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DemonGT · Sep 20, 2020

I was removing my charcoal canister today and starting looking around at some of the stuff on the passenger side fender wondering what is what and
if i can remove any of it? I know behind the tower there is a vacuum cluster that is unhooked and hanging but i do not know what any of the other stuff is?
I have no EGR, smog or A/C.

DemonGT · Sep 20, 2020

Also, any one know what the copper colored thing is on the firewall?

Monkeybutt2000 · Sep 20, 2020

You can eliminate all that. However,if you have a heater you need the red vacumn line and the little tree near the weird copper thing.

Mustang5L5 · Sep 20, 2020

DemonGT said:
Also, any one know what the copper colored thing is on the firewall?

its meant to contact the hood and keep it at the same electrical potential as the rest of the body. You might get some RFI noise without it, especiallly on the AM band

General karthief · Sep 20, 2020

You need to get a repair manual to learn what you're dealing with, since you are eliminating the charcoal canister (do you know what it is even for?) I would say you're not really familiar with these cars.
No offense

slow84lx · Sep 20, 2020

You will eventually get tired of your garage smelling like a gas station and want to put that charcoal canister back in place.

DemonGT · Sep 21, 2020

Mustang5L5 said:
its meant to contact the hood and keep it at the same electrical potential as the rest of the body. You might get some RFI noise without it, especiallly on the AM band

Would this still be the case with a fiber glass hood?

DemonGT · Sep 21, 2020

General karthief said:
You need to get a repair manual to learn what you're dealing with, since you are eliminating the charcoal canister (do you know what it is even for?) I would say you're not really familiar with these cars.
No offense

Yes, i know what it does. Im switching over to a Pimpxs and ditching the stock ECU. And yes...your right i am new to foxbody's.

Mustang5L5 · Sep 21, 2020

DemonGT said:
Would this still be the case with a fiber glass hood?

Not as much, but possible. Unless you listen to a lot of AM radio, doubt you'd notice

General karthief · Sep 21, 2020

DemonGT said:
Yes, i know what it does. Im switching over to a Pimpxs and ditching the stock ECU. And yes...your right i am new to foxbody's.

It's got nothing to do with the ecu or installing a pimpxs, everything to do with gas tank vapors and venting fumes.

KRUISR · Sep 21, 2020

Agree with those above, keep the charcoal canister. Why would you want to remove it anyway? Weight savings? IF so, take a big dump before your drive. Should be about the same.

Rdub6 · Sep 21, 2020

If you don’t want to see it, reroute it and mount it on the inside of the fenderwell. But I would not remove it either, as the others have said!

Mustang5L5 · Sep 21, 2020

PimpXS won’t control it.

easy solution that the factory five cobra guys do. Get a sprinkler head from Home Depot. Connect the evap line to the head and fill it with activated charcoal. Mount it higher than the gas tank. You may need to replace the charcoal periodically, and if you roll over, gas will dump out of it. So don’t do that

Actually, if you can build a custom circuit on the PinpXS you can program an input/output to control it. I’m doing this with my MS3X but unsure if the pimp has the same capability

DemonGT · Sep 22, 2020

Thanks for all the good info guys, much appreciated.

7991LXnSHO · Sep 23, 2020

@Mustang5L5 do you know when the purge valve is open to the intake? Is it open all the time when the engine is running or just in a certain RPM range? The answer to that would make a work around easier. It would be also good to know for testing. Thanks.

General karthief · Sep 23, 2020

I believe it opens during part throttle cruise, that's what I've read in @jrichker checklists. There is a vent cap on the canister though.

Mustang5L5 · Sep 23, 2020

7991LXnSHO said:
@Mustang5L5 do you know when the purge valve is open to the intake? Is it open all the time when the engine is running or just in a certain RPM range? The answer to that would make a work around easier. It would be also good to know for testing. Thanks.

I don't know the specifics, but I believe it is at part throttle cruise only, and only when engine temp is above a certain threshhold.

If these values were known, it would be pretty easy to set it up in megasquirt

7991LXnSHO · Sep 23, 2020

@jrichker do you know when the charcoal evap valve is supposed to open and close?
Anyone else know for sure if our guru has not run across that?

Mustang5L5 said:
I don't know the specifics, but I believe it is at part throttle cruise only, and only when engine temp is above a certain threshhold.

If these values were known, it would be pretty easy to set it up in megasquirt

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clean it good before insertion

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wonder how much it would cost to ship you a pair

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