That turned out Great !! Thank you for posting the pictures, for more information about the Side Markers when your ready Click Here. Enjoy, you have a stunning looking car

 

That is a beautiful mod, m3racer08. I am interested in doing something similar for my black 2008 C2, perhaps during the winter months. I am in Westchester, so not very far.

 

The only part from NR that i have is the wing which which fits perfect because its a direct bolt on where the existing pop up wing was located. I don't know about anything else that they sell.

 

Thank you very much. I'll be sure to order from you guys when im ready. I use to get most of my BMW items from ECS. Your pricing and customer service was always just right.
Thanks and good luck, be sure to shoot me a message if there is anything i can help you out with.

 

I have no idea how you did the springs in 4 hours, unless you were working in a shop. It took me at least 15 hours. Now granted it was my first time on the Porsche suspension and I had to make many trips to the store for various tools I didn't have. But even today with experience and all the proper tools I seriously doubt I could replace the springs in 4 hours only.

At some point in the not too distant future I'm gonna have to do the shocks, and I'm kinda kicking myself for not buying them in the first place when I did the springs.

 

How many miles on your shocks

 

I have 36k miles on my car. I don't know how long the shocks will last, I'll be happy if I get to 50k on them. However with the new Eibach springs I think (hope) I would get a bit better control of my rebound if I was using Bilstein Sport shocks instead of the OEMs that are on there now.

 

I've done a lot of automotive work in the past to all my cars so although this was my first time on the porsche i already had a good idea of what needs to be done. 4 hours was long time so i couldn't imagine 15hrs. Next time around it will be less then 4 hrs. Granted i was at my buddies shop but i only did it there in the event i ran into any issues. I did the job on the floor with jacks and regular hand tools. Never did i use any power tools or any type of spring compressor (dangerous i know but i'm use to working like a caveman LOL). Good luck next time around buddy.

 

How can you remove the spring strut/shock assembly without a spring compressor?

On my car that was absolutely impossible without removing the lower control arms and throwing off the alignment. I suspect it would also require a ball joint separator (which I didn't have). I left the lower control arms attached to the car and did use a spring compressor (which takes forever).

I'm very curious about how you did it now. Maybe there's some other form of disassembly that I'm not aware of?

You say you did it on the floor without a lift? Jeez just raising the car, removing the wheels, brake calipers and all the trim pieces to get to the top of the shock assembly would take at least hour it seems.


QUOTE=m3racer08;3872056]I've done a lot of automotive work in the past to all my cars so although this was my first time on the porsche i already had a good idea of what needs to be done. 4 hours was long time so i couldn't imagine 15hrs. Next time around it will be less then 4 hrs. Granted i was at my buddies shop but i only did it there in the event i ran into any issues. I did the job on the floor with jacks and regular hand tools. Never did i use any power tools or any type of spring compressor (dangerous i know but i'm use to working like a caveman LOL). Good luck next time around buddy.[/QUOTE]

 

M3racer... Awesome build!! I'm looking at buying a gt3 rear bumper. Only thing tat stops me is the exhaust center convention.

 

Thank you. They have the non-center exhaust GT3 rear bumper also you know. The exhaust conversion can turn it into an expensive conversion so some people just go with the quad tip exhaust bumper that's standard on the carrera. Only thing with that is you will not archive that true GT3 look.

 

Great build. If you plan to track the car as much as you mentioned in the OP you may want to look into the GT2/GT3 seats, a harness, and a removable cage. Just depends how fast you want to go around corners...ECS or Suncoast has a ton of racing gear. Great work again

 

Thanks for the complement and advice. Im actually in the market right now for a bolt in cage. I checked ECS but didn't see where they offered one for sale. Instead of buying GT3 seats can't i just take the existing one out?

 

Cage options: GMG, RSS, Techquipment, there may be others, these are the most popular with the GT3 crowd. For front seats, either GT2 (EXPENSIVE) or GT3 (VERY EXPENSIVE) or Recaros (Like I have) along with the appropriate harnesses and sub mounts. Stock seats will not support a harness. Suncoast sells a "rear seat delete" kit for the carreras, which is basically a set of covers/plates for the various mounting points for the rear seats. The GT3/2 comes with no rear seats.

 

Dang dude u went all out. Im looking at a 997.2 turbo... 10months later I want more power