I read snflupigus's article on installing an open element but i still have a question....what do you do about the vaccum hose that was coming out of the manifold?

 

I did mine years ago but I don't remember one coming out of the MANIFOLD to the air cleaner. There is one coming from the TBI that you simply plug. Maybe I am wrong but I am pretty sure that there is none from the manifold.

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Teal 1991 Camaro R.S., T-Tops,
Leather, Re-worked 700r4 also w/kit,
MSD ignition, MSD 8.5 mm. superconductor wires,
MSD Coil, ADS superchip, Open element air cleaner,
K-n-N filter, Gutted cat, Flowmaster cat-back system,
Edelbrock TES headers, March 3piece billet underdrive pulleys
3.73 gears
http://www.geocities.com/gitarz2/camaro.html
I was shocked to see that companies sold a taillight
set for a rustang! Since when do they have taillights????

 

It is a vacuum hose that goes from the drivers side manifold to the snorkel on the stock aircleaner.....i think it pumps exhaust back throught the intake????

 

If that is what you are referring to that is what heats the base of the throttle body so it can operate properly in cold temperatures. I just disregarded mine and plugged the vaccuum line up. Some say that it can cause problems when it gets cold and your car runs funny but in 3 years here in Ohio where it gets to sometimes 5 or 10 degrees on a warm day in winter, I have had no problems.

Eric

 

what did you plug it with?

 

A vacuum port plug..

Most of our more ghetto-rigging inclined people just use a vacuum line with a screw in it though (yuck).

 

I like the golf tee and rubberband look myself.

 

I used a hex headed bolt.

 

Ghetto rigged with a screw here, and I claim to be nothing else

You should see my exhaust! 3" to the 2.25 y-pipe is the most ghetto rigged thing ever!

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Chuck Kulchar
1991 RS
Open Element w/K&N
3.42 - posi - disc
3" cat and Force II cat-back

 

Ain't nuttin' wrong with the screw in the end of the vacuum hose. I ran mine like that for multiple years. You can't even see it unless you pull the air cleaner off.

-Mark W.
'88 SC Camaro w/ 305 TBI

 

I just bought a vacum plug at advanced auto parts but i was gonna rig it with the screw/hose but, well i didn't have any hose! LOL what else is knew, me with no ho's... J/k I'll grow up now...

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88 Camaro (not an RS, or an IROC, justa camaro.)
305TBI/700R4/2.73
14" Open Element and Flowmaster 80 seires

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