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Old 03-04-03, 09:58 PM
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Question about headers and air pump?

I bought the rb headers but i still don't understand soemthing, ok i want to remove the air pump, of course i won't need it after i remove the cats, but i was reading some other threads that the sixth port it will not open completely because of that and it will loose power ?
Am I wrong if not how can i fix that??

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What year FC do you have?
For 86-88 you can remove the air pump and the auxilary ports will still work
For 89-91 you must leave the pump on for the ports to function.
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88, so it'll still work w/o the air pump???
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ok in the S4 cars the air pump does not control the opening of the ports there is a vaccume line on the split air hose I think that is what it is called that creats the pressure for the ports to open. If you get the full system like i did form mazdatrix it comes with an adaptation to the header that hooks up to a vaccume line that replaced the split air tube and the Air Control Valve. With my setup I also recieved a block off plate for the ACV but this can be purchased seperately.
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If you remove the cats, no. You'll have to wire them open or come up with another method to get them open.
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I hope you got the header with the adaptation on it or else you will get screwed in the low RPM range. You will lose a lot of power and gain nothing.
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So, w/o the cats won't open?
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I have the rb header n rb presilincer
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The aux. ports run off the small pipe that comes out of your cat which makes backpressure and produces about force to open your aux. ports. If you take off that cat, they won't operate.
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So, w/o the cats won't open?


the split air tube hooks up to the ACV and the ACV hools up to the Air Pump so no pump ACV don woik ACV no woik split air tube no WOIK. I have not cats and my ports still function. I have the Mazdatrix dual exhaust which is the same as you except I have two pre-silencers and it is uncollected.
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http://mazdatrix.com/r-8.htm
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1987rx7guy did you get "H" the presilencer because that gets the pressure for the aux. ports like a cat.
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ok, but with just the header and presilencer it'still work ?
Sorry for asking again
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Riptyde I have the MT Duals on the header which is a Racing Beat one they have made an adaptation for both an O2 sensor and a smaller fitting where they have a small tube that comes with the kit and that takes the place of the split air tube and provides the pressure.

Max-Imal I think you will probably need to wire the ports open even if the air pump does not operate them. One thing I can aske you to do to verify is to check the header you bought and see if it has two wholes on it one should fit the O2 sensor and the other the one which is in question should be a small one if you do not have this one than I doubt you will be able to operate your ports without some thing else. I do not know what riptyde means by the H in the pre-silencer either.
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Yes, the header come with the O2 Sensor whole , but that's it, the other one it's on the pre-silencer kind like a thin tube coming out of it, i think that's the one you're talking about
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Well I think you are going to have to find yourself some high temp tubing to put on that thing and hook it up to where the split air tube's vacumes line hooks up to. Do you know where that is?
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Hey are you from laredo right?
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yeah why?
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Well the little tube where it hooks up is kinda hard to find with the old exhaust still on there but once yu get it off you have a lot more space to find it. Let me think about how to explain it to you.
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What color is your FC? DO you have an instant messenger I could talk faster to you over that
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