Slurms

18 hours ago, phazed said:

Will be interesting to hear if you do notice a difference, which I doubt. Best to try and notice a difference when on track. Always easy to think that something makes a difference.

 

Will be interesting to hear if you do notice a difference, which I doubt. Best to try and notice a difference when on track. Always easy to think that something makes a difference.

It’s always made me smile when I had TVR’s. You would read on the forum that someone with a 300 BHP engine, that they noticed the difference, when fitting smoothbore silicon hoses, that probably added three BHP!

Well back to back testing on the road - there is a difference in steering feel.  

Does that actually translate to improved performance or capability beyond a slight difference in steering sensation? Who knows, I'll have a better idea after I get it on track at the end of next month.

On 5/21/2023 at 11:48 AM, phazed said:

Just why tuppence worth, again.

After doing another track day in my 987.1 last week, I still can’t except that these struts are anything but a placebo effect. My car is completely standard. I run it on sport setting and sticky track tyres. Taking corners at speeds of 90 mph, the car feels perfectly planted. Steering rocksteady, no scuttle shake, car feeling exceptionally stable with all four tyres slightly drifting across the track. How these little bits of metal can make any difference to a body shell that is designed to be stiff is beyond me. Even if it did make the tiniest bit of difference, you would never feel it at road speeds. Do yourselves a favour and book up a track day. You will see what I mean. You will be doing speeds on corners like you have never thought the car  would do. In the afternoon, I followed a race driver for a very short while on a couple of occasions. He was driving an Exige 380. Believe me, the Porsche wasn’t that far behind him in the corners, although I certainly was left on the straights! These really are exceptional cars in standard form. Save your money, spend it on fuel and go for a drive, (or a track day….).

 

 

Well i've run my car on track several times without them so i'll tell you if I think it makes a difference with them.

TBH for the little it costs to do it - why not?

Just fitted this to my 987.2 using the parts list from the first page. 
 

all fitted no problem. 
 

only things which maybe a Gen 2 car specific item are the central ‘legs’ have body clips in not bolts on my car and you have to remove the two bolts holding the  metal cage over the air filter as well. 
 

on mine there was also an additional lead which had to be disconnected but that maybe tracker / vts or similar. 

5 hours ago, ½cwt said:

Quaife

I’ve heard good things about them from some of my friends who’ve tracked BMWs. Just hoping for a bit of real world feedback before I drop a load of cash on it. 
 

doing the front strut brace mod next week I hope.  My car appears to be one of the ones that has the turret mounts so that’s a cheaper upgrade. 

Hey All, 

Anyone retro fitted an LSD to a gen 2 987? I've heard there is a rare factory option for the LSD (which my car doesn't have) and as i'm doing a few more track days this year i'm thinking about getting one to improve the cars performance. 

On 2/27/2023 at 12:36 PM, Richard Hamilton said:

They use the same DME for lots of different models, and program a different fuel map for each when the DME is fitted - either at the factory, or by the dealer.

Thanks Richard, so it looks like a different map then, likely explains the advertised gains by some of the aftermarket tuners as they're really only applying a slightly modified Cayman map to the Boxster. 

I’ve got a box of them in the garage. Bought a few pairs because it does seem to happen every so often. 

On 2/14/2023 at 4:58 PM, lawrencequinn said:

This link is to the same question in 2020.

 

I have a 2.9 Boxster and I don't think you would notice 10 more bhp. They are brilliant little cars that can use all their performance almost legally. They hold their value well too.

Interesting, so it looks like it’s just a map difference then. Same engine but the Cayman is mapped to produce maximum power at 7,200 the boxster at 6,400. 
 

in practical daily driving its not likely you’d notice 10hp but I do wonder if the higher redline provides different characteristics. I’ve never drive a 2.9 cayman to compare with my Boxster only the 3.4s which is a different animal. 

On 8/31/2021 at 1:20 PM, Slurms said:

I've a friend who ran these at a recent trackday. They did well, ok not up to the kind of performance from Cup2s or something else thats really specialist. But they'll be my next choice especially as they do them in a huge range of sizes. 

To update this in case anyone else is thinking about tyres for road and light track use..... Don't go for the Bridgestone Potenza Sport. They're decent road tyres but can't cope with track work at all. 

When they were launched the Cayman was supposed to have a 10hp advantage over the Boxster but I've been told the engines are functionally identical. 

If so is this just a software setting? Can you liberate 10hp more from the boxster engine with little effort? Or was there some technical change somewhere?

On 8/5/2021 at 6:51 PM, Lennym1984 said:

The new Bridgestone potenza sport tyres are getting good reviews. That's what I plan to try next

I've a friend who ran these at a recent trackday. They did well, ok not up to the kind of performance from Cup2s or something else thats really specialist. But they'll be my next choice especially as they do them in a huge range of sizes. 

So that’s what I’ve tried, the problem I’ve had is that it just seems to open the menu when doing the corner tapping bit. I’ve got to be doing this wrong somehow. 

Has anyone been able to change the startup splash screen on this unit?

I've tried the previous top left bottom left button press combinations but all that seems to do is open the menu rather than accessing the installer menu as show in youtube videos for older kenwood units. 

On 4/3/2021 at 4:18 PM, Patrick1964 said:

Re the USB cable in the cubbyhole, I did this with a USB socket like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B082VT4VSH/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_0YX096PFJZVX4HQYQFPN?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I didn’t bother with a DAB head unit as the windscreen aerials are not terribly good unless you have a strong signal - whereas using apps such as BBC Sounds means I can listen to digital stations anywhere I get a phone signal.

Don't suppose you have any images of where you put the USB socket? 

I've just completed the same install in my 987.2 and wanted to run the USB into the cubby but wasn't sure exactly where to mount it.