if u can make time to come to my house in so. cal and let me borrow ur s5 AFM, na or t2, i dont care, just need to verify that it is indeed the problem.. i spent over 250 dollars on used afms... and none of them worked so far... any help would be appreciated, and thanked with FREE BEER!

 

sounds good...cypress ca

 

why does everything good happen in Cali?

 

ya im like 1 of about ******* 5 second gens in south louisiana its bull **** i tell ya!

 

yep, i hear ya. ive seen one within 75 miles of here. 3 about 1.5 hours from here. but thats when the club gets together.

 

I dunno how many you've gone through (a brand new one from Mazda is OVER $1,000), but if we're talking more than 2 or 3, then I don't think the AFM is the problem...


-Ted

 

I kinda like being one of very few around here. half the people dont' know what it is, and you sure get alot of looks. Then you get the "how many cylinders is it?" "none, it's a rotary.." "so.. it has 4 cylinders?" hahaa

And by the way.. i'll take some beer, you ship to canada?

 

i was thinking the same thing, i see people say the AFMs are junk but i personally haven't seen a single one fail yet. maybe i just have been lucky in that sense but i doubt it, i think people just like closing their eyes and pointing the finger of blame.

 

The wiring harness is 1000 times more likely to fail than an AFM.

You may get a better response in the west forum too.

 

I have a S5 na that I know worked when I pulled it out. Bring me a 6pack of bass ale and its your. Im in Glendora.
Thanks Robert

 

before you go swapping more parts, what is it doing?
does it fire up at all? try?

 

ok, heres the thing, sorry i havnt had the chance to check up on my post, but if the AFM is plugged in, then one of them doesnt let it start at all, the other ones let it start, rev to 3000 because of the accelerated warm up system, then turns off... not stalls, or bogs out, but simply turns off as if someone turned the key off... if i start it with the AFM unplugged, it revs to 3k, and idles, but idles roughly... once i let it warm up and all that jazz, i tried to plug the afm in, but withing 3 seconds it just turns off once again...

yo, hit me up on the PM if u still got time and leave ur number so we could work out a time ... btw is it an S5? because i need the S5 AFM

hit me up on the PM as well cause i'll be down to pick it up asap

 

also, im getting a little bit of smoke coming from the exhaustmanifold/turbo, right under the LIM, i have no idea where the leak is coming from, im assuming its something leaking onto the manifold, and boiling off... im scared its the Pulstation Dampener, i heard its less likely to go bad on an s5, but wen we couldnt get fuel, my dad switched the lines, and i think he was forcing fuel against the pulsation dampener...