How do I remove an intercooler intake?

I'm having a self generated rear wiper scratch repaired along with "I got keyed" damage just aft of the lowest part of the driver's door. The shop is going to repair the damaged areas, spray color only on those areas, and shoot clear on the entire rear quarter panel. I assume they will need to remove the intercooler intake on the driver's side, and I want to be sure they do it correctly.

 

Just pulls out....
(Yea somthing actually easy from Porsche )
Evan

 

What about the black plastic tube from the back of the intake (that goes aft to the intercooler). Isn't the intake attached to that?

 

The painted part is NOT attached to that, no, just the painted part will pull out...
Evan

 

How do you know that??

 

Because this guy Stephen from this company IA made this really cool writeup with pictures and everything
I seem to remember you even delayed putting the kids to sleep to go out and take pics at like 9-10PM!!!!
You da best Stephen
Evan

 

LMAO...I get board like that. I have my motor apart right now. I guess I could do a right up on that. Nah, that would be a damn book!

 

So does the intake pull straight out, or up, or forward? Or just pull real hard in any direction?

Seems like when I pull on parts that are supposed to release manually, something breaks.

 

If your body shop doesn't know how you may want to consider taking it elsewhere. As for putting color over damage and clearing the rest of the panel, it is standard proceedure and likely the best repair possible.

 

Use a plastic "bondo speader" or something simialr to grab underneath the front end of the intake cover. They pull towards the front of the vehicle and that should pop the clips and come out in a jif. Hope that helps. It should be very easy but give it a good tug it has expanding clips inside.

 

Thanks for the help.

I'm taking my car to my cousin who used to paint high end cars but got out of that business to build custom Harleys. He won "Best of Show" with one of his bikes last year at Daytona. He's very talented. He only paints cars for close friends and family members. One of his customers has an original Porsche Spyder and my cousin did the complete restore and painting. Beautiful car! He just hasn't painted (fixed) a Turbo before.

 

Well I wouldn't be to afraid I think they are cheap but I could be wrong

 

Stephen, please do! And then make sure you throw a nice draft our way at a discount

Seriously though, I love to get my hands dirty but a 996 engine is something I'm afraid to touch./ i'd love to know what I'm doing. Any suggestions on reading material?