My car has been undergoing a lot of modifications throughout the summer but for this thread i'm going to be focusing on the 997.2 stuff. This isn't the first 997.2 Conversion but I figured my insights would be helpful.

Precision Porsche (Board Sponsor) used my car to test fit their new 2010 GT3 parts on my car and I went home with their new wing. The fiberglass quality was amazing, no waves at all and the fitment was perfect and did not need any adjusting to make it fit.

I bought the 997.2 LED Tail light kit from Suncoast Porsche (Another great board sponsor). The kit came with (2) tail lights, (1) Rear Control Module, (2) Harness Plugs to replace the one on your car. The lights came packaged very throughly so as to make sure that nothing is damaged.



Tailights test fitted on the car comparing old and new.


Instead of replacing my rear bumper, I had my OEM GT3 rear bumper modified to fill in the gaps where the 997.1 lights used to be. My local body shop used a short strand fiberglass filler to fill in the gaps and shaped it to perfection








The Suncoast kit came with a pair of harness adapters for the 997.2 tailights. The reason being is that the 997.2 tailight has a notch on it that the old tailight did not. Therefore, the old harness plug does not have an accommodation for that notch whereas the new 'gray' adapter does. I tried switching out the wiring from the old harness to the new, but could not figure it out, neither did I want to shave down the notch. Instead, I forced the old harness plug onto the tail light, and since it is plastic it was able to slide over the notch and plug onto the tail light. Here is the difference between the 2 harness'



After I brought the car home, I swapped out the Rear Control Module located under the driver seat. You must unclip a plastic cover off the old rear control unit and simply unplug the wires and plug them into the new Rear Control Unit supplied by Suncoast. The brake lights and turn signals all work, however, as soon as I turn the headlights on, only the passenger side tail light stays on. This is where the PIWIS programming is needed to turn the LED option on under the coding section for the rear control unit. I will take the car in to the dealership later this week.





All in all, it wasn't a very difficult or time consuming process, nor was it too expensive. I spent well under $2,000 for the LED's and the bodywork alone. Gotta say thanks to Edwin @ Precision Porsche for putting together the test-fitting opportunity, and ///MJFDDS (Matt) for answering a million questions about the LED's, and Peter at Auto Werks body shop in So. Cal for doing an amazing job on the rear bumper.

 

WOW, looks GREAT!! Love the new mods...

 

very nice!

 

looks amazing aaron! good stuff!

I think you should get ur parents to move the H2
It appears to be parked in a pcar only spot, they might get a ticket :P

 

well under $2000? why dont you just give me a closer range as to how much you spent then?

=P haha

looks good man! the LED's are a win

 

wow ,that look good

 

two thumbs up bro!!!! u always suprise us with great things!!! keep it up!!!

 

Great write-up, great photos, and the car looks fantastic. Well done!!

 

That looks great, did you convert the front lights to the LED's?

 

Car looks incredible Aaron! Very nice and thanks for your help as well!

Edwin

 

Damn! Great job! You can't even tell there was any work done on the bumper. Thumbs up

 

Car looks great Aaron!

 

Thanks for all the great comments guys!

I have not yet and probably will not until there is a proven method of doing it so that it can be as easy as the rear LED's.

 

Aaron, awesome job. Did you install the intake yet?

Dave

 

Your car looks great!! Thinking of sending my car down to Tony son he can test fit some other parts...