Dumb question...what's a smuggler's box
 

All,

This is a dumb question, but I am new to the 911 world. What's a smuggler's box? Where is it located?

thanks,
anthony

It's in the trunk. Pul up the carpeting and you'll see a trap door behind the fuel tank.

It was used to hold A/C components over the years. It was given the name "smugglers box" after many a gold chain totin' furry chested dude tried to break on to the scene of Miami Vice with 15 Kilos of Cocaine hidden in the compartment. :)

If you lift up the carpet in the front trunk, you will notice a hatch near the firewall. That is the smugglers box. If your car has A/C, there are usually A/C components in the smugglers box (either the receiver or the dryer, I think).

How do we know you aren't a cop just trying to find our stash?:D

Steve, the receiver/dryer is a canister located in the left front fender of A/C equipped 911s. The evaporator unit is in the smuggler's box, with a condenser on the front undercarriage and another on the decklid, with the compressor on the right side of the engine bay. Hoses going everywhere :(

HAHAHA!!!

Does C2/C4 have this box?

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anthony

All those answers are wrong. The smuggler's box is for storing porn.

or for filming small rodent porn

you have a little tiny bed in yours too???

I found dogfood when replacing floorpan in front. Rodent entered through the fuel filler door, and went down inbetween the fender and the double wall down in there.

sjd

i also found a nice little nest minus the mice in the 70E im restoring

I found dog food in mine too!

This all makes me want to dig into this over the weekend to see if there is anything in there responsible for my lousy A/C performance.

todd
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86 Cpe

I was just cutting away, and all of a sudden I'm thinking "I smell dog food...

peel a bit of metal away....CRAP!!!!...there had to be 4 cups in there....I kid you not...it was a PILE of dog food.

sjd

I figured I was wrong. I didn't actually know which component of the A/C was in the smugglers box, so I just started listing off components I knew. Thanks for the clarification.

...and look, right here, you put your weeeeeeed in it.

Out of interest, Right Hand Drive cars don't have a smugglers box FWIW

Why would they make a right hand drive 911? That's just wrong. Where is the fuel fill? On the wrong side, I bet.

That's like a left-handed Strat. Just wrong.

Wrong? It messes with my mind when I see all your cars over there in Left Hand Drive! I have to use photoshop and "flip" the image just so it makes sense to me :rolleyes: :D

"Why would they make a right hand drive 911? That's just wrong. Where is the fuel fill? On the wrong side, I bet.

That's like a left-handed Strat. Just wrong."

Fuel fill is on the passenger side. Means the passenger breathes the majority of the fumes when the fuel filler leaks ;)

Engine lid pull is also on that side. Don't get me started!