5/6 port actuators
#1
Is it easy to tell right away if these things are opening or not? I keep reading about people having problems with them, is it a night and day thing like the car wont run right at all if they arent opening?
#2
There's always the grease trick but in my opinion, the ports could be opening on a pulse of exhaust pressure (on 86-88) or for other reasons on other years so the grease will be removed and wouldn't prove they're staying opened all the way while accelerating. I think the best way is to tie them open, if you don't see a big difference on hard acceleration, it most likely means they were opening by themself before you tied them open.
#4
If you want to keep them open, you can remove the actuators. But if you tie them open, it will lose some low end torque. You could even eliminate the port valves (sorry no weight reduction here) but you have to remove the intake manifold to do that, and would lose some more low end torque and gain some power on high RPM. It also have some negative effect on fuel economy when cruising. If you remove the port valves completely you'll have to figure out a way of pluging up the holes on the intake manifold.
#7
Originally Posted by Monkeytuner' date='May 17 2002, 10:56 PM
how do I find the ports to tie them open?
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