allthatisman
May 8th, 2005, 12:15 AM
This is sort of long:
OK, so I install my greddy upper and lower intercooler pipes as well as the ebay intake that I bought. I already had the greddy type S BOV on. I install the upper pipe as well as the intake and take it for a ride. I didnt really notice any seat of the pants differance, but the car drove fine. Go back home and start on the lower pipe. With that installed, I take it out for another spin. Immediatly i notice that it pulls harder, but as i get to the end of the street and open it up more I hear all this air like a hose blew and the car ceases to accelerate smoothly, or really accelerate at all. I figure that i just blew off a pipe like Lee did at the dyno day, but i get back and everything is still on and tight. The car idles perfectly, but has trouble boosting "i assume". I come home from work today, take off the lower and replace it with the stocker again, since that it was after that part that it had problems. I take it out and it pulls like a stock car again... for a few pulls. I notice that the turbo creeped past 15 psi this time and its starts idling badly and running genuinely poor. I take it home put it back to stock, with the exception of the intake and it still idles like shit. We leave it running and it just naturally smoothes out. I drive it and it still stumbles, but the idle is smooth again. We put back my intake(I had tom's on to test if it was my maf and it wasnt), start it back up and its running bad again. The only difference between our intakes is that he jb welded the filter adapter to the MAF, so i decided to put some RTV on mine to see if it was a vacuum leak. ANY THOUGHTS????
OK, so I install my greddy upper and lower intercooler pipes as well as the ebay intake that I bought. I already had the greddy type S BOV on. I install the upper pipe as well as the intake and take it for a ride. I didnt really notice any seat of the pants differance, but the car drove fine. Go back home and start on the lower pipe. With that installed, I take it out for another spin. Immediatly i notice that it pulls harder, but as i get to the end of the street and open it up more I hear all this air like a hose blew and the car ceases to accelerate smoothly, or really accelerate at all. I figure that i just blew off a pipe like Lee did at the dyno day, but i get back and everything is still on and tight. The car idles perfectly, but has trouble boosting "i assume". I come home from work today, take off the lower and replace it with the stocker again, since that it was after that part that it had problems. I take it out and it pulls like a stock car again... for a few pulls. I notice that the turbo creeped past 15 psi this time and its starts idling badly and running genuinely poor. I take it home put it back to stock, with the exception of the intake and it still idles like shit. We leave it running and it just naturally smoothes out. I drive it and it still stumbles, but the idle is smooth again. We put back my intake(I had tom's on to test if it was my maf and it wasnt), start it back up and its running bad again. The only difference between our intakes is that he jb welded the filter adapter to the MAF, so i decided to put some RTV on mine to see if it was a vacuum leak. ANY THOUGHTS????