well lastnight I brought an AEM CAI to a friend who SAID he knew what he was doing. I think I was wrong...first of all it took him almost 3 hours to put it in. I've heard that its easy and quick or whatever. After we got it in...I start my car up, gave it gas......the RPMs decides to stay @ 2500 RPM . So then he starts messin with my throttle body (I was sketchy about this) Then he got it to idle down, but too low where it stalled a couple of times. So then it stayed @ 500RPM . On my way home it started to go back up but its around 1500RPM. Does anyone have any advice? Please help me out . I heard that I need to restart my ECU?? Thanks so much
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Oh yeah i dont know if this matters, he didnt disconnect the battery like the instructions said to??

 

i would try to pull the ecu fuse and let it reset.

 

tell him to adjust the throttle back to normal.

 

tell him to stop learning on other people's cars... then go to someone who knows how to do things with the car....

cant really blame him completely. youre the one who went to him in the first place.

Nothing's free in life.

 

i never knew that installing a CAI could be that much problems...i actually learned how to install right off AEM's instructions...really wasn't nothing big at all. tell him to put the throttle back to where it was and make sure all the vacuum hoses that were on the stock intake are also on the new one. then **** him up for not knowing what he wuz doing.

 

LOL. I NEVER said it was his fault. If you read it it says"He said he knew what he was doing, but I guess I was wrong" Meaning=He didnt know what he was doing. I'm not pointing fingers at anyone. I'm asking for help to fix this problem, I'm not asking whos fault it was. Thank you to the ones who replied with helpful advice
No ****, I know nothing in lifes for free, moneys not the issue. Re-read


Modified by Grlsb18c12slow at 9:59 AM 4/30/2004

 

make sure you have clearence of all the piping you've just put in and adjust the TB to it's origional position

 

like every one say.. ajust the idle back to where it was b4.. i dont see how he screwed up putting a cai on.. its a bolt on .. anyways do that pull the fuse out thats in the engine bay for about 10 mins and put it back in let the car idle for like 5 mins.

 

yea weird, i installed mine off the AEM instructions.can't really see where to go wrong, just rip out the stock air box and tubing, and put on the CAI

oh well..good luck with that

 

Yeah everyone tells me that its not hard, but i guess it was for him. LOL, lesson learned. Thank you guys for the help

 

Yes, you should reset your ecu after you install an intake. Set your throtle body back to normal and reset the ecu.

 

if you want come up to my house, i'll take a look and figure out whats wrong with it.

 

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lol leg humpin much are ya? like she would drive from colorado to connecticut.

Maybe while he was installing the CAI he accidentally unplugged one of the sensors on or around the throttle body, or maybe even damaged something.

 

I GET THE COOKIE!!! !!! !!!

It's not the ECU...it's you forgot to connect something. Probably the little green plug near the distributor, but it could be any host of things. Check ALL of your various plugs/sensors, and return the idle screw to it's original upright position for landing...


edit: Patrick cheated and was on a Starbucks caffeine binge...beat me to it.

 

riiiiiiiiiiight actually I'm on leave of abscense right now cuz I had to finish school, and will be transferring back to my old store where I worked last summer... so since I can't get it for free, I just don't drink it.

 

put back stock airbox and adjust back the idle screw, then install the intake, reset ecu. and then it should be fine. And check all connections, sensors, and hoses.

 

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shoulda followed instructions if you/he didnt know what was going on. plus you get to see my car on the instructions

 

You do know that when the car is 'cold' and you first start it up it's going to idle a little higher at first?

My car idles at 2.5k RPMs like the first minute then slowly drops down to 1000. That's if I hadn't drivin it for 5+ hours.

 

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She said even after she drove it home it was still idling badly so it's not that.

It has to be a loose vacuum hose or sensor plug was put on i the wrong place. There are two sensors on the TB. The plugs are identical so I'm betting he plugged in the wrong sensors wires. So unplug them and switch them.

Then adjust the throttle back to normal.

Another thing that would effect idle is the Idle Air Control Valve. Check out this article on erratic idle and how to fix it:
http://www.hondaswap.com/forum...29790

Good luck. Let me know if yo have any other questions or need more help.

 

Grab the directions. Get your hands a bit dirty and learn how to do it. You'll have an intake and better experience and plus it feels better when you do things yourself.

Once you fix it. Show that dude how its done and show him what he did wrong so he doesn't screw anyone else over. Then, smack him right across his chops for lying and ******* up your car.

I can't believe someone could mess up an intake install. My brother has done a thing with cars in his life and when he got his car the first thing he did was install a intake (took him 5-6 minutes). He didn't even know where the filter was, once I showed him he took off, I let him learn and just watched.

Cliff notes: Pop your hood and do it yourself. Its very easy, follow the instructions or you can get a how do offline.

o ya....goodluck. atleast you learned not to trust that bastard.

 

same here, I had no Idea what I was doing with cars, but I decided to try putting in the AEM

it took a little while... but no problems

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Grlsb18c12slow &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">well lastnight I brought an AEM CAI to a friend who SAID he knew what he was doing. I think I was wrong...first of all it took him almost 3 hours to put it in. I've heard that its easy and quick or whatever. After we got it in...I start my car up, gave it gas......the RPMs decides to stay @ 2500 RPM . So then he starts messin with my throttle body (I was sketchy about this) Then he got it to idle down, but too low where it stalled a couple of times. So then it stayed @ 500RPM . On my way home it started to go back up but its around 1500RPM. Does anyone have any advice? Please help me out . I heard that I need to restart my ECU?? Thanks so much
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Sounds like they messed up one of the sensors, which messed up the idle and tried to compensate for it with the TB stop screw.

NEVER TOUCH the tb stop screw, if he did, your screwed. Alway use the the bypass screw on the manifold.

 

Check your vacuum lines, when I installed mine, i moved one out of the way, and tucked it over the IAT sensor, and it got crimped...i forgot to take it off, and i got a check engine light and the car was running a little funny...i put the vac line back where its supposed to go, CEL off, car ran normal

 

when installing a new in-take system ,
on the tube , one hose is going to the engine and a sensor is installed on the tube

from the image , the yellow hose is the one that goes to engine
and the black thing with the green and red/orange wires is the sensor
(note: in some cases you need to extend those wires to get the sensor in place (i did...) )

to reset the ECU ... two ways :
remove the NEGATIVE plug of the battery for 10 minutes and then start the car for like 5-7 minutes (note: DO NOT PRESS the accellarator petal)

or

from the under-hood fuse box , remove the 7.5 amps (for american domestic cars ) fuse , or the 10 amps fuse for canadian and JDM . for 10 secs , put it back and again start the car for 5-7 minutes .

hope this helps

installing a new in-take system takes like 15-30 minutes max is you know what u r doing

 

damn bro sounds like he didn't kno what he was doing... this is a first i've heard of RPMs going wrong for after a CAI install. whatever you do don't let him change your oil!!!