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Porsche Boxster with a Porsche Carrera gt body kit?

In the next month or so I will probably buy a Boxster and I've recently become interested in modifying it with a Carrera gt body kit. My question is how much will the full kit cost with and without the installation fee. Also whats the best place to buy the kit? Another thing I wonder is do the kits actually look good or do they look bad fake? Can you buy the kits according to the color of the car or is it better to just put the kit on and then give the car a paint job so they will match? Also please give me your opinions on the body kit. Thanks. P.S. I'll probably buy a Boxster or Boxster S thats from around 2003( are the kits different if the cars a different year, model).

Public Comments

1. nobody puts a body kit on a porsche dude... those are performance machines not toys.
2. Ugh. Don't do it. It'll look fake, bad, and crappy. To be honest, you will look like a fool driving around in it. AND, it will totally kill any resale value. I shudder to think of any Porsche groaning under the ugliness, extra weight, and increased aerodynamic drag caused by such a travesty. Do you think some chumps who rigged up some fiberglass molds know better than the experts at Porsche? They don't. I was not aware that "body kits" were available for Boxsters, but adding poorly-built aftermarket parts to any vehicle - much less a well-designed and superbly-engineered machine such as a Porsche - is a BAD idea in every way.
3. There are various ways to go about this... if you actually want a Boxster that looks like a Carrera GT, it would involve buying Carrera GT body panels as available, and hiring a professional capable of high end fabrication work to finish out whatever else is needed, and then having a chassis specialist cut up the Boxster and then re-extend the chassis as a tube-frame structure with which to attach the body panels. Of course, there's a reason people aren't doing that... you'd spend about $50k on the body panels from Porsche, another $50k on the fabrication, another $50k for the chassis work, another $50-100k on getting it assembled and various unanticipated issues that come up with such projected (and maybe more on that too). All of which would leave you with a car that is worth pretty much the same as any other Boxster (thus, if you have a few hundred thousand around to do this, you would probably find it cheaper in the long run to buy an actual Carrera GT since it would not lose as much value). But, if you want to simply get a Boxster that looks like a Boxster with an ill fitting body kit that is trying to look like a Carrera GT, and from a satellite photo might actually be mistaken for one? Body panels from any place that produces quality work will run around $10k (you can get it for less, but expect to spend the difference in price in labor time in trying to get the parts to actually fit). Labor for install and paint will usually run about the same as the parts, so roughly $20k all done. As you spend less it will look worse (and from the view of many, even if done in a quality manner, it won't look that good). On the plus side, if you do it correclty with quality parts, it will probably not detract too much value from the vehicle if you ever choose to sell it (if done on the cheap at all, it will dramatically cut the car's potential value).
4. There is only one reason for a body kit, that does not kill the value but actually increases it. And that is if there has been a bad accident that rippled so much of the sheet metal, that covering it would cost less than repairing it. So if you like body kits, then buy a cheap wreck and go for it. Most people will not be able to tell, and it will still drive great, without spending as much money.
5. Hello, I currently have a 2000 Boxster 2.7L. I have looked at many body kits, but I only found a Carrera GT kit for the 2005+ Boxster's. And it costs over $26,000 for the kit. As for the 1997-2004 Boxsters, there are 997 GT3 conversions. You can make your Boxster look just like a Porsche 911 GT3 in the front for just $5000 with paint and installation.
6. A kit like that on a Porsche might make it look fake. After all, these are super German cars, not lousy toy Japanese cars. But if you really want it, then get a GT3 bodykit on it instead, that will look more realistic and in my opinion nicer to look at.
7. i swear to god as a porsche 911 owner if i do see a riced up porsche even such as the boxster model i shall debadge that miserabile porsche's crests off his car and stick a honda logo on it! and if its an automadic riced up porsche? omg i will tow that car to the junk yard and destroy it myself!!! it must be done to save humanity!