OK I just installed a Schnell cold air orange/red hose and placed the plasic cap and black rubber cap over the muffler opening.

After installing the hose, the cool loooking red hose in the picture actuallly is a nasty Orange . . and makes the car look kind of crappy..

Question: since my goal is really only to plug up the intake muffler opening could I simply place the plug in and re-install the original intake hose ?

My only concern is that the plastic plug could come loose and go into the intake ??

Any ideas ?? Thanks

 

Has anyone just simply plugged the muffler outlet . . and if so did you use a cap like the one given in the Schnell kit ?

 

I haven't, but I saw a DIY somewhere on the net by a guy who did this. He used (as I recall) 2" PVC pipe with a plug on one end. He put the plugged end inside of the airbox in the muffler section and ran it up through the outlet into the little hose. He also placed a flange strategically on the pipe to hold it in place inside the airbox. (Hope this makes sense.) Maybe you can find it if you google.

 

just wrap the nasty orange hose with black electric tape.
some others have poured some type of silicone in the place where you put the plug and then reinstalled the original parts.

 

You get waht you pay for. Granted teh Fabspeed unit is not rocket science but teh schnell stuff is like "cheap alternatives" for Porsche. Im not sure but I seem to remember a DIY on teh net somewhere too. IMO not worth the hassle get the Fabspeed(the hose is red) and be done with it. : ) Just my .02

 

I did just that...I plugged the extra hole up with the "orange cap" method.

It is part you can order and it fits in there perfectly and will NOT get sucked in..impossible and you just put everything back in there.

I learned about this on Rennlist. If you do a search "orange cap" it is actually pretty common...