Stupid Plastic Intake

gtstangau

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• Mar 22, 2008

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I went to the track last night and on my very first run about halfway down the track it started getting sidways at the top of the track an I looked in the mirror an it was pooring out smoke. I got it back to the pits an popped the hood with it pouring out smoke an coolant was everywhere, apparently it popped a heater hose off the back of the intake manifold with a piece of the intake still attached. Has anybody else had that happen, what would make it do that?

 

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Jbauer

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• Mar 22, 2008

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Ahaa- that sucks but thats stupid funny. I was at the track last night and the GTO i was racing went sideways in fourth gear, and bout' near hit the wall- i saw him get shaky then i slowed down as fast as i could, he got in my lane, hanged a 180, then a 90 back into his lane and another 180 as he stopped in the middle of the lanes. I was like WTfff- i think he was running to low a tire pressure on slicks and when the speed caught up with him he lost traction.

Anywayzz- it's time for some JB weld hehe.
I think i have heard of a heater hose coming off with the nipple attatched on plastic manifolds before.

 

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Dragstr05

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• Mar 22, 2008

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Sounds like a good time to upgrade...Trick Flow maybe?

 

gtstangau

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• Mar 23, 2008

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Yeah looks like it's gona be a couple days before I can get it running again, aparently nobody in town stocks intake manifold gaskets an it's gona take like 4 days to get them. My buddy has an extra PI intake sitting at his house off of an 03 cop car, so we are gona slap that on there so I can get off fairly cheap with just some gaskets!

 

joshjwc9

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• Mar 23, 2008

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gtstangau said:

Yeah looks like it's gona be a couple days before I can get it running again, aparently nobody in town stocks intake manifold gaskets an it's gona take like 4 days to get them. My buddy has an extra PI intake sitting at his house off of an 03 cop car, so we are gona slap that on there so I can get off fairly cheap with just some gaskets!

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The local ford dealer(s) dont have one?

 

SonicStangGT

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Mar 23, 2008

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• Mar 23, 2008

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I didnt have that problem, but I did blow a hole in the very back from a nitrous backfire. Sounded like a grenade went off at the end of track. Still run a 8 flat in 1/8 mile.

 

gtstangau

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• Mar 24, 2008

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joshjwc9 said:

The local ford dealer(s) dont have one?

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Nope they had to order them, it just wasn't my day.

 

screamin gt

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• Mar 24, 2008

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gtstangau said:

Nope they had to order them, it just wasn't my day.

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I had a hard time getting those too for some reason. I ended up finding a local shop that specialized mainly in gaskets, but it took me a half day of searching everyone in the area.

 

SonicStangGT

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• Mar 25, 2008

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I got mine from Oreily's in 2 days if there is one where you are.

 

gtstangau

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• Mar 26, 2008

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Ok so I got my gaskets in from O'riely yesterday and put the new intake on after work. We got everything put together an started it up, now it's got a slight miss. I double checked all the coil and injector connections an they were all tight so I don't know what it is. I think I either have a dead coil or some coolant still down in the spark plug or something? Anyways it was late so I will just pull it in at work today an check it out.