PA996

Hi everyone,
Been lurking for a while but need some advice.

I've got a 2001 996 C2. I ordered a fabspeed exhausted and fabspeed intake at the same time for the 996. Exhaust went on no problem, but my shop said they couldn't fit the Air Intake. Fabspeed didn't include instructions, and I'm not sure that they thought about taking out the stock airbox to install the fabspeed.

They are a Porsche shop that been in business 50+ years but in a sleepy old rich town and I don't think they have experience with performance upgrades.

I've never installed a CAI before, but it seems "do-able" from the Fabspeed online instructions. Did my "upkeep" shop just suck at performance equipment? Should I try and and install the CAI myself? I really think they just didn't realize they had to remove the stock airbox.

My CAI kit from fabspeed looks just like every other I've seen online. My 996 is a late model I'm told, because it has cupholders but otherwise seems like a normal 996?


Any advice would be super appreciated!


TL;DR: What are the chances my shop just had no instructions and gave up?

PA996

edit: fixed photo

TonyTwoBags

If the CAI kit has cupholders, it's probably a 964 unit. Call Fabspeed & they'll sort it out with directions.

JimmyB

A lot of people on here will tell you not to bother with the CAI. YMMV, as they say. But it should be a pretty straightforward job to fit so have at it.

Nice looking car. If you have factory cup holders in what from the headlights is a 996.1 that does make it a rather rare beast. Litronics FTW. Need to fix those orange side repeaters though. And probably engine mounts.



He's right though - call Fabspeed, they'll see you right.

PA996

Ok ok.. well deserved haha fixed

PA996

Definitely Litronics which surprised the **** out of me. Rennline solid mounts already on the way

Kalashnikov

Your shop was not sure whether or not to remove stock airbox to install a CAI?

Do they use turkey blasters and diffusion as a preferred way to change brake fluid by a chance?

PA996

I'm not trying to put my shop on blast, but either they are retarded or Fabspeed send me the wrong parts (I ordered directly from them.) When I brought it in they said "I've hear fabspeed makes good stuff." They have been in business for 50+ years but the shop is in one of the wealthiest / oldest parts of the Bay Area and i'm just not sure they wanted to do it. I was primarily there for a trans rebuild. Not a performance shop.

Kalashnikov

Trans rebuilt in Bay Area sounds serious.

dan_189

Do you have the "CAI" parts i.e. the hose and block off or the fabspeed competition intake?

Either way install it yourself, its not hard.

Literally: one bolt, one jubilee clip, MAF harness clip and 2 wire holding clips and the box comes out.

Unscrew the Philips heads holding the box together undo both jubilee clips holding the silicon hose to the box, remove the 3 torx screws holding the resonator box in place, screw in fabspeed "carbon fibre look" block off, put the box back together, install the red fabspeed silicon hose and re install the box.

Fabspeed you owe my 5% off my next order! Just kidding

KoB

Even in a "sleepy old rich town," over the course of 50 years SOMEBODY would've made some kind of performance upgrade to a Porsche.


Yes and yes. It is do-able, and jobs like these will help you learn about your car.

You should be hearing from John at Fabspeed, as he keeps an eye on this forum. He'll help you out.


Pretty good, I'd say.

tekkie

tell them there is a new thing called the internet, the instructions are on fabspeeds site

RngTrtl

I bet there are hitting the SAI assembly. I believe that it has to be relocated with a bracket that should have came in the kit assuming the 01 is like the 03.

JayG

Are you trying to impress us "one of the wealthiest / oldest parts of the Bay Area"

What in hell does that have to do with the quality of the shop?
Some of the best shops are in crappy industrial areas

ejdoherty911

Any shop that can't handle a cold air intake, on their own, without asking the customer what to do, is completely incompetent. I guess a monkey could open a hospital and stay in business 50 years, doesn't mean the monkey's any good. CAI install on your 996 could be done by a high school kid with the printed instructions. It's a very easy job. You can do it.