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Old 06-04-2011   #3
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Default Re: Car is sputtering & hesitating under acceleration..Exhaust sounds muffled??

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Originally Posted by tomtom72 View Post
On this air duct thing, I've never had it happen to me so I'm not up on the symptoms.

Tom
Hey Tom!

I kin hep... Misfiring was not the issue resulting from the snorkel collapsing at WOT, but suddenly bogging (like someone just dropped an anchor out the back) is more like it.

Note: Marc has handy-dandy lil wire hoops that fit inside the accordion-like snorkel tube to keep it from collapsing. But, what I did was similar to your solution - I made a sleeve our of 18(?) ga aluminum sheet metal that slips (snuggly) inside the snorkel - actually extends under the lip of the filter box opening and is anchored there.

The sleeve method frustrates removing and reinstalling the snorkel a bit, due to its rigidity. But, considering how some people feel hogging out the air horn promotes performance, but ignoring the air flow in the un-sleeved snorkel preceding it...seems (to me) to be like removing only one (of the smaller) resistors in series!? Just a thought.


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