My Intake Fell Off!!!
by JoKo » Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:41 pm
What the fux!
I was heading home from School around 5pm on Monday. I just got onto interstate rt. 50 and was merging to some real fast traffic. I got up to bout 70mph and merged over and kept on speeding up to about 75 when I suddenly felt a lose in power. I got up to 80 and let off the gas, it hesitated and lagged, so I put it in neutral in fear of something horrible. As soon as it was in Neutral the engine cut off.
OK WTF!
I couldn't pull over right away cuz i was in the left lane with a shitload of traffic everywhere, and I was merely coasting from 80mph so no one was on my ass yet, I tried starting it again... It started up but cuts off after a second.
I put my blinkers on and get to the shoulder. Tried to start it a couple more times, checked the engine bay and saw nothing seriously wrong. I checked my oil and it seemed fine (I just got it changed 2 weeks ago). So I called up my friend to see what he was up to. He said he was just about to get off work and he'd come out when he can to help me out. Sweet!
I then called up my girlfriend to tell her about this and as I was on the phone I caught something really awkward. MY flippin INTAKE FELL OFF!!
The whole intake pipe was out of the throttle body. So I re-installed it, started the car, gave it some revs and it sounded fine. Called up my friend and told him the good news.
At first I was confused because I thought an engine can work fine without an air-filter, but I was forgetting one thing. Inside the short-ram intake is my MAF (Mass-AirFlow) sensor. (For those who don't know) This is the thing that tells the engine how much air is in the intake so it can put enough fuel in to match it up. Since no air was going through the pipe, the MAF was reading near 0 probably so the engine was giving it nearly 0 fuel, thats why the Starter could work fine and kick it over but it would die after that.
My check-engine light came on last night, I ignored it cuz it comes on a lot. After I put my intake back on the light went away. So I'll be checking things when my light comes on from now on.
Criminal: INJEN Short-Ram Intake. There was some oil in the hose that connects the pipe to the throttlebody so that probably is the culprit.
Man this scared the crap out of me...
I was heading home from School around 5pm on Monday. I just got onto interstate rt. 50 and was merging to some real fast traffic. I got up to bout 70mph and merged over and kept on speeding up to about 75 when I suddenly felt a lose in power. I got up to 80 and let off the gas, it hesitated and lagged, so I put it in neutral in fear of something horrible. As soon as it was in Neutral the engine cut off.
OK WTF!
I couldn't pull over right away cuz i was in the left lane with a shitload of traffic everywhere, and I was merely coasting from 80mph so no one was on my ass yet, I tried starting it again... It started up but cuts off after a second.
I put my blinkers on and get to the shoulder. Tried to start it a couple more times, checked the engine bay and saw nothing seriously wrong. I checked my oil and it seemed fine (I just got it changed 2 weeks ago). So I called up my friend to see what he was up to. He said he was just about to get off work and he'd come out when he can to help me out. Sweet!
I then called up my girlfriend to tell her about this and as I was on the phone I caught something really awkward. MY flippin INTAKE FELL OFF!!
The whole intake pipe was out of the throttle body. So I re-installed it, started the car, gave it some revs and it sounded fine. Called up my friend and told him the good news.
At first I was confused because I thought an engine can work fine without an air-filter, but I was forgetting one thing. Inside the short-ram intake is my MAF (Mass-AirFlow) sensor. (For those who don't know) This is the thing that tells the engine how much air is in the intake so it can put enough fuel in to match it up. Since no air was going through the pipe, the MAF was reading near 0 probably so the engine was giving it nearly 0 fuel, thats why the Starter could work fine and kick it over but it would die after that.
My check-engine light came on last night, I ignored it cuz it comes on a lot. After I put my intake back on the light went away. So I'll be checking things when my light comes on from now on.
Criminal: INJEN Short-Ram Intake. There was some oil in the hose that connects the pipe to the throttlebody so that probably is the culprit.
Man this scared the crap out of me...
99 SLE Silver Solara AUTO 
TRD Muffler, Injen intake, Euro Tails, Tein Springs, Tokico Shocks
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