My Porsche 996 Turbo Has New Paint And This Is The Best Day Ever I just got back from a visit to the paint shop, and I’m absolutely giddy. I had a vision in my head of what my Porsche 996 Turbo would look like when the paint was changed from boring and common Seal Grey to the period-correct and gorgeous Ocean Jade Metallic, but I never imagined it would look quite this good. The… Read more…

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I Ordered A Carbon-Fiber Roof For My Porsche 996 Turbo And I Might Throw Up A Little I bought maybe the cheapest Porsche 996 Turbo—that’s right, Jalopnik is a two-Porsche 996 family—on the market a year ago, and I’ve mostly been happily stacking miles on the odometer since then. I have been working on making the car my own with a period-correct set of wheels, some extra carbon trim, and a GT3-style… Read more…

Project 996: New Headlight Projectors Finally Solve The Light Problem The quality of car headlights runs a pretty wide gamut. They’re so variable, even on new cars, that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) had to add a headlight category to its testing and make a good score a requirement for its Top Safety Pick Plus award. On older cars, things get way worse. Read more…

Project 996: Pedals To The Metal (And Carpet, And Plastic) Some modifications you make to your car because they’ll make it faster or handle better. Some you do because it will make it look cooler. Some you do because the stock part is worn out, and it’s the same money to replace it with a performance part. Others, like the Rennline racing pedal set I installed this past… Read more…

Project 996: Refinishing My Crappy, Yellowed Hazy Headlights I swear, it seems like any time I bring up liking the 996-generation 911, the first thing anyone ever mentions is the headlights. The second is the IMS bearing, the third is bore scoring, but the first is definitely the headlights. Here’s the thing, though: they’ve grown on me over the last nine months, and while I… Read more…