So I did the boost leak test and I hear a leak around my intake manifold. I think its near the TB, but it sounds like it may be comming from under it. I can feel it or find it. I don't really know what to do now, it sucks and my car is running like crap. My SES hasn't came on again and I want it to, just so it can point me in the right direction. God this sucks.

 

get a bottle of soapy water and spray it all around, wherever the leak is..........it will start blowing bubbles..

 

Yeah, I kinda tried that, but the bottle did more of a mist than a jet spray. And I think it may be under the manifold. I will try it with a better sprayer.

 

Its probably your throttle body seals. When under pressure, move the throttle and see if it gets louder.

 

Like move the butterfly? or the whole thing, because I grabed the boot and moved it pretty hard and nothing happend.

Wait a second, do you have to open the throttle to check the manifold? I was just thinking about it, but than when I first started doing the test, I had the bov line off and it was coming out of there and when I pluged it back in is when I heard the leak.

 

If its running like crap then u might have a loose vacum line or ur maf is loose check those out

 

yeah, its not running good. But its weird, I will start from the beginning

1) Converted back to the stock ecu and maf, had check light because neither o2 was hooked up, hooked them up, reset ecu, was still running funny, got another check light

2) P-0401-EGR low flow, found out it was a disconnected vaccum line, connected it reset ecu, still ran bad, new check light

3) P-1400-site said it was MDP sensor, Autozone said low input circuit egr, so I rewired the mdp sensor, reset ecu, now I'm here, running like crap.

Im going to do the leak test again, but for now I think Im going to raise my idle manually. Its so annoying because I have to keep half my foot on the gas and half on the brake or it will stall.

 

Guess its time for an ems (jk) r u cammed out because that could be a problem unless this problem just happened out of the blue maybe you should get re-tunned_goog luck

 

Yeah, see I just came back from the EMS, so it was running with the egr disconnected probably since I did my clutch. My guess is thats when it happened. So when I went back to the stock ecu is when this all started.

I do have cams, and just had it flashed before I found out the first code.

It is running a little better (one of those fixed itself kinda things), with the ac off, it won't die anymore, but it idles low 750-850. If the ac is on, it idles at like 500, than when it kicks off it goes up to like 1000, than its bouncy and will die.

What else I was thinking was, if it was tuned when the car had a problem, than the problem was fixed, would the idle be off because of that? Like the idle was compensating for the problem and now that its fixed, its all messed up. Does that sound right?

 

You need to plug the boost pipe that goes to the throttle body or youll most likely experience what you described

 

sounds about right just make sure you up ur idle screw, and you should'nt stall out as much but it sounds like a re-tune is definetly in order.

 

Im sorry, I don't really understand, are you saying I need to plug the leak?

Ok, Im going to talk to Jestr, see what he can do. Thanks for all the help.

 

No problem dude anytime