Sizzle Chest:
Why do you say that the Porsche Center Locking Hub Nut is a pain in the "butt"? Hard to take off, even with Porsche`s Special Tools, which I assume, you are doing by hand? Or just "difficult" to deal without marring or scratching or damaging the threads or spline recesses/grooves??
I wish I knew if this center lock design is more for a positive lock than "traditional" lugs or as Porsche uses, hub screws OR if this is more of a "cosmetic" design to get away from the hub screws to provide a "cleaner" design for the ultra-lightweight wheel rim. I am not an engineer, but I would think it to be the former, considering the design parameters of a high-performance Porsche models, since the mass (weight) is at the center of the rim and not at the hub bolt-circle of the hub screws. Always design costs and considerations. Or a validation of my father`s quote, "You wanna run with the big dogs you gotta pay like the big dogs."
Excellent detailing workmanship. Not sure I have ever seen or heard of this color "Chalk". Looks almost a "dirty" grey-white, but I bet it grows on you to see it in person.
I assume those wheel covers (grey with the blue circle) in the one pic in the garage were used to protect the ceramic brakes discs (are they ceramic?) during correcting and polishing.
Were the pics in the early morning or late afternoon? Shadows look long and I do not know how your house is situated to the sun.
Ah, the short days of winter. Hey up here in Green Bay, WI the sun comes up at 7:22 AM and sets at 4:13 PM; talk about a short amount of daylight!
I can imagine that some of these high-performance Porsche 911`s you detail do tug at your Porsche-O-phile heartstrings and make you salivate a little to own and drive one of these elite models, but then I reference my father`s saying above and realize we all have to live within our means. Sometimes it is better to be content with what we have and realize how good we really have it.
