Hi, congrats on your new toy!
My intake is the earlier type which are aluminium - the later 964 intakes are plastic and are marginally better (and lighter). Mine is a standard intake but it's just been chrome powder coated so unfortunately gives me zero performance gains - just looks pretty!!
Decluttering the engine bay is never a bad thing and there are endless things you can do to achieve this. One of the cleanest engine bays is Robs car which is largely a stock engine too so shows what can be achieved. Take a look at his ongoing thread.
https://rennlist.com/forums/964-foru...refurb-61.html
He got a standard ally intake and cleaned it up which turned out looking nice:
https://rennlist.com/forums/964-foru...l#post12269389
Good luck with the car, there's a lot of information and help out there so don't worry about asking any questions!
