Fitting the intake begins!

Ah yes sunny summer is over and TheHoff was beckoning from the garage on the weekend, so I ventured in... here's what I've been up to!

I solved a couple of my "what the heck connects to this?" issues I was having with the engine harness. The big round connector...

...needed this resistor plugging in - got it off a bloke breaking yet another 944S (they're going to disappear soon at this rate)

With that plugged in I dared to look under the gearbox at the rear and saw a great big oily puddle...

...this had more than a little perplexed as TheHoff hasn't been on the road except when I rolled it down the drive and onto the back of a car transporter when I moved a few months ago... the fix was easy (I hope), it turns out (hahahaha) that I mustn't have tightened the gearbox drainplug properly when I did an oil change - but that was 2 years ago... :-/

Anyway it's all tight now - only a spirited drive will tell if the gearbox has seen better days.

Then it was into the engine bay to mock up the intake and various hoses & vacuum pipes - why the heck is it such a tangle of tubes Mr. Porsche engineer?

I used the outgoing S intake as a pattern to follow and connected all the hoses in the same order and "flow" on the new spangly S2 intake:

But before I got to deep into that I did a mild porting to match the gasket to the intake (no work was required on the block side - thankfully!)

Then gave the inside a jolly good clean to remove all residue and trace of fillings:

On went the various hoses and idle thingy:

When I was finally happy with the test fitting I placed the new gasket in place and bolted down the intake with some nice new screws:

Then it was time to run some hose from the AOS through the intake to the throttle body position - I had to be a little creative to get things to route correctly:

[b]Next it's the turn of the throttle body![/b]

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