I have a 2004 Accord EX-L 5-spd coupe with a AEM short ram intake. As I was driving home from school today, I was at a metered stop light for the highway. When the the light turned green and I started accelerating, my intake make a loud "pop" noise and my gas pedal immediately felt like it was stiffer or heavier. It still drove home fine; no lights turned on on the dash and idling was normal, but the car did seem to be a slight bit weaker in accelerating. I checked the intake when I got home and everything still seemed sound. I checked my tires too just to make sure that I didn't mistaken the pop sound for a popped tire.

Do any of you guys have any theories on what could have happened?

 

This is weird

 

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um...okay


check the tight down for the intake, most of the time if you jerk the motor(from braking, accleration or over rough road) the IM will pull the intake a tad and it could be just the aluminium tight down bracket hitting the frame/bolt

same idea for the CIA but most of the time it's the tube again the resonator box slot

 

thanks for your input, i tightened all of the clamps and resecured all the hoses. the car seems to accelerate fine now and the pop hasn't happened since.