K-Man and others who have DeSnorked.


I know that K-Man did an excellent job with his detailed de-snork instructions. I attempted this yeaterday and quickly gave up. On the restrictor plate I could clearly see 4 tabs and pins. I carefully pried up the tabs (I may have even broken one or two in teh process). What happended is that the restrictor plate became loose from the pions but the outer air intake 'grill' (exterior vertical body color pieces) remained firmly attached. Am I removing the wrong set of pins? I did not see any other pins (did I miss them somehow?) and the exterior grill doesn's move at all. rather than do any further damage, I gave up until one of you can give educate me a little more.


Thanks,


Charles

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Charles,


There are only 3 tabs and pins holding the exterior grill. The four latch pins visible without touching the grill are to hold the restrictor baffle/plate. You release those after getting the grill off.


To get at the 3 tabs holding the grill, you need to pull the edge of the grill away from the edge of the steel body panel. I actually inserted two fingers into the gap. The plastic grill deflected so much that I swore I'd break the grill or craze the paint before I got at the tab.


I will try to take a pict tonight and post if someone doesn't beat me to it.


Vic

Thanks Vic,


Thanks for the quick reply! I too found it hard to move the plastic grill out from the body even a small amount, so decided not to pullany harder. I guess I gave up too soon. Did you finda noticableperformance increase with the de-snork? I am getting the 9ff, kit-2, modification within a couple of weeks. The better breathing with a de-snork seemed to be a good thing to do too. Thanks for any pictures you may have to clairify exactly how to best remove those pins.


Cheers,


Charles

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Charles,


Have you read through BOTH articles in the Articles section on how to de-snork, there are a lot of pictures there including some annotated ones that should make the pins pretty clear. Is there anyone in your area who has done this mod that you can have do it for you? or drive it by here and I can help!

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Ken,


Have you had any track vibrations coming from the air intake area? I'm getting a vibration (I think its the snorkel itself vibrating) that hits at about 95 MPH and gets a bit louder as you hit triple digits.


Paul

Thanks for the note Ken. In your picture 3 (from top), in De-Snork II, you show your fingers under the yellow plastic vent piece. My (silver) one is VERY tight (that's why I attacked the visible tabs on the restrictor (which were easy to move, but only loosened the restrictor plate itself).It seemsyou were able to pull out your yellow outer vent trim enough to see, and work on the pins. Mine is very tight and I thought I would break something pulling on it any harder. It moved out only about 1/8 inch with ~ 40-50 lbs of force, so I stopped. Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.A drive to KC from St. Louiscould possiblywork outbut I will be out of the country almost all of August. I teach at Washington University and, after classes are comfortably under way, I might be able to get a away over a weekend. That will be presumably after I get the 9ff mod installed. I hope tohave this done by ReidVann during my trip to Zurichand try it out before I leave for Australia on the 19th of August. The parts aren't in yet and may not be in in time for this since 9ff is changing locations in Germany and shipping has been delayed. Hopefully the kit will get here before I go.


Thanks again,


Charles

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Devo,


Nope no vibrations, none.


Charles,


Why don't you hold off and wait until your 9ff install is done then bring the car over and we can de-snork it here and put it on the dyno at Imagine Auto!

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Ken,





That sounds fine - It will be interesting to see independently how much the 9ff kit puts on the pavement. Hope theparts comes in soon. I'''ll check with Emeka to see how things are getting sorted out in Dortmund. By the way, that kit uses one cat (instead of the stock two) anda singleO2 sensor. It remains to be seen how this is integratebby the ECU for mixture control though 9ff has access to all the original Porsche firmware and has reworked the code in revised ECU firmware in a proprietary fashion (which is why 9ff wants the ECU sent in for reprogramming instread of letting the installer flash the unit).


Charles





Cheers,


Charles

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No trouble here with the de-snorkel. Took me about 10 min (I did not use any wire mesh) and did not break or scratch anything. Happy to do yours if you are near Montreal!

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'06 Cayman S -JIC Cross, Quaife, CCW C14 wheels,MPSC's, Milltek cat back, GT3 seats Schroth harnesses, TC design bar, Pagid yellows, GT3 cup brake ducts,de-snorked, vanilla air freshener

Hopefully, when you get the 9ff kit installed the de-snork should be a distant memory.

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Charles,

Here are the picts of what you need to do to the grill to gain access to the clips.

Silversled,


There is actually one at the very bottom as well which can be seen in my Articles, at first I thought it was just a pin, but then realized I had pulled the whole pin piece out with my intake grate.

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