Tieu Industries: 2000 Porsche Boxster Build

Tieu Industries Presents the 2000 Porsche Boxster Build

Tieu Industries is proud to present the 2000 Porsche Boxster build which features the debut of the Miles Works Automotive Ultrawide Boxster kit and the Züruck-Date interior conversion, hosted by Toyo Tires at SEMA 2024 located in the Treadpass exhibition.

Preface:

The first-generation Porsche Boxster, introduced in 1996, marked a pivotal moment for Porsche as the company sought to attract a broader audience and secure its financial stability. Designed as a mid-engine roadster with styling cues from the iconic 550 Spyder, the Boxster combined Porsche's performance heritage with a more accessible price point, appealing to a new market segment. This model quickly became a bestseller, significantly boosting Porsche's sales and helping to revitalize the brand's financial health during a challenging period. However, despite its commercial success and balanced driving dynamics, the Boxster faced criticism, particularly from Porsche purists. Examples of the Porsche Boxster can be found on public marketplaces such as Facebook and Craigslist for well under $10,000 in good driving condition.

This donor Boxster was purchased for $2,500 and was in rough shape.

Exterior:

The highlight of this build features the newest body kit design from Miles Works Automotive, the Ultrawide 986 body kit designed and manufactured in Europe using fiberglass. Miles Works Automotive has previously been most known for the 996 Ultrawide body design and now pushes the envelope of imagination and breathes new life to the Porsche Boxster. The kit consists of eight body panels, not including the optional ‘humps’ that take the design to a whole new level. The front fenders, side skirts and rear quarter panels are bonded to the original body to give a clean factory-like appearance. The front bumper is offered in two different designs, Version 1 and Version 2. Version 1 is identical to the 996 Carrera Ultrawide kit, while Version 2 (featured on this build) is a design inspired by the Carrera GT with the Miles Works Automotive twist. The rear section has two unique designs, first being the ‘speedtail’ with about one foot of body extension, and second the ‘clam shell’, which when seen from the rear shows the original Boxster tail light and partial rear bumper shape. This kit is available and can be purchased using this link: Miles Works Ultrawide Boxster Kit.

Miles Works Automotive 996 Carrera Ultrawide body kit:

Miles Works Automotive 986 Ultrawide prototype:

Original renders of the SEMA 986 build:

The paint and body work has been completed by Collision Motor Specialist (CMS) in Houston, Texas with paint materials provided by Sikkens (Akzo Nobel). Azzuro Thetys Blue Metallic, a color originally created by Lamborghini, is now a special Porsche Paint-to-Sample (PTS) offered on the newest Porsche 911. The target for the exterior paint was to choose a color that is considered understated by definition but would seductively draw any onlookers closer as the multitude of shades and colors shift ever so slightly based on lighting and angle changes.

Azzuro Thetys Blue Metallic PTS on a Porsche 718 Spyder:

The lighting for front headlights and rear tail lights, including the rubber seals and gaskets, have been replaced with brand new pieces from Porsche. The front headlights of the Boxster come in two different variations with the ‘Litronic’ version as the highest-end option. Seeing this headlight brand new is uncommon, especially the brown satin color for the smaller fog lights. The tail lights are a ‘Euro’ spec and only show amber for the brake and turn signal lights and white for the reverse light, unlike the ‘US’ spec which has yellow for the turn signals.

Interior:

Another highlight of this build is a newly launched company called Züruck-Date, (Züruck, the German word for ‘Back’). While still in development and shown here as a concept, the Züruck-Date interior conversion transforms the dated original interior design of both the 986 and 996 generation of Porsche sports cars to a mix between the classic ‘water-cooled’ generation 911 and the modern style of the Singer DLS. The idea was conceived and brought to reality within nine weeks with the help of partners located all throughout the United States. The process included scanning the bare interior, CAD designs and files created from scratch, large format 3D printing to bring the shapes into real life, reinforcement using fiberglass and kevlar with carbon fiber skinning as post processing, and final reupholstery to complete the look of a finished high-end interior.

The mission is simple: to redesign the interior in the way Ferdinand Porsche would have approved by stylizing iconic design cues such as the instrument panel, full-length dash trim, and minimalist center console. While the interior panels are familiar to classic 911, every part has been created and designed from the ground up by Herman Del Santos within three weeks of receiving the scan files of the stripped interior. The decision was made early in the process to manufacture the panels using large format commercial 3D prints in PETG filament provided by Illumaesthetic. The Singer DLS touch was added through post processing with carbon fiber as the final layer of the main panels by Nevermore Industries/Rauh Welt East Coast. In addition to the post processing, all other parts in metal and plastic are Cerakoted with Glacier Black and Satin Nickel for a ‘machined-like’ finish. The final finishing touches were completed by E3 Customs using several exotic materials such as Lamborghini red leather, Porsche crème leather, and crème basketweave leather.

Render of the interior conversion:

The five classic 911 ‘water-cooled’ gauges were produced in partnership with Smith Instruments/Caerbont Automotive Instruments, most notably the gauge manufacture for Aston Martin Works classic division, Tuthill Porsche, and the Singer DLS. The inspiration for the Züruck-Date gauges aesthetics and minimalistic design is derived from a wrist watch called the Elegante created by F.P. Journe, and utilizes the white background with black numbers. The numeral design was selected to mimic an old english clock with two rows of numbers to represent hours versus minutes on the clock, M.P.H vs KM/H on the speedometer, and easy to read single digit numbers verus full thousands RPM on the tachometer. The needle is a unique design with a cutout to expose an open triangle accompanied by the satin nickel center. A unique detail that only the most hardcore ‘water-cooled’ enthusiast will notice is the water temperature read out which replaced the original oil level read out.

F.P Journe Elegante:

Singer DLS gauges created by Smith Instruments/Caerbont Automotive Instruments:

Several more features added to accentuate the Singer DLS style. First, carbon fiber bucket seats with custom padding made by E3 Customs. The seat padding takes inspiration from the McLaren Senna with several different variations of the materials through the rest of the interior panels. Asphalt Killers turned down a stock of aluminum to produce a on- of-one shift rod and knob fully integrated as a single part. The shifter features a gusset that matches the classic RS style door handles. Carbontastic provided their MOMO Prototipo, featuring carbon fiber converted spokes with a unique half carbon and half leather wheel. As a final nod to the classic Porsche 911 interior design, Silverlake provided their gusseted style floor boards that are located behind the driver pedals and passenger foot rest.

Footworks:

For tires we chose the Proxes R888R from Toyo Tires due to it being a high performance tire, created originally for the track but also suitable for the street. The front tires are 265/30r19 and rear tires are 325/30r19.

The wheels are a new Miles Works Wheel design that began as an homage to the original Porsche Turbo Twist wheel from the 911. The goal was to keep a familiar look but also evoke emotions by maximizing the width utilizing a 3-piece wheel design, exposing hardware not found on the original, and subtly increasing the proportion of the hyper silver spokes. The front and rear wheel dimensions/specifications are 19x10 -10 and 19x13.5 -70, respectively.

Renders of the Miles Works Wheels Turbo Twist:

Powerplant:

The legendary flat six Porsche engine is brought to life by a high flow WaspTech exhaust system that replaces both secondary catalytic converters with sport 200 cell cats and dual muffler replacement. WaspTech features a unique quad valve system utilizing factory grade valves for reliability. The system is controlled using a perfectly tactile, factory appearance like turn knob with three different sound levels. The knob is located between the window switches and shifter for ease of access.

WaspTech exhaust system for 997:

Numeric Racing establishes the primary connection between driver and drivetrain with their skeletonized short shifter assembly. Custom one-of-one, the assembly was Cerakoted in Satin Nickel to shine bright through the exposed center console.