i have a 4th gen accord an i just installed a intake today. after driving it for about a minute, the check engine light comes on but the car still runs fine and sounds healthy. anyone have this problem after installing an intake on a 4th gen??

 

What code?

 

i haven't checked yet. how did u guys get around the sensor on the stock intake?? im concerned with a little black box and tubing by the right headlight that is from the stock intake.

 

anyone??? anybody kno the code for when a sensor goes bad after instaliing an intake??

 

As far as I know there isn't any sensors on the 4th gen....

When I installed my cold air all I did was take off all the factory housing and then cut the hole for the cold air and installed everything....I have never experienced a check engine light so....?

 

have u checked all the hoses including all the vacume hoses and the hose from the valve cover to the intake? Sometimes they come loose.

 

why don't you reset the ecu

 

Gooood point
reset that sucka(ecu) first..
sometime random cel pop up for no reason.
there's no sensor on 4th gen, At least for ex's
which i installed a intake on.
the black box is the resonator..it's junk.
you want to take that out of the way too..

 

on the resonator, there are vacuum lines comin off that?? won't harm anything will it?? oh, and i checked all the vacuum lines from the manifold and there on strong

 

uh, why dont you tell us what code it is... it takes a whole 3 seconds to find out.

no reason guessing all day when the ECU will lead us in the right direction.

 

I am sure it wont, it come with a hose on h22 prelude on my friend's 97 lude too.
i just yank it off, no cel
I mean try to reset it first, if it still come back, try to pull a code and see what's up

 

I have a 90 accord ex and have never had an engine light come on since I installed my intake so I would reset the ecu and see if that works. My friend says he had that problem and when he reset it on his 92 accord it fixed it.

 

whenever you have a CEL the first thing you do
is pull the code. Don't touch anything else untill you do that.

 

i have put a cold air in on all of my rides(91 a 92 and a 93 accord) and i have never got a code cause of it. i did get a O2 sensor code shortly after when i put it on my 91 but it is only the heater in the sensor.

 

i bet you guys $1,000,000.00 that he pulled of the map sensor on the t/b i did the samething on my 96 ex and I got a cel
i think the cell code was 07........... 7long flash's *............*...........*............*........... .*............*...........* oh yeah and about the resonator box take it off there is one hose that will go all the way back towards the firewall , grab the hose and follow it then when you get to the end pull if off and put a cap to close the hole up , if you got a aem or name brand intake they should have given you a small black cap with the kit.


[Modified by 96accordex, 1:53 PM 3/4/2003]