yah i agree with adam, i had mine wired open, and it lost all the low end and gained nothing up top



mike

 

I though it was better to wire them open?Oh well.I'm pulling the port sleeves out this time.Can't you just take the lower airpots off and wire the arms open?

 

i just removed my sleeves, so i guess they dont need to be wired open anymore, hehe

 

thanks guys!...i needed that help! i owe pengaru a beer



i will be using this for trouble shooting, mazdaspeed7...so dont worry about it! i am losing my cat...but keeping the air pump....as a recovering mustang owner, i know the value or driveabilty and torque :bigok:

 

Lol, Apex... Just a warning, you will lose SO much low end by removing the sleeves entirely. I wrote up a long explanation on rx7club, but the search feature is disabled, and its probably 20 pages back by now... But to make it quick, the runner ends in a dead end a few MM past the port. It makes for horrible flow into the port. I drove my car like that for too long before I wised up. Now I dont see how I even drove that car. The low end was pathetic.

 

still can't hurt to try, some people just want to tinker, nothin wrong with it i guess.



i'm leavin mine out for now in my build but thats just to get dyno #'s on the configuration, i plan on changing it after that.

 

im not worried about low end, i dont drive it too often so drivability isnt important to me, plus when i do drive it i always redline so power loss at the bottom isnt something i will need much of

 

i drive this car 30-50 miles everyday in stop and go traffic....i dont feel like spinning the motor up to 4000 rpm just to get her moving i just dont know if they are working or not...since every mechanic around me tells me to sell the car....

 

probably the easiest way to see if they work is smear some grease on the shafts of the actuators (cover the shaft lengthwise, make sure to at least get it close to the base)



go out for a spirited drive... pop hood and check the shafts, you will be able to see if the shafts have been pulled in by the actuators, the grease will be pushed up the shaft so there will be a clean/wiped area where the shaft has gone into the actuator.



credit goes to my buddy toast for this method, he told me it when i first bought my gxl.

 

thanks..i'll do that today if the rain subsides