ok so i'd like to remove my air pump. do i have to continue with the removal of the emissions system or can i just leave it there. (i dont have the time or the parts to finish the removal of the E system) iv got the belt needed so thats not a problem. so let me know ok

 

you can just remove it. just block off what it connects to.

 

Have you removed your cat?

Not an expert here, but IIRC without the fresh air to the cat, it's prone to clogging.

Then your car will run like chit

 

Are there any side effects to removing just the air pump and blocking it off? I'd like to do this too as I've already removed the cat, but don't want to remove the entire rats nest right now.

 

blocking off the points where it connected should do you just fine.

 

yes, there are some side effects to removing the air pump. you have to remove the belt Lully and depending on the year of car your vacumn brakes will be gone and you run it with just old fashion brakes. you need to block off all the lines going to and from it. this will clog your cat as someone earlier said. so if u do I would remove your cat. some of the rats nest might not work but I'm not sure what will and won't.

 

well i plan on re doing the exhaust soon anyways soo its really no biggie and as for the rats nest the car dosent have ac or cruise controll so nothing in there that would make me cry if it dident work.

 

ya then i wouldnt be afriad to pull it out. you can pull the nest out aswell if your doing it.

 

uh....no. the brake booster vac hose connects to the intake. removing the air pump will have no effect on the brakes. only real problem of removing the pump leaves just the alt belt to drive the wp leaving very little belt contact with the pulley. some experience slippage at high rpm. an easy fix is what some have dubbed the yahoo belt. just a small belt the fits tightly around the main pulley and wp pulley and is installed by just getting the belt started around one pulley and working it around on the other.

 

ooh ok sorry for the confusion

 

i'v got the yahoo belt

so i dident get around to doing it this weekend. i atempted to put a stereo in.. atempted is the opritive word. the previous owners did some rather keife wiring so i need to rip the entire car apart to properly do it. so im driving around with my deck on the pasanger seat for a week untill i can get the time to fix it.

 

Hehe - Yahoo belt. It sounds like the belt used for the Mazda3 AC compressor. I've never seen a car that had a belt from the factory without adjustment until this car. We have one, BTW, and I was shocked when I went to do a belt replacement on it and found that there was a "special" tool from Mazda to install that belt.
Maybe they took a page from the RX-7 club?? :-)