Every so often, car parts look like other things. Sometimes it’s intentional, like the center stack in a Mazda RX-8 featuring a compact disc motif, but sometimes it seems unintentional, like the water pump gasket on a 1997 Toyota Tacoma with the 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine that’s been the cause of many a parts store prank call. This seems to be one of the latter times, with the diesel particulate filter for a Porsche Macan diesel drawing a few eyebrows.
Initially pointed out by Autopian Discord user zmijman, the diesel particulate filter for the European-market 2017 Macan Diesel makes sense. After all, this thing used a three-liter turbodiesel V6, so the two downpipes would likely end up merging anyway for packaging reasons. So-called Y-pipes are fairly common on cars with two banks of cylinders, yet there’s something unique about this diesel particulate filter.
Maybe it’s just the positioning of this vital piece of emissions equipment in its second-hand ad, maybe it has something to do with differing pipe diameters, or the curvatures necessary to package this part in a compact crossover with a longitudinal architecture. Maybe the bubble wrap on the end of the part also has something to do with it, but it’s easy to read more into this diesel particulate filter than what’s actually there.
Funnily enough, Porsche may have originally planned on bringing the Macan diesel to America until, you know, that thing happened. As Car And Driver reported in 2013, “Porsche told Car and Driver that the 258-hp Macan S diesel will be imported to our shores sometime after the Macan S and Macan Turbo go on sale in early 2014. The Stuttgart-based automaker also confirmed that neither the gas nor diesel turbocharged four-cylinders being built for other markets will be offered in U.S. Macans.” Well, it turns out that ditching the diesel for the gasoline four-banger was a shrewd move, as the base Macan opened up Porsche to a whole new audience without the idiosyncrasies of diesels.
Speaking of opening up, does this Macan diesel DPF with this specific patination oriented in this particular way remind you of anything? No? Just me? Alrighty, then. That’s the way it goes, I guess. Maybe it would look different if the heat shields were all silvery and in near-factory shape. Then again, from this angle, perhaps not. Damn, I wish I could show this to Sigmund Freud.
[Hat-tip to zmijman!]
(Photo credits: Ovoko seller)
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This needs to be Porsche’s new hood ornament. But only mailed to you after your warranty expires.
Cough please?
well, they are both part of the exhaust LOL
so um, does it smell like ass? There’s sulfur in that shit, right?
pull up quick to retrieve it
Sigmund: “Sometimes a Diesel particulate filter is just a Diesel particulate filter.”
Stuck diesel filter gets huge bar to loosen up
This piece attaches to the Rx7’s Bose intestines, right?
I just learned this part costs 1,350 euros. Talk about getting f(letter)cked.
That was *exactly* what I thought
this diesel filter gonna make me act up
Step filter what are you doing?
How much will it cost to fix your Porsche? Allow me to show you an interpretive sculpture.
BOHICA
Throw on some new balance sneakers and itll be the boomer leaning over his C5 engine bay complaining how he has to cut the price to sell.before winter
hnng colonel, I’m trying to filter out diesel particulates, but I’m dummy thicc and the clap of my asscheeks is alerting the EPA.
Every single comment on this article is a COTD candidate.
Except yours. And this one.
Sadly.
Steampunk Porn.
Dieselpunk Fetish
“It should be leaning against the front bumper of a tri-5 Chevy at a car show” – A. Barth, in Discord (with a candlestick)
Is David on vacation? Can’t believe he would approve of such filth. /s
Turn your steering wheel and honk!
Are you really ASSking that question?
That’s not my Husband?
…and in the urologist’s office, the snap of a rubber glove is heard…
Thank you sir, may I have another.
Looks like someone bending over. Not sure how this is the best design for a car part. Maybe the article should cover that.
Hi, engine designer here.
Intake and exhaust cores on 4-valve cylinder heads almost always look like butts. But as the casting is the opposite shape you don’t get to see it.
I’ve been trying to get something that looks hilariously like a body part on to a production engine for decades. The first chance I got I chickened out and redesigned it at the last minute. Since then every time I’ve got something hilarious but also justifiable the project has been cancelled.
There was an intercooler pipe once that bifurcated and at the bifurcation had a TMAP sensor boss that made it look sort of like the Porsche bit but with a hole between the cheeks. It would have been very visible with the hood up.
A colleague designed a folded and welded bracket and sent me the drawing. Unfolded it looks like a wang. That got in to production. The bastard.
Don’t give up. Gloryhol- er, glory can still be yours.
link of the said wang please
There’s no picture of it on the internet, and anyway it only looks funny as a developed view on the drawing.
Imagine a crudely drawn wang, side view, with squared-off balls. Fold the balls up, then fold and weld the wang around the sides of the square balls to make a cube with two faces missing and the rounded but pointy tip sticking out. There’s a hole near the tip for the…
…wiring harness connector.
This is what chatgpt says it looks like 🙂
https://imgur.com/a/53VsDlD
if there is an artist here please chime in!
It’s very reassuring that AI is so far away from being able to do my job.
Toyota water pump entered the chat
don’t worry he totally calls it out in the article.
Germans, so anal.