Air Intake Screens for Porsche

Air Intake Screens for Porsche

Many Suncoast PCAers are familiar with ZunSport, an English manufacturer of stainless steel intake screens for European cars. Only too many Porsche owners have discovered that their front radiator intakes have, by design, been left wide open, leaving expensive radiators prone to stone damage and debris fouling. ZunSport intake screens were the first after-market accessories I mounted on my 987 Boxster after I found that driving around in the rainy Pacific Northwest resulted in an accumulation of a nasty, wet, brown paste comprised of cigarette butts, rotting leaves, and other highway detritus along the lower edge of the radiators. The ZunSport screens were very effective and gave the Boxster a smooth, rounded face reminiscent of the appearance of older, aircooled Porsches.

So, after we decided in 2015 to add another Boxster to the family motor pool, I set out to locate some intake screens to protect our 981s radiators. I was very disappointed to find that neither Rennline, the maker of my Carrera's intake screens, nor ZunSport had anything on the market for the 981-series of Porsches. And then I burst into my happy dance.

On one of our recent rainy afternoons, while suffering from a serious bout of cabin fever, I found myself searching Boxster 981 accessories on, of all places, Amazon.com. I was very surprised to find, not only that Amazon now sells ZunSport intake screens as one of their North American distributors, but that ZunSport have finally brought their screens for the 981 series of cars to market. I immediately placed an order for the black, powder-coated front intake screens for our Boxster. Imagine my surprise when FedEx delivered my package within 48 hours of my submit order mouse-click. That's from England!-- 48 hours!

Installation, per ZunSport's excellent photo-illustrated instructions, took less than 15 minutes. The screens look as if they had been designed for the car by the geniuses in Zuffenhausen and blend perfectly into the front face of the Boxster. I was so pleased with the quality and fit of these intake screens that I ordered their set of screens for the rear side air intakes for the Boxster, placing this order directly with ZunSport on their website www.zunsport.com. Same story: The order arrived two days later, and fit, finish, and ease of installation were excellent.

I am especially impressed with these products because not only are they easily and quickly installed without drilling or other bodywork modifications, but they can also easily be removed and reinstalled for easy clean-out of material that may have passed through the screens into the radiator area.

By Hans -Joachim Krenz