Engine Bay Pics

[mh3kgt]

Nice clean up mod. Any functional loss doing the reduction?

No, not that I'm aware of, unless you're still using the stock boost solenoid, but you can pick up a cheap MBC or EBC to replace it when you do the vac reduction. This mod reallly cleans up the engine bay, and I was able to relocate my afpr and map sensor to the spot on the firewall where the solenoid rack used to be, which in turn freed up a lot of space around my battery/air filter area Also, this makes finding vacuum leaks much simpler since ther are 1/6th of the vacuum lines as stock lol I now have basically only 2 vacuum lines that Tee off to the bov/ebc and boost gauge/afpr

[jba3]

Nice clean up mod. Any functional loss doing the reduction?

Nope, none, unless you count EGR delete as a "loss". But it's almost never active anyway. Old, dirty pics of my engine bay with vac reduction, egr delete, cc delete, clutch assist delete (). Daily driver, 20k or so since those mods. Not a single problem.

[Austin@STM]

yup those were the first things i did to mine after i got, and 15000 miles later the car couldnt be any better without them

[mh3kgt]

What all needs to be done to delete that hardline over the intake bubble for the clutch assist? You delete the clutch vacuum tanks along with it correct? I've heard something about leaving a valve in-place or something?

[Austin@STM]

Theres 2 ways to remove it. All the tank is there for is to save vacuum when the car is off so its easy to pust the clutch in to start it.

1) The way i did it, just undo the line right next to the clutch master cylinder and pull it all out, then just plug the hole on the intake.
2) You can run a line directly to the intake manifold, or T it into the brake booster line so that when the car is running there is still the assist, but when it is off you have nothing.

[J_Parker]

What I did with mine was bend the hard line running along the back of the firewall and hook it into the brake booster, leaving the nipple on the back of the plenum plugged off, and have the other end that tees out of that one to the plenum, worked like a charm.

If my car was still in one piece I'd take a picture to explain my jamble of idiocy

[mh3kgt]

thanks. May try to do that this weekend! I hate that damn hardline.

[terrets]

Let me help you out bub. http://www.3si.org/forum/f35/vacuum-...5/#post5386684 I did this one Works fine

[vr4tune]

thanks. May try to do that this weekend! I hate that damn hardline.

The easiest way is to buy some reinforced vacuum line to replace the hard line. That is what i did and it works like factory and you don't see much of it. It only takes about 10 min. tops and about 3 feet of vacuum line.

[MightyMouse]

Before and almost after. I still have a good bit of work to do before she's done (fix my fuel lines, change out and get some new IC pipes, and finish making my custom upper plenum)

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