Issue while trying to de-snorkel

[Homeboy981]

Careful with the tabs on the outer grill…they will break!

Overdrive, if your airbox is making your hands black with soot…just image how your engine feels! Clean it up…all the way into the throttle body and beyond into the manifold. It should clean, clean, clean! In case you are wondering why the car misses or hesitates…that is one place to start!

Also, the side intake port is just a hole, the snorkel is attached to the airbox. De-snorking does not allow warm air from the engine into the airbox. You need to remove the whole assembly for that to occur.

The incoming "air" has to navigate through all this before it gets to the engine. Cut the path, increase the air flow. Simple, just not easy, as you have discovered. Certainly do-able and rewarding.