New pic of my engine bay.

[jamesk]

sorry this is a cell phone pick, so the quality is kind of crappy.

what i changed recently:

powdercaoted valve cover

new oil cap from ebay

new intake set up. its a blox 6 inch filter that goes onto the blox velocity funnel and the velocity funnel is conected to the maf sensor. actually this helped my throttle response greatly.

 

[jamesk]

here is the pic as an attachment

 

[aznsebass]

looks good. your valve cover looks pink... but thats most likely the cell phone picture quality.

 

[A louie]

Haha I have the same filter!!

Autozone/Advanced auto!!!! lol. Nice setup

 

[jamesk]

they sell blox at autozone?

 

[MSP2024]

Looks Good

 

[i12drivemyMP5]

Ummm, we're gonna need higher res pic buddy, LOL. We b pic hoz upinheeya. Coulda hooked ya up with that very same oil cap. My only thoughts on the filter location is....How much crap comes thru the radiator when rainy snotty on the frwy to dirty the filter with it there? If the dimensions of your filter are the same or very close to a K&N size you could get a drycharger moisture resistant elastic cover for the filter to help keep it clean. I have one and it makes no difference with or without it as far as restriction but keeps all but nano particles from dirtying the filter & sheds water like a ducks back. Lemme see if I can find a pic of mine. They come in different colors too.

Here's a link to a huge pic...................http://www.msprotege.com/members/i12drivemyMP5/P5engine_02.jpg

 

[jamesk]

actually the filter is so big its sitting over the radiator. it barely clears the hood. if it was in the path of the radiator, then i would not put it there.

 

[i12drivemyMP5]

Yeah, I did that with half of an sri where I had the filter right after the MAF but I didn't like where the filter was in relation to the flow thru the radiator. How long was the tubing on your previous intake? Do you think the throttle response is from shorter intake pipe or more from filter/velocity funnel?

 

[thejetman]

Nice, but does our stock ecu "learn" that there is too much air coming in, and compensate for it?

 

[i12drivemyMP5]

The rich get richer.

 

[jamesk]

Yeah, I did that with half of an sri where I had the filter right after the MAF but I didn't like where the filter was in relation to the flow thru the radiator. How long was the tubing on your previous intake? Do you think the throttle response is from shorter intake pipe or more from filter/velocity funnel?

yea my throtle response did improved pretty well. i think the gain is mostly elminating the bend, but the air comming in is much smoother and gain velocity because of the funnel as well. and this filter is not in the flow of the radiator, its over the raditor, so thats another plus about it.

 

[jamesk]

lol you guys are not going to believe this, but i was looking at the real times on my laptop from my splitsecond air fuel controller, and at full throttle, my car produces 1 psi from the intake, (but i also have the 626 manifold). my map is tuned all the way to .5 psi, but i had to move it to 1 psi, because my car was passing the .5 mark.

so i just thought that was pretty cool...

 

[i12drivemyMP5]

I need to do the ss afc thing. So you got psc1-020, wb o2/gauge & voltage clamp? Extra bung has to be welded in header?

 

[magnumP5]

lol you guys are not going to believe this, but i was looking at the real times on my laptop from my splitsecond air fuel controller, and at full throttle, my car produces 1 psi from the intake, (but i also have the 626 manifold). my map is tuned all the way to .5 psi, but i had to move it to 1 psi, because my car was passing the .5 mark.

so i just thought that was pretty cool...

Hate to say it but that isn't possible regardless what the AFC says. The AFC is tuned to some standard atmosphere so apparently where you are is affecting it's reading. This happens to me as well - when I'm in Blacksburg (elevation 2100 ft) the AFC reads like -2.0 mm Hg when the car is off! Up here, when my boost gauge reads 10 psi, the AFC is only seeing like 8.5. However, when I'm back in Virginia Beach (elevation 0 ft) the AFC reads like -0.2 mm Hg with the car off and close to 10 psi (like 9.8) when I'm at WOT. It is not possible for an N/A to create positive pressure because the engine is doing all the 'sucking'.

However, you did do the right thing by tuning into the '1 psi region'. What you are doing is kind of fooling the AFC because you have it set to gauge pressure under settings. If it were switched to absolute pressure it would make more sense (0 gauge pressure ~ 14.7 psi absolute)

 

[jamesk]

no there are cars that are NA are are acutally powerful enough to produce PSI. maybe your right about my car, but not for other cars. Some NA cars actually do enough "sucking" to do that.

and i have the ss afc and wideband. you do not need a voltage clamp because the afc has one already.