Modifying intake-do I need these?

So, resisting modding fever lasted exactly 2 weeks.

Actually, it started while doing routine maintenance (plug change, cleaning the K&N air filter, setting timing). While waiting for the filter to dry, I started looking at better ways to route the air flow tubing. PO installed a KN filtercharger system, with the filter connected to the stock tubing downstream from the MAF. I was looking at trying to run a straight tube from the end of the throttle body to the MAF, with my filter going into the fender at an angle (saw someone else's setup like this on a post on here).

My question: If I take out the stock section of tubing, I'm going to lose the connection for the intake air temp sensor and the PCV hose. Can I run without these? What problems will it cause, if any?

Thanks!

reddy351 said:

I fear that it's a bit too late for that. The bug has bitten and the venom is coursing through the veins, as we speak.

See you in a couple of years, when you are screaming mad and p**sed off because you are having problems with the nitrous fed twin turbo system you've been trying to sort out for over a year. "Maybe I'll go back to N/A. I'm SICK of this damned car!" you'll be saying.

This is how it starts.

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Not going there! Honest! I've already got one of those projects--the 67. That's what got me to buy the 95 in the first place. I just couldn't stand another summer with the vert up on jackstands, sitting behind the wheel on a milk crate making "vroom, vroom" noises.

So, I put it back together the way it was set up. I don't think this "filtercharger" setup is all that great, since it's sucking hot air from the engine compartment. But, it's a daily driver, and I don't need it to reach optimum performance. What I got now is more than enough to get me in trouble.

Took it for the mandatory test drive Saturday night after the tuneup was complete. Up the highway, nothing too radical, after two exits, I turned around and headed home, (bet you can see where this one's going...). Hit that isolated stretch where the opposite direction is obscured by trees, and got on it. She's running much better now (not that she was running all that bad to begin with!).

As I'm getting close to my exit, the two sides come back together, but we'd just had a day and a half of solid rain, so no cop's gonna jump the median. Then I see the police Expedition!

So I went home through the neighborhoods, put it in the garage, and let it rest for a day or two...

I'm sure he'll have forgotten about me by the commute tomorrow morning, right? I mean, how many yellow GT verts are there in Alaska?

BlackVert said:

so ... i was just looking at your sig and thinking about a few months ago when you bought the 95 ... how's the "not going there" thing working out?

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It's going reasonably well. I did take the cobra rims off and put my TTIIs on. Oh, yeah, I did that when I swapped the springs, cuz I was tired of catching so much grief on here about the factory lift kit. I found a set of springs on C-list for cheap, and put those on. After plowing all the gravel out of my driveway, I pulled them back off, and ordered a set of Pro-kits. Got the MM cc kit while I was at it.

Ripped out the A/C and smog one weekend.

Waiting until winter to change rear axle bearings--found those needed to be replaced when I was having my alignment done after re-doing the front end. Thinking about a 3.73 swap while I'm at that!

So, believe it or not, that's doing well at "not going there"! Cuz there's a new 8.8 sitting on my workbench, ready to go under the 67, once I finish seam-sealing the body. Then, I've got to install the Cobra brakes on all 4 corners, and find another set of wheels and tires, cuz I stole the TTIIs and put them on the 95!