Upgrade: Pucks Refined

Refinement.

If there was a single word to describe the continuous progression of the Porsche Boxster, this might be the one. For Porsche in general, actually.

Just look at the 911. Over the decades it has continually evolved, each successive generation building on the prior. You can see it in the design language, always familiar, a continual evolution. 

Same goes for all four generations of the Boxster platform. Each one taking the good bits from the one before and refining them into something even better.

So let's talk about jacking up the car, either with a hand jack, or something as posh as the QuickJack Andrew has in place in his garage.

Getting a jack underneath such a low car, and then getting it properly positioned is a bid of a faff, but with a little ingenuity and trial and testing, we came up with something that worked a treat in the end.

Hunting around on the internet located some commercially readily-available solutions, but for rather high costs! 

When we took a closer look, however, we realized they were nothing more than hockey pucks essentially, with a 'toggle' on the top to allow them to be inserted into special locating holes underneath the car.

With that in mind, and with the help of a friend with a 3D printer, we REFINED the design of the jack 'pucks' to be something a little better.

I know, I know, the refinement link is a bit of a stretch, but with the rain chucking it down all last week and weekend, there's not been a lot of driving to write about.

Thanks to a friend of Andrew's who had the requisite equipment and skills,  we printed little 'keys' to allow the pucks to be inserted into the underside of the 718's jack points and then turned 90°, locking them in place.

This holds them to the car, making messing around trying to get them aligned a thing of the past, plus no longer needing to carefully make sure they don't fall off the jack when lifting it into position.

We drilled out holes in the top of the pucks and then inserted the keys, glueing them into position to hold fast. A couple of trial runs for the right depth of hole, and cutting the 'keys' to the right length and we were good to go. 

A touch of coloured marker to indicate the correct orientation and there you have it.

Pucks refined. 

(now to clean those filthy rockers!!!)

~ Luke