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http://www.insideline.com/porsche/boxster/2013/2013-porsche-boxster-prototype-first-ride.htmlby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
but with short legs and a long torso. I like to drive with the seat front up giving me thigh support with the back slanted back. In that case, my head would contact the roll bar solidly should the head jerk back. Enough so I felt I had to adjust the 986 seat down and forward in city driving for safety as opposed to where I wanted it for comfort. On long interstate trips I felt I could adjust fby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Lets say the cat is truly the failure item. Then the ECU is trying within its limits to change the fuel air mixture in response to the signals it is getting from the sensors. That can damage the engine or cause total cat failure...either is expensive. So I wouldn't be driving a lot till I solved the problem. Diagnostic starts/rides should be ok. Here is what I'd do.... I'd read all the codes frby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
consider retrieving the old one from the dealer/mechanic and sending it to Pedro. Ask your mechanic in advance to save the part for you. It is your right in most states.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Jake and I exchanged on this subject. I see he defines 4 stages of failure. At stage 2 the bearing is shedding. At stages 3 and 4 the engine has ingested enough bits that the entire engine must be cleaned/flushed/rebuilt. He says he got detection in 20 minutes after installing a stage 2 bearing that was already rough/shedding. That would imply to me that once the bearing starts grinding itselfby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
There is a big difference in probabilities between an assumption of 5k and one of 500. Since the test Jake said he ran was to go from a known stage-1 failing bearing to detection and since it was triggered in less than 500 miles, I'm thinking the interval between detectable and BOOM may be much less than 5k based on the theory that the bearing shed enough to trigger the detection in a few daysby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
how long between what Jake calls stage 1 and 4. But lets just say it is 500 miles for discussion purposes...would you really want to pull an oil filter every 500 miles? And don't you have to spread out the filter to see any particles? And pulling a magnetic drain plug means all the trouble of catching the oil and refilling the system. Ugh. I always thought 3k was bad enough. My memory is he deteby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Jake’s IMS Detection Device Comments Here is how I understand the issue... The problems are two: you have a possible bearing/lubrication failure and you only check every so often. There is a window...at the point the seal has broken down and the bearing itself starts to wear in its race because it is no longer effectively lubricated. At this point the bearing starts to get rough and then toby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
TIP cars don't replace clutches like manual cars do. And some clutches last 200k miles or 12 years (or more). So there are lots of people who will never get "free trans R&R" to do the IMSR and so their only option is to figure the IMSR as expensive either in their own labor or in shop costs. Not to mention how much more expensive an IMSR is on a TIP equipped car. The problem is we don't knoby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
work on the first to invent and file theory, some operate on the first to file principle...and the US is going that way in March of 2013. When I investigated obtaining a patent for a product for my company in multiple countries, I discovered we had to play by multiple rules. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inventby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
And how would the insurance company know how to price the insurance since only Porsche knows the frequency?by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Have you looked at your CV boots? Might it be grease thrown from a revolving half shaft joint?by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Jake let a few people in on his work to get advance opinions. In my case it was via a series of emails. I raised questions and concerns early on when he shot me several paragraphs of description and a picture or two. Why not get him to consider some questions/needs/mods early on in the product development cycle? Don't we all benefit from many viewpoints affecting product development? I know oneby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
A kit which uses electronics connected to magnets in a oil drain plug replacement to detect when an item internal to the engine is shedding ferrous bits using a technology long used in the Military aircraft industry. Covered in a Nov '11 article in Excellence magazine. Supposed to be user installable in ~2 hours. flat6innovations.comby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
I drove 3 years to high school in one (manifold mounted heater and no defrost..brrr), survived a crash in one that took out the side of a '55 Ford Station Wagon, my son and bride got taken from the church wedding site in one in Northern Germany, and a guy just up the street drives one every day locally (un-mod'ed, original lever brakes and all). They are surprisingly affordable.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
the real vents are inside on the inner body cavity and the huge intake you see is merely a cosmetic cover. Air flow test this and you could have a ram effect or a safety-from-ingestion design that would be shielded from malicious intent acts. Now how to duct the outflow side? But with the possibility of a turbo, you come into an entirely different heat shedding need, don't you? rby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
But I hear you. I complement the Canadians I drove with recently for their lane discipline. I found it so much easier to drive knowing they knew what they were doing. On a two lane road, when we got to three lanes going up a hill I never ever saw someone who didn't go immediately to the right lane. Not to say I didn't get passed, just everyone did it appropriately. Back in the good old USA and itby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
and the only place I saw leaves changing was northern ME. 2 weeks ago on the drive up north from Manchester, saw many Boxsters including a grey beauty parked at the visitors center in Arcadia in ME (PA tags). Surprised that of the P-cars I saw, so many 986s, few 987s, one older 911, one SUV. Lots more than Vettes or Miatas.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
You have discontinued several tire designs commonly used in Porsches yet Porsches are known to need a set of rear tires before the fronts are worn out. Recommendations for replacements strategy. You have used the same marketing model designation for both N-rated and non-rated tires sometimes creating confusion which only a SKU analysis will resolve. Are all N-rated tires sufficiently uniquely iby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
8 and 9k red-lines the number of gauges or data displays...I count at least 15 different onesby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Must not have a torque wrench as the way Porsche would say to approach this would be to check for the correct tightness that way. Though in all honesty the way I'd do it is not approved by Porsche, I'd loosen it a turn or two and then snug it up by hand. I've been doing these oil pan plugs for 50 years plus and my feel has gotten good enough to get close enough to the right snugness or to feelby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
The car he is looking at has no IMS.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
that the very act of tightening the drain plug and thus pinching the crush ring between the plug and the block doesn't slightly compress the crush ring and thus make it less effective in being crushed when you try to use it a second time? Even though we see no deformation, is it effective the second as it was the first time? By effective I'd guess that both sealing and distributing the torque woby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
is exactly what when compared to the amplitude of putting new tires with differing tread depths axle to axle? Under what conditions does a difference exist? Wet, deep wet, cornering at what speed on what surface? Where is the comparative data to back our opinions? My guess is it doesn't exist. So my opinions... With 19" rims, you are stuck because of the need for that rigid sidewall to keep theby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
No IMS in any 2009 Boxster or Cayman.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
doesn't ever show half full...it shows only within a narrow band at almost full. So if you put in 7 quarts, you got into the area where the gauge displays. The bars aren't quarts or litres, they are much less. If you had put in 4 quarts/litres which would be half, you wouldn't even be showing on the gauge. ..at least that was what the 986 manual said IIRC.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
how much % difference there is between a 4 star and a 2 star for example or over how long a period the depreciation is figured...1, 2, 5 years? What is "the lifetime of ownership" they say they used?by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
and add a sold post under the post once an item is sold. That should reduce the confusion for buyer and seller....but requires some extra work on the part of the seller. Oh horrors.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Board suggestions
or the oil filter and dump a filter's worth. You want it between the lines, not at the top of the top bar.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
you also get a manufacturers warranty to protect you from a lemon (in most cases). And since modern sedans are good for 150k miles or more, you have some real mileage to use if the car is maintained. A car out of favor because of styling is the Acura...if thought of as a value purchase it could be a good buy if you plan to run it for a long time. If she doesn't like that but wants a plus-mobileby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum