Tried for 3 hours to get a K & N air filter to fit on to the oval shaped port and was unsuccesful. Unlike the Porsche OEM filter which has a rigid pre shapped oval, the K & N must be hand formed. Also, you can only use on hand effectively to try the install. K & N's instructi9on shows the install w/ the air box out of the car. That's not an option. Any suggestions. K & N is unresponsive.

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I'm going to copy this question to our Boxster Technical Forums and then send you the link so that you can post some pictures there and we can try to help you with the installation there.

- Wayne

As an owner of 6 Porsches over 35+ years who does 99% of my own maintenance, let me assure you that if you try installing K&N's filter in a Cayman ('09 in my case) you will be hating life.
K&N took an already awkward Porsche design and made it 100 times harder to install by using a rigid plastic connection with no bevel. All my Porsches have run K&N but this one won't. SMH.