.... haha

[krazy kris]

nice tractor

[slowyellow]

Good looking cars. My father in law has an 08 carrera s and I love it. I keep asking him when he's going to take me for a ride and he says, "hell, I'll let you take it for a while". But we never seem to get to it, lol. Sweet ride though.

[slowyellow]

P.S. Do you work for Microsoft??

[Vertnut]

Looks slow. ;-)

[Pro88LX]

love it

[Rreemo]

Is it okay to hate you out of jealousy?

They really aren't too expensive

These are all motor arent they?

Yeah, this one is just a C2..NA 3.6 flat six. Makes 320hp and weighs in right under 2900#....so power-to-weight ration makes it a lot of fun. Vivid racing makes a nice turbo kit that gets it up near 500 to the tires, but it's also almost $10K.

The turbo 996's weigh a little more but they also make about 100 more hp stock and AWD.

do you still have the camaro? by the way sweet car.

Thanks. Don't have the Camaro anymore....selling it as a roller funded most of this car. I kept the 6.0 and all of the LSX stuff which is now going into my Chevelle.

NICE!
Thanks to you, and your other post, I have been toying with the idea of an early 200x 911....

Feel free to holler if I can help with questions or anything, I did quite a bit of research on them myself. My best advice is to try to go with a 02' or up...several good upgrades happened in 02', one of the biggest being the step up from 3.4 to 3.6 which gave them a ~20hp bump. With that considered and where my price range was I looked mostly only at 02's and 03's.

Read this - http://www.lnengineering.com/buyingausedporsche101.pdf

The 996's really are great cars but they do have an achilles heel that anyone thinking on buying one should be aware of....intermediate mainshaft (IMS) bering failures. The bering is upgradable and LN Engineering makes a really nice upgrade kit. Interestingly enough when you do some reasearch you'll find that lower mileage cars are more prone to it than higher mileage ones. The best bet is to try to buy one that has already had the upgrade or else figure the cost into your purchase price and plan on doing it proactively...the kit is $700 and if you are going to have it done figure on about $1500-$1800 parts and labor. IMS failures result in total engine failure >50% of the time, and a good long block for one of these things is stupid expensive.

The guys on forums like 6-speed online and rennlist put a lot of hype around this deal...more-so than necessary I think, but even still there are some figures out there that say roughly 8-10% of all 996's have or will experience this failure....considering how many of these cars were built that's a lot. They also say that the 99-01' 3.4 engines are more prone to it as well.

The turbo cars are a different design and they don't have the issue....so another good reason to buy one!

[Rreemo]

nice tractor

Thanks man....that's my Yan-Mar...only diesel I own right now!

Good looking cars. My father in law has an 08 carrera s and I love it. I keep asking him when he's going to take me for a ride and he says, "hell, I'll let you take it for a while". But we never seem to get to it, lol. Sweet ride though.

I love the 997's...going back to the oval headlights and the interior is awesome! I could see myself upgrading into one of those after this one....they'll have to come down in price a little more tho.

P.S. Do you work for Microsoft??

Almost 14 years now...I left the Ford dealerships and never looked back!

[kobuzz]

Cool car but I hate to say that i would choose the truck over the car.