EVO Intake Install ???'s - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

WillieB · 10-26-2005, 02:03 PM

Steve,

Did it myself as well. What a chore. Long and short is that my mechanic would have taken as long. Remove the clamp between the intake and also the one attached to the engine just past the throttle body. You need to remove this piece in btwn to give you room to move around and get the intake out. Ensure you remove the MAF sensor from the existing tube just after the existing intake & install into the new intake tube provided by Evo. Remove the 3 screws on the existing intake. 2 on top and there is one under the car. You will need a jack and get under the car to do this. You also have to desnkorkel by opening the left intake vent. You will see the snorkel (plastic tube) Push it up down, left, right until it snaps off. Now the existing intake shld move freely. To get it out requires some Yoga. It is a SOB to get out and requires some force. This was the hardest part. Once past this you are home free to go ahead and install which is a piece of cake compared to the removal of the existing intake.

AUDIOGUY · 10-26-2005, 02:25 PM

I agree that this is a bear to install. The hardest part of my install was getting the snorkle separated from the airbox. Mine was ceased on there. I ended up from the bottom cutting the snorkle tube off. Then I also had to cut the airbox in various places to get it out from the side of the intake. Luckily we had air tools available and long blades to go in tight places. Additionally difficult was re-attaching the intake tube to the center tube between the intake manifolds. After a long morning of leaning over the car and constantly checking the covers to make sure not to scratch it, the last long battle was with the intake tube!

All in all, it was well worth it and you will love the improvement with the first open throttle romp.

Best of luck,
Joe
01 S
Triple Black

steve00s · 10-26-2005, 04:08 PM

Thanks a bunch for the insights. Actual experience is worth a bookful of instructions. One last question, is the bolt under the airbox easily accessible from underneath the car? In other words, do I need to remove anything under the car to get at that bolt? The de-snorkeling actually went very easy. The trick was to give it a sharp upward push which broke a little bit of the tab off and it came right out.