ok..going back to the previous statement about check engine lights...yeah my intake consantly pulls a code...not sure what it is thought cus the shop i went to who read it...well their book didn't go that high to tell them what it was....and anyways...i think the vss...anyways in my inake it just had a post that i attached it to...and i'm w/ wsoape in that you would be ok to let it dangle but if you can just tie it down

 

Just so people don't think I'm nuts:

One of the first replies to this question included a picture of one of the presidential candidates with a very negative caption. That is what I was responding to. Our moderator must have deleted the post along with another one which included an inappropriate put down of the person asking for info about the effects of a new intake on his MAF. [align=left] [/align]

 

Oh haha I know what you're talking about now. I thought you were saying that Ecotec was political hahaha =p.

 

Is this early april fools or some ****?

if you do not know what the **** you are talking about don't post with misinformation because you will just make **** worse. this isn't a little deal, i cannot believe so many people believe that the little sensor with a post that goes into your intake is a Vehicle Speed Sensor (VSS) think about it, how is a sensor in the intake going to tell you how fast your vehicle is going? that sensor in question is an Intake Air Temperature (IAT) sensor. It needs to be there or you will throw a MIL. Do not just let it dangle, if there is no hole in the tube to put it drill one. Otherwise fasten it to the filter so it can read the incoming air temp

the VSS is in the transmission, or if you have a 2.0 and ABS, there is no VSS. the ECU gets your speed from the ABS sensors

 

i am sorry if i was originally misinformed. i didn't intentionally misinform anyone here, i was just telling everyone what i was told, but;

1. you didn't need to be such a ********** about it. you could have just pointed it out instead of basically just telling me that i am stupid. you can e-thug all that you want, but it doesn't fly well with me.

2. my old protege had an injen CAI that had no place for the IAT and i left it dangling. i know a lot of people that leave it dangling. i never had any problems in the 40k miles that i put on the intake and never had a CEL.

3. i am not stupid, only slightly misinformed. i got my information from a supposedly reliable source and it was wrong. ****ing sue me.

 

It wasn't directed at just you. I'm surprised it went un-noticed for this many posts.

anyway, leaving the IAT dangling but connected will not throw a MIL, only if you disconnect it. the IAT is one the sensors the ECU uses to adjust timing advance and fuel trim. so if the temp the IAT is giving the ECU is different than the air entering the intake, you will be hurting your performance.

if the pipe does not have a hole, drill one and stick the IAT in there. it should have a rubber grommet. if not, you can use anything that fits and holds it in the pipe. if you don't feel like going through that trouble, you can fasten the sensor to the outside of the filter so the air moves past it.... some people pull the filter off, throw the sensor in the pipe and put the filter back on. It works but i would not advise this as it will crimp the wires and overtime the vibration would eventually cut the wires.

Note: "You" and "You're" is general and directed to no one specific.