ok i put my open element on 3 days ago and it seemed to be working good that night.... i didn't start the car after the install for 3 days... i start the car today and pull out on to the road and lay on the gas and........ it was DEAD it bogged really bad and was barly moving it sucked ***.... when i installed the open element all i did was remove the old stock breather, plugged the vacume on the TBI, and took the little dimond shaped thing with a filter in it out of the stock unit and hooked it back into the tube it was conected to before... popped the open element unit on and reset the computer...is that all i was suppost to do... i am lost..... please help my car is way slower now tham it was before this mod... thanks all



ohhh i took that stupid spacer off the TBI too.....
and its a non-drop base.

 

This might sound strange because I know everyone says you should but i never pluged my vacume and my car runs pretty damn good! All I did was reroute it, I put a small hole in the non-drop bass and shoved the tube that is connected to the vacume in there with no problem. Everything esle you did I did as well. I felt more power the second I drove off and still gives me no problem.

 

i think i found my problem guys.... i think i either have a dead plug or bad wires... i was reving it it to 4500 and it back-fired out the TBI and its missing this is usually because of dead plugs/wires... i am going to replace the wires and plugs soon... anything else i should do while i am at it???

 

You didnt plug the breather on the passenger side valve cover did you?, that would be your problem right there.

 

no i didn't plug the breather.... i just poped the distributer cap off to see if there was moisture in there well the little metel tabs were coroded pretty bad... i sanded all the corosion off and put it back on and WOW what a difference i will soon get new wires plugs and cap..just to replace all the stock stuff... advice for all... if you have your stock distributer cap and don't plan to replace it soon i highly recomend poping it off and sanding down those metal tabs in it (I don't know the tech term ) well worth 10 minutes...

 

you got to watch the camaros everytime i upgrade something something else breaks at that same monment and makes me think i somehow did something terribly wrong but just replacing plugs or something stupid like that

my dads mustang was missing real bad and running bad we took off the cap and it was worse than ive ever seen...rotor was snaped off and the points burned up..replaced them and it felt like we supercharged the thing (hehe well almost )

 

just make sure that you didn't accidentally unplug one of the injectors. I did that while installing mine and i started it and it literally didn't go over 15mph, and bogged all the way down the street. I took the cap off and quickly reconnected it. Your probably not that stupid (like me but just check in case it happened.

 

first off never plug the breather
secondly always plug the vacuum tube. Sure you can drive with it unplugged if you dont mind having a vacuum leak all the time.

 

Pablo, I don't understand about how it would be a vacume leak? It was breathing through the old aircleaner, granted it was a smaller hole but still it's not doing anything it hasn't befor! Im just asking because I don't know. My car seems to run better then befor the way it sits now and every time I plug it it seems like it's about to stall. Thats why I left it unpluged. Any insight on this would be good. thanks

 

Ok now someone is arguing that a vacuum leak is good..... :nono: plug it up and reset min air and the tps and see how that works and just for the heck of it look at timing also.

 

I guess ill try again, Im just confused about it, if it was breathing air before and it's breathing air now, then how is it a vacume leak It's doing nothing it hasn't befor. I don't mean to argue but hey, how else am I going to learn But again, ill try it once more.

 

because your going from that ugly snorkel and going to a open round air filter. Theres a vacuum line that controls the intake of that snorkel. Weather it beath throught the heatriser or cold air from the front, its controled by that vacuum line.

When you remove the stock airassembly, that vacuum line has to be plugged.
~Tim

 

I just put an open element on mine and it runs great! I can hear it taking in air and it has more responce!

 

AHHHhhhh! I see now, thanks