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Monday 19th May 2014, 09:18
As some of you may be aware I have recently had an engine management light on, after being connected up to vida it turned out my MAF had had it.
I therefore ordered a new Bosch MAF from Jamie at PFS which arrived last week, I thought at the same time it would be a good time to improve the intake while it was stripped down so ordered one of Graeme Welsh's intake kits which again arrived last week, so I was all set for sorting the car out over the weekend.
In the mean time I had a look on YouTube at installing the SNABB intake pipe just to see how easy it would be. All looked good and strait forward so shouldn't take too long.... or so I thought.
Well initially all went well stripped out the air box & old maf, I removed the engine stabilizer bar to give me a little more space, now on the you tube video it said to use an 8mm socket on extension bars to undo the bottom air intake / turbo retaining clasp, well once I started looking at it I found that clasp had been put on upside down and was not accessible from the top. I therefore had to lay under the car with a mirror torch and what should have been an 8mm fitting turned out to be 7mm, so my access to undo the clasp was the small gap between the Turbo and subframe mounting, using a dentists type mirror and torch to get the spanner on the clasp to undo it.
Well the whole job took me 3 hours by time I was done, to my relief all seems well with new intake and MAF fitted, car has now stopped hunting for revs and sits smoothly at Idle, it also picks up much quicker and is more responsive when accelerating.
Pics below once it was installed, only thing is now it puts rest of engine bay to shame so guess i'm going to end up having a cleaning session under there.
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r686/paulholmes1971/Mobile%20Uploads/20140518_184652_zps0d251899.jpg
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r686/paulholmes1971/Mobile%20Uploads/20140518_184705_zps48bae6e7.jpg
I therefore ordered a new Bosch MAF from Jamie at PFS which arrived last week, I thought at the same time it would be a good time to improve the intake while it was stripped down so ordered one of Graeme Welsh's intake kits which again arrived last week, so I was all set for sorting the car out over the weekend.
In the mean time I had a look on YouTube at installing the SNABB intake pipe just to see how easy it would be. All looked good and strait forward so shouldn't take too long.... or so I thought.
Well initially all went well stripped out the air box & old maf, I removed the engine stabilizer bar to give me a little more space, now on the you tube video it said to use an 8mm socket on extension bars to undo the bottom air intake / turbo retaining clasp, well once I started looking at it I found that clasp had been put on upside down and was not accessible from the top. I therefore had to lay under the car with a mirror torch and what should have been an 8mm fitting turned out to be 7mm, so my access to undo the clasp was the small gap between the Turbo and subframe mounting, using a dentists type mirror and torch to get the spanner on the clasp to undo it.
Well the whole job took me 3 hours by time I was done, to my relief all seems well with new intake and MAF fitted, car has now stopped hunting for revs and sits smoothly at Idle, it also picks up much quicker and is more responsive when accelerating.
Pics below once it was installed, only thing is now it puts rest of engine bay to shame so guess i'm going to end up having a cleaning session under there.
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r686/paulholmes1971/Mobile%20Uploads/20140518_184652_zps0d251899.jpg
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r686/paulholmes1971/Mobile%20Uploads/20140518_184705_zps48bae6e7.jpg