I just got the Top Fuel intake, carbon fiber canister blahblahblah I paid 50 bux for it and it's in great shape with a new filter. I would rather spend 50 on that than purchase a new filter plus have a heavy ass box I could hide a body in.

My question is about the vacuum lines.. I see there are many, and I see some people remove the metal vacuum connector??? from their intake etc.

What is the correct way to do it. This intake I have only has a part for the crank case and thats it.

 

There should be a large nipple to connect the large hose that comes from the air pump as well... Maybe have a nipple welded onto the pipe?

 

Just disconnect the rubber hose from the valve cover and intake and leave the metal piece there. Then just run a new hose from the valve cover to the intake.

 

I think it looks really sloppy if you leave the metal part there. Plus the sensor that is mounted on the airbox would just hang there in plain sight if you did it that way. What I did is just went to Autozone and got like 8ft of normal vacuum hose for a couple bucks, cut it in half, then run the 2 lines from where the metal bracket had the 2 vacuum lines under the fuel rail cover, and run them to the sensor that was on the airbox. I also relocated my sensor to below the A/C lines so you can't see it, just zip tied it on and it's like it's not even there really. Then just run the big hose from the intake to the valve cover and you're done.

 

Well I took the metal piece out and ran everything as I should. I did have a leak from the coolant where it goes from the manifold to the throttle body, but I fixed that.. Now my heat only gets warm while driving, when I'm at a stop its cool again.......

 

Did you check your coolant level?

 

Coolant level is alright, I put some in the over flow tank also.

Heat on + driving = heat

Heat on + stop = no heat

The only two things I did last night/yesterday were take the valvecover off and repaint it, and did the intake and rerouted that coolant hose from the manifold to the throttle body - where it then leaked from my house to a garage which was 4 minutes away. It wasn't gushing, but it was coming out.. Now I can't figure this out.