What did you do to/with your 996 today?

[02TX996Cab]

On that note, BILLY, how do you take it out anyways?

Please Lord, let us hope his answer does not include either candlelight or Kenny G music playing softly in the background

[32wildbilly]

On that note, BILLY, how do you take it out anyways?

Like this:

Honestly I have never messed with the headlight assemblies and seldom use turn signals because I don't want to mess with the headlight assemblies...

No really seriously it seems to be pretty easy. Unlatch the headlight assy through the frunk. Pull it out(see video above). Locate and turn signal bulb holder to unlatch. Pull it out(see video above). Replace the missing bulb. Reverse sequence. Voila! It at least should be something like that but I really don't know.

Thanks folks I'll be here all week...seriously!

[32wildbilly]

On that note, BILLY, how do you take it out anyways?

Please Lord, let us hope his answer does not include either candlelight or Kenny G music playing softly in the background

Full darkness(don't want to frighten my partner) and maybe Journey.

Kenny G...?

[JayG]

On that note, BILLY, how do you take it out anyways?

Like this:

Honestly I have never messed with the headlight assemblies and seldom use turn signals because I don't want to mess with the headlight assemblies...

No really seriously it seems to be pretty easy. Unlatch the headlight assy through the frunk. Pull it out(see video above). Locate and turn signal bulb holder to unlatch. Pull it out(see video above). Replace the missing bulb. Reverse sequence. Voila! It at least should be something like that but I really don't know.

Thanks folks I'll be here all week...seriously!

yea, that's what I though too.......

[Dr_Strangelove]

Unlatch the headlight assy through the frunk. Pull it out(see video above). Locate and turn signal bulb holder to unlatch. Pull it out(see video above). Replace the missing bulb. Reverse sequence. Voila! It at least should be something like that but I really don't know.

Thanks folks I'll be here all week...seriously!

Hey thanks! Before I consulted the Google I was primarily curious if they had thought to give us an easy access port or if I had to pull the assembly forward to access it and it sounds like it's the first thing.

Happy weekend Billy!

[theprf]

I cleaned 180k miles of brake dust out of the front wheel wells in prep for some suspension upgrades.

[FRUNKenstein]

I cleaned 180k miles of brake dust out of the front wheel wells in prep for some suspension upgrades.

Do tell about the upgrades, por favor.

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[theprf]

Here we go:
I have to bail on the two April track days because my car isn't usable. I will have some great stuff when I finally get on track.

• Track wheels, forged 18x12 and 18x10 lightweight wheels, NT01 in 245/40-18 and 305/35-18. Don't have the wheels yet, ETA May 1st.
• GT2 front wheel carriers (steering knuckles, uprights) with all new supporting parts. Done!
• GT3 adjustable front swaybar with Tarett extended drop links. Done!
• 997 Turbo 6-pot front brakes with slotted 997 Turbo 350mm rotors. The rotors don't work with GT2 uprights, I am having special rotor spacers made to run them. ETA 4/20.
• 997 Turbo rear brakes with slotted 997 Turbo 350mm rotors to correct the excessive front brake bias. Done!
• 997 GT2RS front fender liners and brake cooling ducts. Not installed yet.
• 996 GT2 rear brake cooling ducts. ETA 4/18
• AWD delete, removed cardan shaft, front diff, and front driveshafts. These weigh 77.3 pounds altogether. Done!
• Moton motorsport 2-way remote reservoir dampers. These ought to be sweet! Front done! Rear not installed yet.
• And the pièce de résistance, manual transmission swap with a rebuilt 996 Turbo gearbox. A combo of 997 GT3RS and 996 CUP parts including a pumped trans cooler should make it durable, a Guard plate type LSD should make it work really well. No ETA on this one, 5th gear is on galactic backorder . So I will be running the Tiptronic as RWD until I get this.
• The supporting mods for the gearbox swap include a Numeric shifter and cables and a recoded ECU and manual trans instrument cluster. I had to send my Tip ECU to get the coding correct on my manual ECU so I have NO ECU AT ALL right now. ETA 4/18. Thanks to some help from a friend in Delaware and a lot of ebay scrounging I have almost all the other parts for the swap - I only need the furthest aft blue clutch hydraulic line from a Mk2 996 (C2/C4/C4S/GT2/GT3) - anyone have an extra?
• I also have a 997 Turbo brake master cylinder and a harness bar, neither is installed yet.

What's installed looks pretty nice, though.
Front suspension parts, the whole thing is equipped with monoballs/heim joints. I'm using Elephant LCA's up here and Tarett caliper studs.

Brakes installed, the 997 Turbo rotors are 0.076"/2mm further inboard than the proper rotors for these wheel carriers so I am having shims laser cut from 0.076 304 Stainless. The shims push the rotor disks 2mm outboard to align them with the calipers. It's also necessary to relocate the brake pipes from front to rear of the brackets installed on the body and reroute a lot of other bits.

The AWD hardware. It's lighter than it looks, 77.3 pounds. The GT2 front wheel carriers don't work with the AWD setup.

Rear brakes with the 997 Turbo calipers. These are 34mm x 2 pistons instead of 32mm and 30mm. More brake force reduces the excessive front brake bias. The dampers are the PSS9's because I haven't put the Motons on back here yet. I have an Eibach adjustable sway bar and GT3 LCA's with Tarret monoball inners, and Phenix Engineering monoball dogbones. I thinkthe wheel wells cleaned up pretty nicely for a car with almost 180k on the clock.

The gearbox on the way out to be rebuilt. I bought it as a "good used" unit. It's definitely used, not so much good as the only pieces that are reusable are the ring & pinion, LSD, and 4th and 6th gear sets. It's been waiting on a 5th gear set since 1/9/2022.

[FRUNKenstein]

Here we go:
I have to bail on the two April track days because my car isn't usable. I will have some great stuff when I finally get on track.

• Track wheels, forged 18x12 and 18x10 lightweight wheels, NT01 in 245/40-18 and 305/35-18. Don't have the wheels yet, ETA May 1st.
• GT2 front wheel carriers (steering knuckles, uprights) with all new supporting parts. Done!
• GT3 adjustable front swaybar with Tarett extended drop links. Done!
• 997 Turbo 6-pot front brakes with slotted 997 Turbo 350mm rotors. The rotors don't work with GT2 uprights, I am having special rotor spacers made to run them. ETA 4/20.
• 997 Turbo rear brakes with slotted 997 Turbo 350mm rotors to correct the excessive front brake bias. Done!
• 997 GT2RS front fender liners and brake cooling ducts. Not installed yet.
• 996 GT2 rear brake cooling ducts. ETA 4/18
• AWD delete, removed cardan shaft, front diff, and front driveshafts. These weigh 77.3 pounds altogether. Done!
• Moton motorsport 2-way remote reservoir dampers. These ought to be sweet! Front done! Rear not installed yet.
• And the pièce de résistance, manual transmission swap with a rebuilt 996 Turbo gearbox. A combo of 997 GT3RS and 996 CUP parts including a pumped trans cooler should make it durable, a Guard plate type LSD should make it work really well. No ETA on this one, 5th gear is on galactic backorder . So I will be running the Tiptronic as RWD until I get this.
• The supporting mods for the gearbox swap include a Numeric shifter and cables and a recoded ECU and manual trans instrument cluster. I had to send my Tip ECU to get the coding correct on my manual ECU so I have NO ECU AT ALL right now. ETA 4/18. Thanks to some help from a friend in Delaware and a lot of ebay scrounging I have almost all the other parts for the swap - I only need the furthest aft blue clutch hydraulic line from a Mk2 996 (C2/C4/C4S/GT2/GT3) - anyone have an extra?
• I also have a 997 Turbo brake master cylinder and a harness bar, neither is installed yet.

That's some serious car porn right there. I used to feel pretty good about myself when I change my own oil. I feel less good now.

[32wildbilly]

Here we go:
I have to bail on the two April track days because my car isn't usable. I will have some great stuff when I finally get on track.

• Track wheels, forged 18x12 and 18x10 lightweight wheels, NT01 in 245/40-18 and 305/35-18. Don't have the wheels yet, ETA May 1st.
• GT2 front wheel carriers (steering knuckles, uprights) with all new supporting parts. Done!
• GT3 adjustable front swaybar with Tarett extended drop links. Done!
• 997 Turbo 6-pot front brakes with slotted 997 Turbo 350mm rotors. The rotors don't work with GT2 uprights, I am having special rotor spacers made to run them. ETA 4/20.
• 997 Turbo rear brakes with slotted 997 Turbo 350mm rotors to correct the excessive front brake bias. Done!
• 997 GT2RS front fender liners and brake cooling ducts. Not installed yet.
• 996 GT2 rear brake cooling ducts. ETA 4/18
• AWD delete, removed cardan shaft, front diff, and front driveshafts. These weigh 77.3 pounds altogether. Done!
• Moton motorsport 2-way remote reservoir dampers. These ought to be sweet! Front done! Rear not installed yet.
• And the pièce de résistance, manual transmission swap with a rebuilt 996 Turbo gearbox. A combo of 997 GT3RS and 996 CUP parts including a pumped trans cooler should make it durable, a Guard plate type LSD should make it work really well. No ETA on this one, 5th gear is on galactic backorder . So I will be running the Tiptronic as RWD until I get this.
• The supporting mods for the gearbox swap include a Numeric shifter and cables and a recoded ECU and manual trans instrument cluster. I had to send my Tip ECU to get the coding correct on my manual ECU so I have NO ECU AT ALL right now. ETA 4/18. Thanks to some help from a friend in Delaware and a lot of ebay scrounging I have almost all the other parts for the swap - I only need the furthest aft blue clutch hydraulic line from a Mk2 996 (C2/C4/C4S/GT2/GT3) - anyone have an extra?
• I also have a 997 Turbo brake master cylinder and a harness bar, neither is installed yet.

What's installed looks pretty nice, though.

That stuff sure am purdy! That is going to handle like it is on rails.