I had a bad habit of setting Autotrader alerts for things and then this car popped up. 102k mile 2009 997.2 C2 6 speed. In New fuckin' Jersey. Rust zone, pot holes, idiots, etc. So I did the right thing, sold my nice Boxster and bought it last year. I've put about 10k miles on it since last June and probably about $10k dollars with more to come. Speakers are still blown and it desperately needs a paint correction. Nabster and I cannonballed this thing back to Dallas over 1600 miles in a weekend from NJ. Stupid, but worth it.
From the seller's ad (it was wearing undersized winter tires lol)
After I got it home, I had my local dealer PPI it, replaced the one end link that was bad and promptly went on a roadtrip to New Mexico with Nabster and Crazyjeeper.
NJ did a number on the suspension, so all four struts were done. Before pic from December. It was a faff and a half. Parts hunting and paying someone else to disassemble and reassemble the struts dragged on for a month or so.
Parked next to my old coworker's GT350 in March. You can tell that Nabster's headlight polishing made quite the difference. Also added radiator grilles because I am not gonna let another rock take out a radiator or AC condenser.
The unlock button fell off my key a week later lol. Fortunately, I have two keys and the shells are cheap to replace with eBay ones.
Thanks for coming to my 997 talk. Seriously though, childhood dream. I still have to pinch myself every once in a while. I need to get it out for a track day or at least some autocrossing.
From the seller's ad (it was wearing undersized winter tires lol)
After I got it home, I had my local dealer PPI it, replaced the one end link that was bad and promptly went on a roadtrip to New Mexico with Nabster and Crazyjeeper.
NJ did a number on the suspension, so all four struts were done. Before pic from December. It was a faff and a half. Parts hunting and paying someone else to disassemble and reassemble the struts dragged on for a month or so.
Parked next to my old coworker's GT350 in March. You can tell that Nabster's headlight polishing made quite the difference. Also added radiator grilles because I am not gonna let another rock take out a radiator or AC condenser.
The unlock button fell off my key a week later lol. Fortunately, I have two keys and the shells are cheap to replace with eBay ones.
Thanks for coming to my 997 talk. Seriously though, childhood dream. I still have to pinch myself every once in a while. I need to get it out for a track day or at least some autocrossing.
). Searching ebay and PCA classifieds for stock exhausts kept yielding options that were either too expensive or too far away. 
) for $500. Snatched them up and got them on.