Intake Q

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Intake Q

Post by SSASSC1 » Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:31 am

Hi Guys

Decided to pull my airbox and intake off over the weekend. Pulled out the MAFs and gave them a good clean and then did a ECU reset. Can runs much smoother IMO..

Anyway, When the intake was off noticed that one of the airbox supports were missing and there was a hole in the manifold. Pic below

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Car runs great but I'm not sure having a open hole in the manifold is a good idea?

Should I plug it up?

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Re: Intake Q

Post by Shoppinit » Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:40 am

Where's the hole?
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Re: Intake Q

Post by SSASSC1 » Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:04 am

Hi

If you look closely at the picture you will see 2 x red circles (crappy photo chop attempt) on the manifold. The holes are there
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Re: Intake Q

Post by Shoppinit » Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:19 am

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You mean these location holes for the airbox locating lugs?

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Re: Intake Q

Post by SSASSC1 » Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:24 am

Yeah that's it

One of the lugs are missing from underneath the intake box, hence one of the holes are exposed.

That bad?
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Re: Intake Q

Post by Shoppinit » Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:28 am

Audi are partial to a bit of silly engineering, but even they wouldn't leave gaping holes into the inlet manifold. Those holes don't go into the inlet.
But you do need new grommets, and a new airbox by the sound of it. Looks like your car has had some rough loving.
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Re: Intake Q

Post by SSASSC1 » Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:45 am

Thx for that.

Yep, she is a bit "tardy" right now, but I aim to fix her up :)
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