Adding an emergency engine lid release cable to your 993

It is interesting that the 993 Carrera comes with an emergency Frunk cable release located behind the driver side wheel well liner. It doesn't come with one for the engine compartment. 

I have read horror stories about the rare occurrence when the engine lid release cable fails. If you have a Carrera with the regular moving spoiler, I understand, one can with, a little effort fish a  wire hook through the spoiler, and release the lid latch. To make releasing the latch easy an emergency release cable can be added.  

If your car has a fixed-wing, for example, the Aero factory wing or a Turbo wing fishing a wire through the wing's grill to release the latch is not going to happen and you are stuck. 

Here is how to easily add an emergency release cable to your 993 if not already present. 

• Used a length of solid core steel galvanized machine or picture hanging wire to create an emergency latch pull cable;
• Remove the left had rear turn/stop light fixture (on left-hand drive cars) 
• From inside the engine compartment, drill a small hole behind the driver side turn/stop light fixture and use a little touch-up paint to protect the raw metal where you drilled. 
• Pick a spot to drill the hole so a pull cable threaded through it leading to the latch is:
•  Unobstructed and; 
• In nearly as strait a line to the rear edge of the engine compartment leading to the latch as possible. This is so the release works smoothly when pulling the cable.

•  Fish the wire through the hole behind and slightly above where the stop/turn light fixture is mounted; 
• Thread the wire along the rear edge of the engine compartment and through the extra hole in the latch mechanism release lever and; 
• Tie a small machine nut on the end of the wire as a slip-stop versus directly attaching it to the lever. 
• In this way when using the regular latch release cable the added cable doesn't flex or bind it just slips through the lever's hole. But when one pulls on the added cable the nut acts as a cable stop.
• Coil up an extra length of wire behind the lamp housing and reinstall the turn/stop fixture. 

Takes all of ten minutes to do.

Andy