vehicle speed sensor. for some reason, they decided to put it into the intake on our cars and some aftermarkets have them, some don't. if they don't, the VSS can just dangle in the engine bay. as far as i know, the injen doesn't have a hole for it, but my AEM does have a hole for it. when you pull it out of the stock airbox, keep the little gasket that goes around it.

as far as the code thing goes, i have never had any of my intakes pull codes and i have had a few. i don't see how it could pull too much air naturally aspirated, since the turbo proteges are basically the same as a sedan, just with a turbo and a little tuning and pull way more air past the MAF. you can use turbo protege parts for a naturally aspirated protege with no problems, so i don't see where you would have issues here.

your profile says that you are from PA where it doesn't get that hot, right? if i were you, i would get the SRI.

 

wheres this vss at? on the maf? yeah im from pa it gets like 105 sometimes haha but i think i might go with the short ram, and leave that part of the intake infront of the grill intact to blow air onto the SRI's filter too? soundfeasible?does this vss serve any purpouse if its just gonna be out in the engine bay anyways?.. and the screws on my MAF are like stripped totally any ideas on how to go about getting that off haha?

 

Two things...

My VSS is hanging and it dosent seem to effect anthing at all. As far as I know the only reason its mounted is so all of the wires are kept neat.

Second, the striped screws on your MAF. My intake came with new screws on it. There is a chance yours will too so that when you attach the MAF you dont need to wory about the thread size. That should take care of re attaching your MAF. as far as getting it off of the stock intake, it is possible to apply enough preassure to the head of the screw when attempting to unscrew that the screw will turn anyways. If that fails, bring it to your local hardware store and see if the cant help. I broke the head off a screw on my exhaust tip and when I brought it in and asked someoone to help me, he got the screw right out for me. A warning though, that is a pricey sensor so dont just let the 15 year old shop assistant try to hack and slash at it. Your gonna want someone with a little know-how.

Hope that helped, and good luck with that.

 

nice thanks for the info. but just a thought, isn't theVSS supposed to control the speedometer? hows that work out?..yeah i was just checking out the most likley candidate to make it under my hood and says it comes with screws. you guys got any ideas opinons about this?:

http://weapon-r.com/english/index.ph...oducts_id=5269

 

it looks nice. weapon r is a good company and i am looking at a set of turbo intercooler pipes from them for my rx7. i like it.

 

nice any insight on the VSS situation wsoape? i'm not understanding how you can just let it dangle there and have the speedometer work correctly?

 

i am not sure how, but i never had any problems with my injen intake and it just dangled in the engine bay. my speedo was correct too, because the cop clocked me at 77 in a 60 and that is exactly what my speedo said.

 

Nice... lol... My spedo works fine too. You feel the power kick in and the spedo heads north. Just seems to work. Any Idea on what that mounting bracket in the picture is... mine came with one but I have no idea what its for....

 

yeah its to mount it. =p. i belive from the instructions on the site and pics ive seen of them installed it goes near the front left if im not mistaken?

 

talked to a guy whos put the weapon r on his 2000 protege lx and he said he thinks theres a slot he put the vss in so .