Posted on 04/06/2021 6:34:46 AM PDT by mylife
Do you ever get to a point in a multi-year project where you start to lose steam and you’re worried that the thing that used to be a car sitting on your QuickJacks in the garage is rapidly transforming into a really expensive paperweight? Lately that’s how I’ve been feeling about my Boxster. I used to love this car, but then I decided to turn it into an ambitious electrified track car and it’s been in various states of disassembly ever since. Well, over the weekend I hacked off the windshield, and I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited about moving forward with the project.
Illustration for article titled Porsche Put 54 Pounds Of Extra Weight In My Car To Make It Nicer To Drive, So I Threw It Away Porsche Put 12 Pounds Of Extra Weight In My Car To Make It Nicer To Drive, So I Threw It Away There is nothing I despise more than concessions to comfort in a sports car.
The last time I took some weight out of one of my Porsche project cars you folks in the comments section had a lot to say about it. It’s unsafe. It’s not what the German engineers intended. It’s going to completely screw up the handling! And that was just a small anti-vibration weight hanging off the engine mount of an entry level model Porsche forgot about pretty much as soon as it ended production in 1976! I can only imagine what you’ll think of me removing something actually useful like a shield for wind. I bet it’ll be similar to my mother’s reaction when I told her I’d quit my job to become a writer.
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But what the hell, the only Porsche I ever owned was stuffed in a VW van
I was going to disassemble my Porsche after I dissassemble my Lamborghini.
What do yo call a souped of FolksVagen that out runs and out handles a Porsche?
A Por-Shee! I’m glad I did not waste all that money on a Porsche!
harbor freight windshield removal tool...
The harbor freight brand “ICON” are very well made* tools
*(Chinese made tools granted, but even Snap-On is increasingly made in China, and ICON tools were made to specifically compete with Snap-On)
I would love a karmen ghia with a porsche engine and trans
well, if everyone is doing it... /s
LOL!
In a just world Harbor Freight would be bombed by the Weather Underground daily. But it is not a just world.
Jack Daniels put 200 lbs 8j the passenger seat of my pickup but I didn’t throw her out.
Non magnetic too! suitable for ordnance work!
the quality of harbor freight wrenches and socket sets have improved and are impressive...
been using them for a couple years now...
i converted a harley davidson motorcycle into a trike (frankenstein trike kit) a year ago and only used harbor freight mechanics tools as an experiment...
not one problem at all...
Non-sparking bronze. Nice.
take corners slow...
It was written in a way where even I could follow and understand.
It was GREAT!
P.S. I know next to nothing about cars, so it is a really nice surprise!
Salamander? I’d like you to meet heavy metal,
heavy metal, Salamander.
Salamander, heavy metal...
actually it was for my father and i warned him about cornering and never put your feet down until you come to a complete stop...
the kit came with a raked triple tree setup for the forks to improve cornering...
try flipping the geometry around like CanAm ;)
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