Desnorkeled???????? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

boxster_s_boy_34 · 10-29-2008, 04:50 AM

I'm not really sure of what desnorkeling a car is exactly doing. I'm sure that I could have looked it up some where in the forums, but I would much rather have it spelled out for me so that I get it. I got the whole deambering thing that seems to be going around ( lots of made up words) but I don't have the foggiest idea as to what desnorkeling is.

kabel · 10-29-2008, 05:22 AM

search????????

I'm sure that I could have responded with something helpful but I'm feeling frisky this morning

Frodo · 10-29-2008, 05:45 AM

+1 on that...there's TONs of posts on that subject, pics and all.

boxster_s_boy_34 · 10-29-2008, 06:02 AM

Never mind, I read all about it and I get it now! Not that big of a deal because I have an evo motorsports intake already so it doesn't even matter at this point.

boxster_s_boy_34 · 10-29-2008, 06:07 AM

I love that fact that some people make things up as the go along and then expect everyone else who owns a boxster to know THEIR terminology so here it goes.... irregardliessly I am going to put a chingadera on my high speed gafinator puck with reverse flow grooves!

rzucchet · 10-29-2008, 07:55 AM

I did a search for "chingadera on my high speed gafinator puck with reverse flow grooves", but didn't get any hits. It sounds cool. Can you elaborate??

tamarsha · 10-29-2008, 08:52 AM

A chingadera on my high speed gafinator puck with reverse flow grooves will give you some pretty good HP gains (57+) but only if you put in a larger flux capacitor.

kabel · 10-29-2008, 08:56 AM

^ which are all on back order, because there is only only one mfg making the secondary flux-recic coil for the primary power unit

Boxtaboy · 10-29-2008, 09:18 AM

Speaking of desnorking, anyone here resnork? I resnorked recently after having my car desnorked for almost a year, because of a perceived loss of power at highway speeds with the snork tube out (when the airflow differences would be most relevant).

I always had an inkling that the curved trumpet at the end of the snork must somehow smooth out the airflow into the intake to allow a better MAF reading, and that removing it would leave a highly turbulent and uneven flow of air because of all the rough waffle edges in the intake area left after removing the tube.

Before resnorking, however, I removed the cup at the end of the snork, as I thought the cup at the end was a further restriction that was added to help prevent cigarette butts and water from entering the intake. In 2003, the factory removed the cup from the snork tube, and instead put in a mesh screen behind to address those issues of debris entry. Anyway, after resnorking, I do feel that the power at speed has come back, but am not sure if it is all in my mind or not.

wconley · 10-29-2008, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by rzucchet

I did a search for "chingadera on my high speed gafinator puck with reverse flow grooves", but didn't get any hits. It sounds cool. Can you elaborate??

You should have searched on the less obvious. "Irregardless" is not a word...

But while I do agree that some of these terms like "desnorkelling" are confusing to the nubie (I kept wondering what a "hack" was as it's not a term used by the BMW community), a search is not all the difficult. We should be gentle but firm with Grasshopper.

Jake Raby · 10-29-2008, 05:27 PM

I have two pressure sensors set up and ready to data log the pressure in the intake runner both with and without the snorkel to see exactly what does happen..

All tests that I have seen have been done at WOT on a dyno where peak power rules, but I believe that lower engine speeds and cruising the de-snorkel may be hurting performance. Thats because the intake was designed with the snorkel in place-

My chassis dyno is almost completed and my new 28 channel data logger is ready to be installed, between the lab and field testing of my test cars I'll gain and share lots of data soon on this subject.

Boxtaboy · 10-29-2008, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Jake Raby

I have two pressure sensors set up and ready to data log the pressure in the intake runner both with and without the snorkel to see exactly what does happen..

All tests that I have seen have been done at WOT on a dyno where peak power rules, but I believe that lower engine speeds and cruising the de-snorkel may be hurting performance. Thats because the intake was designed with the snorkel in place-

My chassis dyno is almost completed and my new 28 channel data logger is ready to be installed, between the lab and field testing of my test cars I'll gain and share lots of data soon on this subject.

I'd be very interested in seeing your results Jake. Thanks for the input.