I am looking to remove the intercooler hose manifold. From what I gather, you remover the airbox, a 13mm bolt, and the hose clamp and it is free. Is there any sensors I am missing.



I plan to bead-blast it this weekend and color anodize it to match my Samco hoses. The car is red, so I think more red in the engine compartment would be overkill. Y'all will probably laugh, but I am thinking of going with speed yellow "f" hose, intercooler hoses and manifold.....any thoughts on the color....and yes, A356 castings are a pain to anodize properly, especially in the lighter colors like speed yellow.

 

IF you have PCCB's that would be hot!

 

Your correct about anodizing the casting. I found this on the web and it may help you to get rid of the silicon. If it works, let us know, I may want to color my tube...

"Alloy 380 is a high-silicon alloy (about 8 percent). The solubility of silicon in aluminum is about 1.5 percent. When the casting cools, silicon precipitates out and forms these gray mottled areas. Silicon does not anodize, so the adhesion around these areas is likely to be poor. To minimize this problem, the surface finisher should pretreat the casting in a nitric acid/ammonium bifluoride solution under well-ventilated conditions. Doing so will effectively dissolve much of the surface silicon and thereby enrich the surface with anodizable aluminum."

 

I was thinking about that, going yellow with all the hoses & brakes as a theme. But before I would go PCCB, i would paint my calipers yellow and put factory decals back on. I saw a 997 at the $stealership the other day when my clutch was "not" getting installed (lol...those jokers). The tech was telling me the owner was going back to metal rotors, as the replacement cost was killing him.

 

get black samco hoses - matches the pipe and the roof and will give it a nice stock look

if you really want color I would stick with the red.

 

Replacement Cost? A tech at Santa Barbara Porsche in Calif said that the rotors don't wear, just the pads. I wonder how much to pads are??? He also said that they repaired a 997TT with PCCB's that had the rear axle bashed and by another car and the insurance company was throwing a fit. It was costing 6K for the parts, one of which was a brake rotor.

 

yummy.....I'm getting an urge for a big mac. post pics.

 

To f' ing funny. I'll be sure to stop by the drive-in at Micky D's and take a photo for you!!!! Hahahahaaa...funny