i put my Takeda intake on on friday. i hit some backroads today, and my cel turned on. so i turned it off.

 

Can't live scared forever homie.

Just find out where the "hot spots" for police activity are and AVOID THEM. I drive my car hard during the day occasionally and take it easy at nighttime....cause the police here sprout out like cockroaches at night. Seriously....they do.

 

Did you disconnect your battery before the install?

 

yea, thats why it threw me off when it came on. when i pulled the code it said i was running rich. Which i thought the factory ecu would recalibrate for that, but when i turned it off i romped in vtec a few times and it hasnt come back on yet. So idk.

 

Not sure if this will make a difference....but someone had told me to let the car sit for several minutes at idle before driving it after re-connecting the battery.

Did you do THAT?

 

Didn't do that. maybe tomorrow after work i should try that if the light comes back on. I drove around for 15 minutes or so after i installed it before i drove it kinda hard.

 

just an FYI...

i don't know about honda MAF, but- with many MAF cars, there are fuel trims. basically, the car has long term and short term fuel trims (STFT and LTFT). the car learns these based on a **** ton of input variables. well, when you change something OR reset the battery, especially intake pieces directly connected to the MAF (or, i should say, things with the MAF inside), you change these variables. the car then has to adjust on the fly and sort the different values again. this has been known to take many miles and can be delayed by driving hard before the calibrations have time to take place. cobb recommended

quote from Cobb - "One of the most important things you will want to do after you install a properly designed aftermarket
intake system is to reset the ECU and drive at very light loads for extended periods of time after the
installation."

i've attached what is a somewhat involved read, but it's worth it IMO

also, i'm curious- does that intake have airflow vanes inside near the MAF?

 

That was a good read. And no there are not any maf vanes in this intake. What do they do exactly? just smooth out the airflow for the maf sensor?

 

yeah, i assume they reduce turbulence and help the MAF measure reliably. AEM engineered a MAF housing in their si intakes with specifically engineered vanes for this reason. i know it was crucial in the mazda world. in fact, mazdaspeed had to recall their own intakes (made by aem). they pulled the ones they had left and aem engineered a vane insert. this was because several companies, cobb included, were successfully making intakes with properly designed MAF housings and having great success. the mazdaspeed units were causing issues.

 

Well it's been a few days with the flashpro on my car and i gotta say, I think the car is running better now than when I first flashed it. Maybe the ECU had to adjust to the different settings?

 

im sure of it.

 

Now that it's been reflashed, is the trademarked vtec crossover gone?

 

Oddly enough I found this in the slammed thread of all places:

 

My takeda did the same thing. AFter i reset it it never came back on agian.

 

For the most part yes. WOT you don't really notice the crossover. Normal driving around to the now 4500 vtec crossover you will hear it pop more than engage as it would normally.

 

well with the flashpro maf calibration for the injen sri, it popped at 4750, and it was still very noticeable. for first time people, its very strange hearing vtec engage so low, but when you do some city driving, you will find it useful to have it engage lower. now im running the map calibration for the stock intake, race header, and stock cat back, and it is hardly noticeable but you have to really listen for it. you really feel the crossover more than you can hear it changeover. but sometimes it will be loud enough to actually hear it engage, especialy next to a sidewalk or a wall. but damn it really pulls around 6k where the peak torque is lol it feels awesome doing a 2nd or 3rd gear pull.

 

If I dropped VTEC engagement to 4750, my fuel mileage would probably drop to about 16mpg

 

haha yea, no joke!

is there any one here that can actually test this?

 

Jay Leno...the person to discover a way to shut Kayne up.

 

***** *** was cryin on tv

 

Beyonce still won best video of the year, so I don't see what warrants what this fool did.

 

Better one:

 

^ lol I reset my ecu today after work and so far no more cel.

 

I'm on the injen cai/racehader map calibration and the car runs perfectly.

 

Did you let your car idle for 10 minutes after doing that?