I have an airaid intake was looking around on it and seen i have the t pipe connected. It connects to the fender and a pipe that does nothing that sit on the radiator. I feel this sensor is robbing me of power when its hot as that pipe gets pretty warm but i have the Air raid quick fit intake. So its open and it isnt sucking in air through there so i think the heat is just building in there.
I live in florida pretty hot. But i pulled it out and started it, went from running slugish to being pretty normal again. I also sprayed it with maf cleaner looks pretty dirty. But how would i go about moving it to the intake? Maybe i could like drill a hole in the side of the intake hose and put it in there. Would that work or should i not be messing with it? i do know for a fact that it is still sucking in air through the fender even though it is open so maybe ill remove the fender resonator and go buy and oem sealed box?
Gonna try and move it to the tip of the cone filter as its rubber. All i know is it runs pretty good with it out of that pipe. With it in after it gets hot it feels like im trying to pull a trailer with about 800 pounds on it. Its anoying.
>Go buy and oem sealed box, Dump the cone as any water splashed up into the engine compartment will get sucked into the cone....
I Used a stock box with a K&N drop-in million mile filter. sh*t can the resonator and put the sensor in after the filter. put a hole in the plastic tube the filer box comes with...
Take off the t-pipe, fab a plug for the t-pipe hole and put the sensor in the plug. No sense trashing the end of the cone.
The reason K&Ns, Airaids, etc flow more is because the holes in the media are bigger. Meaning they let more stuff through too. If where you drive isn't too dusty no problem. If you like the sound and don't mind more dirt getting through it's all good.
Tommorow ill go pull an oem one from a junkyard and get a paper filter to put in it for now. Would rather not be messing with things that work with the computer. But this is gonna be a wheeling truck. Saving for a beater car that i can daily. Im trying to keep it in good shape until i can officially daily drive another car. But out of curiosity where does the oem pull air from? Im guessing the fender on the t pipe? Its sealed aint it? Oh and i also removed all the resonators today. And i am going to remove the stupid throttle body spacer while i am at it.
The t-pipe is the only intake source. Removing the resonator in the fender probably triples the volume of the intake into the filter housing. I got my first 18 mpg tank after removing that resonator.
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