gota911

My orange cap came in yesterday, and I installed it last evening. Took about 6 -7 minutes. I agree with mdillian3690, I thought the cap would be a made of a firmer plastic. Took the 996 for a "run" last night to listen for the difference in sound. I only noticed a difference a "heavy throttle." Sounds nice!

Carrera Mike

It's actually red ... no chance of getting ingested by the engine

gota911

Carrera Mike - Why did you opt for the Fabspeed set up? What was the cost? To be honest, I didn't even know about the "orange cap" MOD until this thread was posted. Hence, when I saw your "permanent" Fabspeed set up, I was a little surprised. I still have "tons" to learn!

Carrera Mike

Gota, Actually the kit that I have in the picture above is for a 997. It was just given to me by my buddy VB997 who switched to the Evo setup. Since the 997 is fairly new, Fabspeed doesn't have the mold yet of the airbox, instead of the muffler block off elimination plate that's included with the 996 kit(picture attached below), they just give you this plastic cap for the airbox muffler.

It serves the purpose for the 996 although removing the muffler from the air box will give it more breathing room or more airflow. This is accomplished by that piece(muffler block off elimination plate) that actually comes with the 996 cold air kit which eliminates the muffler.

Anyways, my opinion is I don't think it's really a cold air kit since as we all know, our air boxes has multiple drain holes in the bottom which hot air can be sucked in. Additionaly, my $0.02, this red instake hose is just too expensive for $225 good thing it was given to me. With my limited resources, I would rather spend that money on a DE.

mdillian3690

Well I installed my Orange Cap on Friday afternoon. It took less than 10mins. The sound was pretty cool at over 4k rpms.

gota911, hey I am glad u felt the same way about the make of plastic for the orange cap. I think I am going to leave it in for a while and check the cap for warpness after sometime.

Re-animator

Niagara Caps and Plugs must be expecting a huge wave in future orders with all those free samples going out.

ubergeek

I just took the air filter apart to plug the hole instead of using the plastic cap to be safe. However, what I found was this muffler only has one hole which is connected to the intake. In other words, there is no direct air flow from the chamber to this pipe where we are trying to plug using this plastic cap.

See the attached picture I just took and you will see there is only one hole.

stiles_s

If I understand what you're saying, then this is by design. The helmholtz resonators are of a carefully calculated volume, and are "teed" off of the intake path. Air doesn't flow through them.

Midnight Rider

Ok so to settle this, based on what ubergeek found, there is no way a cap can be sucked through into the intake??????????

PS- the cap off a small gatorade bottle fits exactly when turned upside down and inserted!!! Maybe we should call this the GATORADE mod??

Midnight Rider

BUMP

Midnight Rider

BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ANyone??

Midnight Rider

bump bump bump bump

leedav

OK. What does "bump" mean?

Midnight Rider

Bumps it up to a current post on the forum. Also it means will anyone frickin answer the question???!!!! Thus again, So based on poster "ubergeek's" findings (when the airbox was taken apart) THE CAP WILL OR WILL NOT BE SUCKED INTO THE ENGINE IF IT COMES LOOSE??

StanSoph

No