Post intake install - more vrooom, less thrust? help!
Ok. So I've enjoyed Berk v2 on my car for about a week now and everything was great (3.5 SE auto). More power. Louder Vrrrrrrooooom. Here is the problem I've noticed over the weekend though.
I took a 2 hr trip upstate over the weekend and car was acting normal. About 30 minutes into the trip (driving at 60 MPH because of family), car seems to hesitate when I give gas and doesn't know what to do. For examply when I was getting on to the highway from the ramp (going 25mph), I would give it gas as usual and there was LOUD ROAR but no speed or thrust that I usually felt. My initial thinking was it could be the tranny but it seemed like it was shifting fine. I shut the car down and check to see if everything looked ok under the hood (shut down about 5 minutes) and afterwards car was acting normal again. This has happened to me twice so far, once over the weekend and once Monday night. Both times, LOUD ROAR, no SPEED. Both times, I would shut down the car few minutes and everything was back to normal.
As a side note, I did play with the car little rough for that initial 1st week (punching the gas testing the new intake). It wasn't to the point of wreckless driving, but I had fun. I saw from another post that someone had exact same thing happen to them after installing berk (LOUD roar, no thrust). He swapped to stock intake to take to dealer and he says that car seems more responsive with stock intake. I'll switch to stock tonight just to see if there's a difference.
Anyone have any ideas as to what is going on? Has anyone else experienced this and what was your solution? I'm thinking it could be the ECU not adjusting (I doubt intake swap could cause such unbalance in a/f ratio, but then again I'm not that mechanical) or may be car is "choked" - more air in, but can't exhaust fast enough? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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a friend of mine installed a boost gauge on his WRX..
I was wondering if we have something like that for the SE-R..
^ LOL. Automagic. I like that. Next non-family car will be MT for sure. I hear people get sick of MT but I actually get sick of AT. Bah.
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Check all piping and couplers for leaks, especially after the MAF.
I'll check it out. I had a feeling it could be a leak but didn't get a chance to check it thoroughly. I'll do idle learning procedure as well. I did try this few times but couldn't get it to work (just bought a $2 stop watch just to do this. ). IF by chance I couldn't get the procedure to work like an idiot (seems like nobody has problem doing this except me), would taking the battery off accomplish the same thing?
Thank you for your advices. I'll let y'all know what the outcome is.
Is it safe to take the car through a car wash. In the winters I usually get it washed at a Sunoco Touchless, cause its too cold to hand wash it and I dont want the salt to stay on the paint for long..
I took it through the car wash a week ago with the berk on it. There were some water droplets on the intake pipe and a lil bit of water near the filter..Is that ok?
Is it safe to take the car through a car wash. In the winters I usually get it washed at a Sunoco Touchless, cause its too cold to hand wash it and I dont want the salt to stay on the paint for long..
I took it through the car wash a week ago with the berk on it. There were some water droplets on the intake pipe and a lil bit of water near the filter..Is that ok?
You'd be amazed how much water gets under the hood driving on the interstate in the rain. As long as the filter isn't subject to direct water, you should be fine. If you want to be safer, shut the car off during the wash.
It surpasses my knowledge as to why people would run a CAI, with the risks of hydolocking an engine, for the tiny, tiny gains it provides over a WAI.
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Neither quite stock.
It surpasses my knowledge as to why people would run a CAI, with the risks of hydolocking an engine, for the tiny, tiny gains it provides over a WAI.
Wouldn't a bypass valve solve that though?
Cold air intakes are more common and easier to get.
Strauss, Autozone, etc even have them in there stores but mention a warm or short ram intake and they're like .... huh?
Wouldn't a bypass valve solve that though?
Cold air intakes are more common and easier to get.
Strauss, Autozone, etc even have them in there stores but mention a warm or short ram intake and they're like .... huh?
Not sure on the bypass...never dealt with a CAI for an Altima.
I think a lot more people know what a cold air intake is, because of marketing, K&N especially. Most of their kits are no more than horribly overpriced WAI kits, but from a marketing point of view, "cold air" sounds better than "warm air". I also have yet to see a true ram-air intake on the market today for any vehicle. The ONLY one I know of is a setup like my car - WS.9 hood. The location of the hood nostrils, the location and design of the intake and manifold, allow a "ram air" effect. However, there is a massive mythos surrounding the concept, and how "great" it is. It's pretty much worthless.
Found the culprit under the hood. When I first installed Berk, the small pipe with the hose that goes into the engine was loose... So instead of buying a hose clamp that make it fit tighter, I taped the pipe with an electrical tape to make the fit tighter . So long story short, tape glue melted and the tape started to slide in toward the eigine and it was blocking the air flow. Another few inches and I would've had major problem with a electrical tape stuck inside the engine!
After using a real clamp ($0.95) to clamp the hose down, car went right back to normal. I did the idle learning procedure just for the heck of it and that worked as well. So everything seems to be fine for now. No mo' hesitation.
asleep is a stream of off-color and low-cooth jokes in person as well. I've been recycling jokes I heard from him for years. He is known by my friends as "the sick fuck."
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seems like you just killed someone with your Daewoo Lanos Asleep. lol
Is it safe to take the car through a car wash. In the winters I usually get it washed at a Sunoco Touchless, cause its too cold to hand wash it and I dont want the salt to stay on the paint for long..
I took it through the car wash a week ago with the berk on it. There were some water droplets on the intake pipe and a lil bit of water near the filter..Is that ok?
There's plenty of water you get under the hood driving in the rain. Unless someone pours bucket of water onto the filter, it should be fine.
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Automagic!
). IF by chance I couldn't get the procedure to work like an idiot (seems like nobody has problem doing this except me), would taking the battery off accomplish the same thing?
. So long story short, tape glue melted and the tape started to slide in toward the eigine and it was blocking the air flow. Another few inches and I would've had major problem with a electrical tape stuck inside the engine! 
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