To de-snorkel or not to de-snorkel, that is the question.

[messing]

Thanks for all of the responses. I decided to give it a go. It took all of 3 min. The bad news is I broke off one of the three clips. The good news is it does sound much better. At least for my 986 there was a large difference. As far as the performance it feels more peppy. It may just be a mental thing but I swear it seems to have a better throttle response. Anyway, I am happy with it for now. I'll respond back in a week or so with an update.

[Lil bastard]

Can you say PLACEBO EFFECT (soon to be renamed the Obama Effect)?

It does absolutely nothing for performance whatever - it's a sound abatement device, nothing more.

It does improve the intake sound, and that's reason enough to do the mod.

But just don't kid yourself that you've unleashed some hidden HP Genie.

Cheers!

[sasha055]

Just removed my snorkel! found couple of interesting things about my car..

First .. on US cars snorkel is on the driver's side right? I hope I didn't ripp-off something in a wrong place

It seems that PO tried to remove the snorkel .. 2 out of 3 tabs on the grille were broken.. and snorkel was stuck.. it took me almost 20min of gentle wiggling to make it move

Now as far as results...

1. Sound.. no improvements at all.. it seems (PLACEBO?) that it has more growl on idle and low rpms.. however on high rpms .. it's exactly same sound.. and I know how my car sounds at 4-5K rpm.. I'm that guy that is cruising at 4k rpms.. I know I know.. my mileage sucks

2. Power.. it maybe placebo.. but it seems that it got more torque especially in 1st and second gear at low rpms.. over 4K no visible improvements..

3. Best part: The engine is MUUUCH smoother.. before I could feel a bit of engine vibration on low RPMS.. now it's smooth as butter.

There was maybe something wrong with my car before.. but removing snorkel had an amazing effect on engine smootheness, maybe that's why I feel like it got more torque..

There was absolutely ZERO sound improvements.. I'm kinda disapointed a little bit

Thanks
Sasha

PS: my car is a 2000 2.7 boxster with 76K miles

[ddb]

sasha055,

Yes, you worked on the correct side.

I have a 2000 2.7 too and experienced similar results, especially when I had the OE exhaust installed and OE air filter. That is I didn't notice a big change at high RPM's. Like you I noticed the biggest change right off idle. It is like the initial gulp of additional air right after the clutch engages makes a nice whoosh sound. Now that I've changed the exhaust and air filter I don't notice the low RPM improvement as much, or at all.

ddb