Porsche blocked it off so no water or debris gets inside the engine intake, so like you said, it’s only a couple of horsepower and it’s not worth removing and recking your very expensive engine.
the only time water will get sucked in the engine is if you drive the car in that high of water also if you’re driving in really rainy conditions you may have a chance to get water sucked in so as long as you avoid those two things alt together you should be fine I live in Texas where it’s very dry all the time and I have a 986 boxer that I do snorkeled no problem at all also I don’t drive it when it’s very rainy and crappy outside because one it’s mid engine and two soft top both do not like the rain made engine cars don’t handle well in the rain and it’s a soft top so when it’s really rainy I don’t drive the car for those two reasons I don’t really notice the horsepower gain on my car with that Dee snorkeled but I did notice a noise increase which is really what I did it for anyway don’t do it for horsepower and think you’re going to get more horsepower out of it because that’s not gonna work do it for the noise and to make the vent on the 987 functional that’s what I would do it for if I had a 987 because what’s the point of buying a car with two vents on either side being a male engine car and only one being functional it makes no sense it’s like a fake vent that leads nowhere why even put it on the car if it’s only for aesthetics so me I would just do it to make it functional because function over form has always been my philosophy and will continue to be
Maybe, because I grew up in the 60s and 70s when muscle cars were new and and every one wanted ally wheels, but I've never understood why anyone would spend money on black wheels? You can't see them, they might as well be standard black steel wheels. So for me, leave the vent's silver, at least you can see them and they are really nice.
Louder due to a hole in the bodywork. The vent on that side expels hot air from the engine bay which is why it appears blocked so forcing air in is counter productive. It’s not connected to your intake so does nothing. If excess water gets in you could get belt slippage. You don’t know better than Porsche.
100% wrong. It is connected to the intake. The air extractor is on the other side and there is no protection against water infiltration. There is just a fan. I have done that a long time ago on mine, just remove that plate, it's almost useless and you gain more reactivity and a better sound. You may try to help with your comment but when you talk about Porsche first own a Porsche...
@@HaxPleKxYglaSS Correct. On my 986, because of the shape of the snorkel tube, the end of it where air enters is smaller than the end that attaches to the intake. Therefore, when you desnorkel, you are actually allowing more air into the intake, it just might not be a pure cold air intake anymore, since the air is coming directly from the ambient air inside the engine compartment. However, I think that's a minimal effect due to the shape of the structure and placement of the engine, and the fact that it is still getting air through the body vent too.
Word of warning be careful when cleaning or getting car clean at these car washes , I had a Muppet spray high pressure water in my side vent on the other side , the water went in and all over the drive belt pulleys , the belts squeaked when I drove off from car wash , 2 miles down road drive belt came off lost all power steering and alternator , limped car home , took the back panel off behind seat to look at belt only to fined belt shredded caught and broken the pulley tensioner and tensioner plate that is connected to the engine !! The engine had to be taken out I kid you not !! I was so angry ... The vents good in silver or black , but as you have the gloss black wheels will look good in black same as black edition model , very easy mod , I looked at changing my vents to spyder ones but silly money .. pin striping is a good touch to add to be rim of the wheels white or silver.. costs peanuts if you dont like can peal off 4 or 5mm .. springs on it’s way I’ve got a new exhaust mod I’m working on with a spare exhaust hopefully it won’t be too loud , keep up the good videos great stuff ..:-)
If you want a great exhaust MOD, go for the Carnewal GT exhaust. I just had mine done in Belgium and it sounds absolutely awesome!! you can also send in your old exhaust and Gert will send you a modified exhaust or have it done in Belgium. Takes an hour of work and is very affordable (Euro 495.00). Well worth the money!! Check out various clips on You Tube...
Hello, On the 987 only the driver side is connected to the engine air intake. Whereas, on the 981 both sides feed air directly into the engine for increased air flow and performance. The 981 also has two engine air filters, one on each side, where the 987 only has one. The reason for dual side vents on the 987 is purely aesthetics, plus the "active" air intake is associated with the drivers side (RHD versus LHD). Therefore, desnorkeling does not impact bhp.
The right side is an engine bay vent and will exhaust with a fan when the engie bay rises above a certain temp. Somehting you'd notice on a track day in CA with temps over 37C, so not something that you encounter much in the UK.
Porsche engineers in their wisdom designed this car after conducting research, you are more likely to lose power than gain or max you gain more engine noise escaping from the new vent.
There are other things engineers have to consider other than HP when they design a vehicle. This was probably added due to noise legislation rather than HP reasons.
Keep an eye on your long term mpg use. I’ve read the ecu may need a remap as the fuel/air ratio is now increased. It may run rich??? I’m keen to know why Porsche decided to block it off!? 🤔
This is one of the things I did to my 986. Also, those vents were originally black on my car (also a black car), but I painted them silver (only the actual vent bits though, not the entire casing). Now that my car has a nice matte/satin black paint job, I've painted them red, along with a few other bits, and it looks the bee's knees, as you guys might say. haha Oh, and also, the desnorkel did make a noticeable change in the sound with the throttle open. It got even better when I did the free mod to the exhaust too. That one changes the sound, even at idle.
No it will run hotter. That is a hot air exit vent, forcing air in is counter productive, that’s why it appears to be blanked off yet has a tube behind the screen. The increase in noise is due to a hole in the bodywork, nothing more. There is no increase in power, just a placebo effect caused by the increased noise.
@@danielepilotto1909 the 987 was available as a 2.7. Then the S variant like mine was a 3.2. When they facelifted it to the 987.2 the engine was changed to a 3.4
It's like that for a reason,I'm sure Porsche know what they are doing,just because it makes no sense to you or anyone else who thinks they know better does not mean they don't know what they are doing,I'm pretty sure they wouldn't do it that way of there wasn't a point to it,just common sense of realy
It's a popular mod I fancied trying. I'm sure porsche know exactly what their doing, but as so many Boxster owners had done this mod, I thought why not try it 👍
Apparently the reason for the plate is simply bc it's cosmetic. It's not dual intake like the 981. But Porsche didn't want to design a car with only one side intake which would look odd so Porsche kept the other side intake and just blocked it off as it served no functionality for performance or sound. But it could pose a risk to the engine for not having it blocked off as its an extra opening that otherwise would have been blocked by another air filter. So yes those pointing out that removing the panel is a risk factor are correct. But not that much of a risk as there simply is no intake for the engine on that side. But those making claims of water and the like are all forgetting that tens of thousands of dual intake boxtsers exist on the road that have no such panel blocking either side intakes and they have zero issues or wild rumors of fire from objects getting sucked in. Any added sound by removing it could be argued as removing any panel around the engine would increase any sound. But splitting hairs at best and mostly a placebo.
There's a free mod you can do to the factory standard exhaust too. Easy to find videos showing it. Sometimes called the "Crios" mod, after the first guy who did it (apparently). I'm sure the 987's exhaust is similar to the 986, so you should be able to do this to it. th-cam.com/video/PO9l-X4eUOk/w-d-xo.html
Call me boring, but if the genii who designed this, covered it, it was for a good reason. So unless your more intelligent than them I wouldn’t piss around with it 😃
ya know what i have learned in my life? IF these GERMAN engineers didn't want it like that? they wouldn't of built it like that. From what i understand now only one side sucks air the other is a blank and cosmetic?
I am pretty sure the german engineers wanted to develop an engine which would not have the IMS problem. And yet they did… So do with your car what you like to do with it as long as other people’s safety, and probably as well your own, doesn’t get involved.
Porsche blocked it off so no water or debris gets inside the engine intake, so like you said, it’s only a couple of horsepower and it’s not worth removing and recking your very expensive engine.
Also the snorkel separate hot air with cold, really it's. A form of cold air induction With Hydrolocking protection
Not to mention tests showed very little air actually enters the grill unless there is a scoop like the clio v6.
Pretty sure this has been disproven
the only time water will get sucked in the engine is if you drive the car in that high of water also if you’re driving in really rainy conditions you may have a chance to get water sucked in so as long as you avoid those two things alt together you should be fine I live in Texas where it’s very dry all the time and I have a 986 boxer that I do snorkeled no problem at all also I don’t drive it when it’s very rainy and crappy outside because one it’s mid engine and two soft top both do not like the rain made engine cars don’t handle well in the rain and it’s a soft top so when it’s really rainy I don’t drive the car for those two reasons I don’t really notice the horsepower gain on my car with that Dee snorkeled but I did notice a noise increase which is really what I did it for anyway don’t do it for horsepower and think you’re going to get more horsepower out of it because that’s not gonna work do it for the noise and to make the vent on the 987 functional that’s what I would do it for if I had a 987 because what’s the point of buying a car with two vents on either side being a male engine car and only one being functional it makes no sense it’s like a fake vent that leads nowhere why even put it on the car if it’s only for aesthetics so me I would just do it to make it functional because function over form has always been my philosophy and will continue to be
No obviously this guy is smarter than Porsches engineers /s
It doesn't block the intake off. It is a baffle plate to reduce air swirl on the induction snorkel. Air travels round it.
Interesting! 🤔
As long as you don't drive in the rain. AFAIK this structure keeps rainwater out
Maybe, because I grew up in the 60s and 70s when muscle cars were new and and every one wanted ally wheels, but I've never understood why anyone would spend money on black wheels? You can't see them, they might as well be standard black steel wheels. So for me, leave the vent's silver, at least you can see them and they are really nice.
they look better. sleeker. Silver is on every stock car on earth almost and is so boring
I like it silver it pops
Louder due to a hole in the bodywork. The vent on that side expels hot air from the engine bay which is why it appears blocked so forcing air in is counter productive. It’s not connected to your intake so does nothing. If excess water gets in you could get belt slippage.
You don’t know better than Porsche.
It's a popular mod done by many boxster and Cayman owners...
Ben Rayne circular logic at best. Present a more compelling argument
100% wrong. It is connected to the intake. The air extractor is on the other side and there is no protection against water infiltration. There is just a fan. I have done that a long time ago on mine, just remove that plate, it's almost useless and you gain more reactivity and a better sound.
You may try to help with your comment but when you talk about Porsche first own a Porsche...
@@HaxPleKxYglaSS Correct. On my 986, because of the shape of the snorkel tube, the end of it where air enters is smaller than the end that attaches to the intake. Therefore, when you desnorkel, you are actually allowing more air into the intake, it just might not be a pure cold air intake anymore, since the air is coming directly from the ambient air inside the engine compartment. However, I think that's a minimal effect due to the shape of the structure and placement of the engine, and the fact that it is still getting air through the body vent too.
Hi think you will find the black blanking plate was there to stop water ingress to the engine induction
Word of warning be careful when cleaning or getting car clean at these car washes , I had a Muppet spray high pressure water in my side vent on the other side , the water went in and all over the drive belt pulleys , the belts squeaked when I drove off from car wash , 2 miles down road drive belt came off lost all power steering and alternator , limped car home , took the back panel off behind seat to look at belt only to fined belt shredded caught and broken the pulley tensioner and tensioner plate that is connected to the engine !! The engine had to be taken out I kid you not !! I was so angry ...
The vents good in silver or black , but as you have the gloss black wheels will look good in black same as black edition model , very easy mod , I looked at changing my vents to spyder ones but silly money .. pin striping is a good touch to add to be rim of the wheels white or silver.. costs peanuts if you dont like can peal off 4 or 5mm .. springs on it’s way I’ve got a new exhaust mod I’m working on with a spare exhaust hopefully it won’t be too loud , keep up the good videos great stuff ..:-)
Be sure to let me how your exhaust mod goes
If you want a great exhaust MOD, go for the Carnewal GT exhaust. I just had mine done in Belgium and it sounds absolutely awesome!! you can also send in your old exhaust and Gert will send you a modified exhaust or have it done in Belgium. Takes an hour of work and is very affordable (Euro 495.00). Well worth the money!! Check out various clips on You Tube...
Great video, car looks great Ben!!
Cheers bud
Awesome 987 Ben! I had one for a week before I had an ims fail was devastating, one day I’ll get one again 👍
Sorry to hear. Was it a 986 or a 987?
John White 987 05
Hello, On the 987 only the driver side is connected to the engine air intake. Whereas, on the 981 both sides feed air directly into the engine for increased air flow and performance. The 981 also has two engine air filters, one on each side, where the 987 only has one. The reason for dual side vents on the 987 is purely aesthetics, plus the "active" air intake is associated with the drivers side (RHD versus LHD). Therefore, desnorkeling does not impact bhp.
The right side is an engine bay vent and will exhaust with a fan when the engie bay rises above a certain temp. Somehting you'd notice on a track day in CA with temps over 37C, so not something that you encounter much in the UK.
Porsche engineers in their wisdom designed this car after conducting research, you are more likely to lose power than gain or max you gain more engine noise escaping from the new vent.
Don't forget to put mesh to protect the air intake against burning cigarettes and other shit, very easy with some fly screen mesh
There are other things engineers have to consider other than HP when they design a vehicle. This was probably added due to noise legislation rather than HP reasons.
The snorkel is a cold air induction pipe period.
Keep an eye on your long term mpg use. I’ve read the ecu may need a remap as the fuel/air ratio is now increased. It may run rich???
I’m keen to know why Porsche decided to block it off!? 🤔
more air equals lean mixture
def black. my 2004 boxster s has a screen behind the drivers side vent, and on the passenger side there's an electric fan.
This is one of the things I did to my 986. Also, those vents were originally black on my car (also a black car), but I painted them silver (only the actual vent bits though, not the entire casing). Now that my car has a nice matte/satin black paint job, I've painted them red, along with a few other bits, and it looks the bee's knees, as you guys might say. haha Oh, and also, the desnorkel did make a noticeable change in the sound with the throttle open. It got even better when I did the free mod to the exhaust too. That one changes the sound, even at idle.
hows your car running now a year later , as im thinking of doing it
@@danmarkitchensinteriors5498 The car is running great. never misses a beat!
Does your car engine run cooler now?
Havent driven it since this video so cant be sure
No it will run hotter. That is a hot air exit vent, forcing air in is counter productive, that’s why it appears to be blanked off yet has a tube behind the screen. The increase in noise is due to a hole in the bodywork, nothing more. There is no increase in power, just a placebo effect caused by the increased noise.
@@eddherring4972 - The tube behind that vent leads to the engine air filter. It is the air intake into the engine. It is not a "hot air exit vent."
what are the main difference between a 986 and a 987?
Engine, side intakes, front bumper, rear bumper, headlights, taillights, interior
@@be1441 but they have both the 2.7 liter engine, Everything else is only esthetic?
@@danielepilotto1909 the 987 was available as a 2.7. Then the S variant like mine was a 3.2. When they facelifted it to the 987.2 the engine was changed to a 3.4
I have an 986 Boxster S which porsche released with the 3.2 later after the 2.7 its been a great car I may have to try this mod on mine
Carl's Mod's & Class don’t bother, see my comment in the main comments.
What year is your boxter?
2005
It's like that for a reason,I'm sure Porsche know what they are doing,just because it makes no sense to you or anyone else who thinks they know better does not mean they don't know what they are doing,I'm pretty sure they wouldn't do it that way of there wasn't a point to it,just common sense of realy
It's a popular mod I fancied trying. I'm sure porsche know exactly what their doing, but as so many Boxster owners had done this mod, I thought why not try it 👍
Apparently the reason for the plate is simply bc it's cosmetic. It's not dual intake like the 981. But Porsche didn't want to design a car with only one side intake which would look odd so Porsche kept the other side intake and just blocked it off as it served no functionality for performance or sound. But it could pose a risk to the engine for not having it blocked off as its an extra opening that otherwise would have been blocked by another air filter. So yes those pointing out that removing the panel is a risk factor are correct. But not that much of a risk as there simply is no intake for the engine on that side. But those making claims of water and the like are all forgetting that tens of thousands of dual intake boxtsers exist on the road that have no such panel blocking either side intakes and they have zero issues or wild rumors of fire from objects getting sucked in.
Any added sound by removing it could be argued as removing any panel around the engine would increase any sound. But splitting hairs at best and mostly a placebo.
Exhaust next! Definitely be louder then XD
You will know why the plate is there next time you wash your car, smarty pant!
Was fine had no issues by removing it 👍
Use Meguirs liquid wax on that car will make it shine like mad 🧐
Need to give it a polish after I wrapped it in Christmas lights 😅
There's a free mod you can do to the factory standard exhaust too. Easy to find videos showing it. Sometimes called the "Crios" mod, after the first guy who did it (apparently). I'm sure the 987's exhaust is similar to the 986, so you should be able to do this to it.
th-cam.com/video/PO9l-X4eUOk/w-d-xo.html
Wonder why Porsche wouldn’t just have both vents functional in the 1st place 🤷🏼♂️
Beats me 🤷🏼♂️
🤣🤣 that is a sign that the birds called your car shit
We do not need those type comments on this, it adds nothing and you add nothing to the discussion. Think about it next time.
Rumors go, that one day, someone thrown out a cigarette bud that got sucked in by the vent...and set a car on fire. Not sure if that is true.
Almost certainly not.
@@Legaumaisdsts Nice picture of a burned up Boxster, with no context. What are you attempting to say?
Call me boring, but if the genii who designed this, covered it, it was for a good reason. So unless your more intelligent than them I wouldn’t piss around with it 😃
I put it back. Dont worry haha
ya know what i have learned in my life? IF these GERMAN engineers didn't want it like that? they wouldn't of built it like that. From what i understand now only one side sucks air the other is a blank and cosmetic?
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I am pretty sure the german engineers wanted to develop an engine which would not have the IMS problem. And yet they did… So do with your car what you like to do with it as long as other people’s safety, and probably as well your own, doesn’t get involved.