AOW162435

Well, this mod only costs $14 + shipping, whereas the RS heater tube costs a million dollars.





Andreas

jaholmes

I would think you would want to leave the manifold and put a plug where the SAI went.

TheOtherEric

Fixed it for ya. And yes, I probably agree. But I never bothered to remove my tubing or check valve. I figured it would be too much hassle to find plugs.

AOW162435

Well, the plugs from Patrick Motorsports are meant to close the cam tower holes where the SAI pipes attach. I'm more curious about the manifold, and whether it's simply bolted to the case. If ROW cars do not have this system, I can't believe there's anything under the manifold that opens into the case. Just an assumption though. I'm ordering the plugs tomorrow...


Andreas

jscott82

Yup.. nothing underneath...
The biggest hasle is getting the intake off (and even that is not too bad). Once the intake is gone, simple undo the three or 4 bolts holding the manifold and pump down, unscrew the tubing from the cam towers, and you are done... put plugs back in the towers, and replace the bolts.... and its miller time...

edit: and do some spring cleaning while you are in there.. there are all kinds of nooks and cranies for dust to get into...

AOW162435

Thank you. I still owe you an answer regarding your Biopace steering wheel. Heading out to the shop now...


Andreas

jscott82

I can't remember... are you planning on doing fuel filter? While the intake is out of the way, would be a great time to takle that and any injector maintince...

AOW162435

I replaced the can earlier this year.


Andreas

AOW162435

Yep - same.


Andreas

jscott82

gracias amigo

AOW162435

My pleasure, El Jefe.


Andreas

JM993

Ah, you must have a 95. V-ram intakes are a bit more time consuming to remove. In doing my v-ram conversion, I deleted the SAI entire system. The nuts holding SAI manifold will drop harmlessly under the car.

TheOtherEric

I wasn't comfortable removing my entire 1995 intake, so I just removed the left and right banks. Something about all those electrical connectors and stuff kinda made me nervous...

jscott82

Yes.. 95, I would imagine the V-Ram is a bit more cumbersome to get out. But really there are not that many wires and tubes.... and they only go back in one way (to the best of my knollege). But a good digital camera helps, just to be sure.

And of course one you have the intake off, imeadiatly stuff rags in the open intake ports... its seems they act like a magnet for any loose objects...

NP993

If you have a v-ram car (see sig), and you remove the SAI system, will the car still pass emissions? Isn't this just for cold-start emissions, and thus would be irrelevant for normal emissions testing? Or would it be detected when the gubmint testing station plugs into the OBDII computer and reads the codes?