Want to know why shop owners stay off the forums? We get tired of being told we are doing something wrong by an armchair engineer who has owned one Porsche and has only worked on HIS car. I speak with Porsche shop owners world wide on a daily basis (and Boxster owners nationwide) I tell everyone to take in all the information you can, but QUALIFY the person giving out the information (what do they do for a living?)
Luckily.. in the Boxster community, you have a LOT of smart people that solve problems!! other Porsche communities are sometimes lacking
In the picture below, we trim off what is the "muffler" We trimmed this first one back a tad too far, but did not get into the actual airbox. After trimming, you will see this "hole" that leads into the air box (or MAF housing)
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