ROFL welcome to shift.
you figured out that the piece unbolts from the upper airbox lid didnt you.:ponder
Food for thought. A 2.0L NA motor with $2000 worth of mods, wont make the power a chipped 1.8T will. Performance mods on a 2.0 are a waste of money.
If you want a car to fit into the VW clicks, keep the hood closed & leave the powertrain stock. Put money into nice suspension, IE coil overs (not Nuespeed race sprieengz on stock struts that will blow the valves in a week), get some nice wheels, 2 piece maybe, BBS-shits or something. Head down the “looks” road, people wont bag on you for that.
A 2.Slow Liter is like buying a first class ticket to a AAA meeting. Once you accept you have a problem, you can move on and be accepted by the group.