There's no Technical Bulletin regarding cutting a chunk out of the bell housing to remove the torque tube....just like there is no Technical Bulletin telling people to cut an access hole in the fender to change the clutch master, or to cut holes in the lower bell housing cover to gain access to the clutch "H" stops.
I asked my good friends at my local Porsche Classic Department if Porsche would mind if they cut these holes/bell housing to make things easier....they laughed and said that this would be the quickest termination ever.

My shop policy is that if we even touch a torque tube with a cut bell housing, it gets replaced.
There's no remote possibility that I want anyone, 20 years from now saying: "Look what these hacks did!"

It actually goes further than this....if I get a car in for a PPP inspection, which has a cut bell housing or cut hole to access the master cylinder, it will fail the PPP instantly.....go find another car!
My logic: "If the people that worked on this car were that lazy and cut these corners, what else is "hacked?"

And, as a final "clue", between this thread and your other thread, there's four pros telling you to not cut the bell housing....

Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it!

 

haha too late my friend.

it doesn’t actually affect the rigidity at all. It’s crazy how it didn’t come out of the factory like that.

mark

 

Sadly, another victim drinks the Internet Koolaide, reducing yet another 928 to the poverty level, to save a few hours of work.

Hacksaw, Sawsall, or Axe?

 

hammer... I wouldn’t mess about with a saw.

What the hell is koolaide? We don’t have that in Europe, where the cars are more powerful and the speed limits, optional. ✌️

 

Just good natured teasing...Sorry, didn't realize that you would not understand this reference.

Google "Kool-Aid".
Packaged sugar powder when mixed with water makes a not very good drink....it's cheap and was popular in the 1970's.

Then Google "Drink the Kool-Aid Reference".
A nut case named Jim Jones had a church in South America and convinced over 200 of his followers to drink a Kool-Aid drink mixed with poison. (The people knew it was poison.)

This reference is used, still today (mostly by an older generation alive at that time), if someone is influenced to do something by others.

 

ahhh yeah I read about that guy, I’m strictly on the tide pods these days though 😂