Hi all , today I decide to hit the highway like any other day doing
70 mph - 85 mph. Suddenly I hear a pop sound than my car slowly
de-accelerate . On gear 1 to 4 the car will not go more than 10 mph,
on 5th gear I was able to go 30 mph to get home . I checked all my
vacuum lines and they all were intact.

Not sure what went wrong. Can anyone give me a suggestion where to check?.

by the way this is a 2003 evo 8.

 

One of your intercooler pipes popped off. Most likely the UICP or LICP.

 

Yeh same happend to me. just blew a UICP, Sucked tho it was dark and raining so I couldn't find the faut and missed the state of origin which was on that night. Went back the next day and took me like 10min to fix.
Was a bit pissed off.

 

Thanks guys just found out my driverside intercooler pipe was slightly loose.
This is the second time this happen to me now , I got to find a way to secure
those hose and pipe.

 

^ are you using t-bolt clamps or just the original clamps?

 

use tbolt clamps and bead weld the end of the pipes then it will be harder for the hoses to blow o

 

I only used tbolt clamps, never happened to me again

 

Untill my new ones comes in I'll be using oem ones with zip tie for now , but yeah
I'll be giving those tbolt a try.

 

Same thing happened to me, bad thing was there was a civic right beside me, what a time for it to happen. My UICP coupler blow off. Now i carry extra clamps in the trunk.

 

I did this at the track fri, 28 psi off the 2-step and a loud POP, everyone thought I blew the motor. The worst thing was rollin down the track at 5 mph lol

 

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Zip ties? Now thats just ghetto.

When you put the new clamp on, spray some hair spray into the coupler ends.

 

Hair spray? Whats the purpose of that?

 

Makes it stick, to make it more secure. Less chance of it popping off.

 

Guess i will give it a try then. Does brand matter? JK.