i have goten rid of all 3 of my cats
i am going to make a cold air intake setup
what are some more quick things that i can do to get some more hp or make the engine bay cleaner i like my P/S and a/c is there more than that? what about my air pump without my cats is it needed any more?
i have done a search on the air pump but it dint answer my question.
thanks

 

You don't need the air pump if you have an S4 aslong as you don't have cats but on an S5 you need it to operate the VDI and auxilary ports. Also if you have gutted the cats and you have an S4 your ports may not open properly now.

Santiago

 

yea better ditch the air pump now that you've got no cats. your 5th and 6th's won't work right anymore oh well.

 

tow hitches, rear carpet, storage bins, all rear plastic, spare tire, common i live in San Antoio and I have removed my a/c and p/s, all that with the rack is like 120+

 

I will soon have a straigh through custom exhaust, (no cats) on my TII, should I remove the air pump entirely?

The previous owner has the belt taken off, and the line running to the stock cat has sections that were taken out.

What to do?

 

YANK OFF THE AC !!!!! hell i live in texas..i aint got no AC !

 

I got you all beat. I live in LaredoTexas fools!! 100+ in the summer. I can take it.

 

Hmm, you "no Air" guys make me laugh... You know that at temps above 101F your brain starts frying and you loose brain cells, right???

Of course that also explains a lot of why some people post what they do here.

Yep, Air conditioning keeps people smarter (and cooler).

Heck there are times when I drive my 'vert with the roof down and the air condition cranked on full.

 

 

All three of my cars have had no functional A/c
I graduated with great grades and several honors and received three scholarships while havine lived in 100+ temps all my life. I don't know what the difference with me is but I still have good brain power.


Santiago

 

lol i grew up in plano TX, if we had a car with ac, we were lucky.... gonna be moving back when i get out of the navy, and i'll be damned if my rex has ac:P

(btw we usually have 100+ degree weather for 50 or so days straight, have one cloudy day, then 100+ degree weather yet again for the rest of the summer lol.... )

 

yeah, you guys are dumb. i huff freon to keep my brain chilly and smart. naw, i don't have a/c either, but i bought the car without working air conditioning. i just live with it.

 

However, Irony and sarcasm seem lost on you eh???

 

 

A/C is a waste of space up north here where we only have summer for two days of the year

Oh, I'm pretty sure that 101F is body temp, not ambient

 

how can i fix it so my ports do open properly?
wire?

 

There are two main ways. A pre-silencer or electric/neumatic actuation.

 

so there is really nothing i can do about it without spending any money.
what if i leave my air pump on?
or dose it not matter now that my cats are gone?

 

you can rig the airpump to control the 6 ports, this is really easy, only cost about $5 in parts from homedepot. You need a ball valve (METAL), preferably threaded, then find some threaded hose barbs that fit, find a vac hose barb and jam that into the rubber hose and epoxy it in place. put the ball valve at the end of the hose, and get someone to hold the car around 3500rpm and adjust the ball valve until you see the ports open, and tada you're done

 

do you have some pics of that setup?
could you post them


a picture is worth a thousand words

 

I can go take ugly pictures of my setup, gotta find an extenion chord for my cam

 

repost it on this thread so i know what to look for thanks

 

Downloading them now, post them in a sec.

 

Here's a pic of the ball valve fully assembled, behind it is the hose from the airpump with the barb attached (the clear wire goes to the 5&6 port actuators) Just turn the red dial to adjust





There's a pic of it going to the airpump, I used lots of electrical tape as I sort of rigged mine up more than I had to hehehe

 

Where does the air exhaust to after passing that adjustable valve that you have got there?