long way around is to remove the bumper and i/c bend up the heat shields and remove the wire harness from the coils. only adds a couple of hrs

 

Dan, I do not envy you one bit. I don't even know where the injectors are on the car, lol, but at least you are trying the diy approach. Just wondering how the pros do it in 3-4hours, hopefully someone can chime in with some advice.

 

First time I did injectors on 996tt it took me and a friend about 3 hours per side. Second time I did them on a friends car in 2 hrs both sides.

I was gonna do the injectors in my 997 last sunday, I looked at inlet pipes and postponed the project. It def looks harder than 996tt. 996tt is actually quiet simple once the turbo inlet plenum is removed on the left side and air pump on the right side. On 997tt as Rix has posted the inlet pipes run right over the fuel rails, gladly my car silicone ones ( I believe his does too) with stock hard inlets the injector job would be even a bigger nightmare.

I wish I would have done injectors when I cut the stock inlet piping out of the car and before the new inlets were installed.

 

I was poking around under the "hood" of mine today, and I wouldn't even attempt the injector install with the stock turbo inlet pipes in the car. I would end up burning the car to the ground in effigy, haha. Going to install mine when the motor is out for the new clutch.

 

no need to remove the motor to do a clutch

 

I have the driver's side done now. It was a major pain in the *** due to the inlet pipes, and how tight the harness wiring is over the fuel rail. Sadly I'm out of town for a few days, and then I'm going to Texas Invitational this weekend (not racing, just watching) but hopefully I'll get the passenger side done next week.

I am itching to get my tuning finished with Mitch and go for some 60-130 numbers .

I have been writing up my notes from the experience... I will post them when I am done with everything. I've discovered some nifty things, it's not entirely horrible to work on. I think though it would have been more worthwhile to learn how to drop the engine entirely. Porsche deserves some ***** Canoe™ awards, they could have made it a LOT easier to do but decided instead to be very German.

 

It looks like a huge PITA. Can't wait till its done though!

Mitch

 

I'm removing the motor to do the clutch, turbo inlet pipes, injectors, pin the coolant pipes, and do general service work

 

I've got a lift going in the garage at my new house, but that won't be ready until ~March... Then I can pull the engine on the weekends just to clean it .

 

How much clearance do you think you need to remove the engine from the bottom? e.g. how high does the car have to be raised to have enough space to remove from the bottom?

-Jose

 

From what I have read, 36" is about the bare minimum you want to try. I think it depends on how the lift/jack you are using to lower the engine with sits though.

 

well that completely rules out the ezcarlift idea

-Jose

 

That's the right way of doing it. Anyone attempting this from the top is really asking for a lot of headache and a lot of time wasted.

 

Haha, so everyone becomes an expert and posts in my thread AFTER I start the injector swap

 

Are you done yet

-Mitch