Mikeboy
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I was having a look at it yesterday, and disconnected the big pipe from the airbox, (the main pipe that feeds the air to the engine ? whatever that's called ?)
Anyway, there was this pipe thing attached to the end shaped like a 'T', and it was full of like a wire honeycome material. And inside that was this little sensor of some sort with some wires going off somewhere.
Surely this is a Huuuuuuuuuuggggggggeeeeeee restriction? What does it do?? Does it just monitor how much oxygen is going into the engine???  .
If a bolt-on filter was fitted, does it fir onto this 'sensor' thing, or do you take the sensor thing off and connect it directly to the pipe ?
Cheers
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CorsaSXi16v
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Its an airmass meter and you need it to run the car
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Mikeboy
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oh right, cool thanks
Why is it full of thick mesh though ?
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CorsaSXi16v
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if you run a third party engine management since as mbe, dta, omex, etc etc you don't need a AMM, it uses a throttle pot instead.
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CorsaSXi16v
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err the mess is there to protect it, even though all air must run through the air filter anyway, just VXL being ultra carefull i'd imagine
[Edited on 23-05-2003 by CorsaSXi16v]
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Trotty
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You mean...
The bit just after the cone yeah.
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CorsaSXi16v
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whats that cone sound like? if you are running a cone I'd keep the mesh in place, Filtration of some cones is poor
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Trotty
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Thats the BFO cone from PVD - it sounsd sweet  
And yesh, I'd keep the mesh in place too, jsut in case.
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Mikeboy
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Yeh that's the bit .
So ok Cool , thanks every1 .
Trotty, how is your cone on ur SXi ? Do you have any sort of cold air feeds to it or does it work nicely without them?
I may possibly want to get a cone for mine, but all these stories on them creating odd random problems keeps putting me off !
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Trotty
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It's been fine with me mate, been on for 6 weeks now, and had the pre-release one on for about 2 months before that. Still haven't sorted a proper cold air feed out yet, but will do soon. Doesn't seem to hamper the performance yet though TBH.
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Mikeboy
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Ah that's good !
nice 1, cheers m8
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