air filter causeing car problems.. need help

[suprafanatic]

i have the filter going stright on to the afm.. around the 4 bolts..lol so theres a small gap around the filter and afm.. so some free flowing air is going in i think thats causeing the bad idle and the afm to go bad... BUT if i put an adapter on it so its sealed up the car idles better but cant boost more than 5psi cause it like hits small fuel cuts or somthing the car wont accel any more its really wierd.. so i need the air filter sealed up to the afm so it idles better but i cant or the car wont accel at all.. what to do??

 

[ImperfectSupra]

try a better flowing filter so u can tighten it up all the way

 

[suprafanatic]

like what? it would have to be extemely high flowing..lol i put a cloth around the gap to serve as a filter and it still drove like crap..lol it did idle better tho.

 

[ImperfectSupra]

i tried to put cloth around the opening of the afm once and it sputtered plenty. try resetting the ecu by pulling out the efi fuse for a whole minute then put it back in. it might take a few days before the ecu relearn and calibrate the new amount of air. i resetted my car 3 days ago and it finally drove right. chances are that your car will die out at every stop light. by the way if you cant boost 5psi. there is something else going on like vacuum or boost leak. stock boost is 6+psi.

............i took a look at your air filter. its cotton so stick your hands inside the filter and spread it out kinda like a ball that way u get more air without the cloth. it doesnt look good but i did this on my kn and it works good.

 

[suprafanatic]

it wont let me boost more than 5 psi when its closed up cause its not geting enough air flow...when its open i can get 10psi then fuel cut

 

[ImperfectSupra]

it seem like you have a lot of space, how bout a long cone filter, mine is 16 inch, i got it from auto zone for 35.00 or two filters. yeah i know cheap mod that work is the way to go, check out my galllery for the pic of my air filter, its huge.

 

[americanjebus]

post some pics of this, maybe theres something missing from the story.


Is the honeycomb mesh still intact and straight on the afm?

How old is this filter element?

 

[ImperfectSupra]

theres is a honeycomb and i do not know how to post pics on post. show me how to do that

 

[suprafanatic]

ok well the filter i have on it now is a few months old and thats the one the car likes... when it was totaly closed up i had a brand new and larger filter on it and it didn't like it at all.

 

[jetjock]

You need a minimum of one diameter ahead of the laminar flow screen for it to work properly. Otherwise unstable idle may result. The boost problem is probably unrelated.