skafia

My friend's B16A has (as far as I can see) a breather hose coming out of the valve cover and also a sensor (looks kinda like an o2 sensor) going into the intake tube. He's going to be purchasing an AEM CAI soon and from my experience the breather tube goes into the AEM... but what about the extra sensor on the stock arm? Thanks in advance!


[Modified by skafia, 5:49 PM 8/25/2002]

SpoolinSol

[QUOTE]My friend's B16A has (as far as I can see) a breather hose coming out of the valve cover and also a sensor (looks kinda like an o2 sensor) going into the intake tube. He's going to be purchasing an AEM CAI soon and from my experience the breather tube goes into the AEM... but what about the extra sensor on the stock arm? Thanks in advance!QUOTE]

Depending what AEM intake he gets, it should have a hole and a rubber grommet to be able to put the IAT (Intake Air Temperature) sensor in there...

Take care,

@= SpoolinSol

skafia

He's going to get the ITR CAI system and I believe that only has 1 hole for the breather... where would the "sensor" go?

deepnite

id check on that..96+ CAI s will have not only the stem for the breather but another with a rubber or plactic holder for the sensor

FifthGearOnline

when you go to install the intake, its very straight forward.....i wouldnt worry about it at all.....

once you start putting the pipes in you figure out exactly where things go

skafia

Here's a picture if it helps:



See the item noted as 1... i've never seen an AEM CAI have a spot for this sensor.

shawnhayes

It's an OBD-II type Intake Air Temperature sensor. The OBD-II cold air intakes have grommets for them.

Shawn

skafia

But his ECU is modified and he is now running OBD1. Can we ignore this sensor?

GripFactoR

you can leave it hanging...
wont affect performance.

shawnhayes

No. OBD-I's have intake air temperatures on the manifold. (on GSR B18C1's anyway). If the computer is expecting to see IAT, if you have it at all, you better have it in the right place. Without it, the computer will enrich/lean the mixture to match IAT at WOT, and if it's not in the intake stream, it might lean it out too much and cause detonation (even sounds bad doesn't it).

If you don't have a bung for the IAT, get one and put it in.

Shawn

skafia

hrm... well I don't know what to do now.



Well here's an AEM CAI system on a 6th gen Si. It appears that there's 2 spots.. one for the breather and the other for the IAT thingy.


[Modified by skafia, 10:39 AM 8/27/2002]