Living with a Porsche 944

After sorting the S2 intake bits it was time to find and fit a new air filter. The original air filter position on the S is underneath the front badge panel - a rather awkward place when it comes to replacement. I'd therefore elected to fit mine behind the NS headlight and after some careful measuring found an ideal candidate in a foam filter from RAMAIR. Positioned where it is should ensure it gets some cold air from the large hole in the side panel. I plan to make a heat shield of some sort to enclose it too.

After a good cuppa it was time to do the oil change and air filter replacement. Things didn't go quite as smoothly as I'd hoped to begin with as the oil filter is a rather difficult thing to remove - if you don't have the correct tools. After discovering the the oil drain plug is a 15mm nut, followed by a trip into Machine Mart to purchase one as my socket set was of course missing this vital tool. I then discovered much to my chagrin that the oil filter removal tool that I planned to use, the kind with the chain, was too cumbersome to use in such a compact space and it wouldn't budge the oil filter at all. The only solution was a clever multi-sizing contraption from Halfords that clamps on the end of the filter much like a socket - as seen below attached to the end of the extension - a clever bit of kit: Once removed, the rest of the oil change went without incident or challenge. I decided to remove the airbox so as to clean the connections on the temperature sens...