Who has a pod filter on the forester

[Guest]

Who has a pod filter on the forester?

[Guest]

Had one, removed it when I did the STi upgrades. Damn noisy thing. Was an A'Pexi brand one so was good quality and came with a mounting bracket so it didnt wobble the AFM around. Didn't make any noticeable difference in power but it was breathing straight out of the engine bay. Never got around to making a cold air box for it.

It now lives in CMPLSV's old Forester I believe.

[WRXONP]

LOL pods are noisy...cool if u like the spool sound...

BUT make sure u dont leave ur AFM wobbling around...will defonatly shorten the AFMs life

[uwantsumbeef]

iv had two different ones in my old SF5, first was a HKS one with the proper mounting brackets, super loud, got annoying after a while. It didnt fit with my front mount pipes so got a Simota branded one. like the guy before i never got around to making a box, had good intentions but im just lazy. Didnt notice any power difference at all . .

[Guest]

would ur engine stop if it sucks in hot air while ur not moving

[WRXONP]

it wont stop....

but high intake air temperature causes detonation

[Ninja8)]

 WRXONP said:

it wont stop....

but high intake air temperature causes detonation

damn he beat me to it +1 on above

[WRXONP]

i was fast

[Guest]

hmm well it stoped and then woouldnt turn on for bout 2 mins

what u guys reakon loll

[WRXONP]

loose batery terminal? dodgy conection somewhere? it run sweet as after the 2 mins?

have u checked fault codes

[Guest]

well it runs sweet and its just the knock sensor code thats been there for ages lol

[WRXONP]

u might wana fix the knock sensor fault or ull be buying a new engine or a rebuild very important sensor

[Ninja8)]

reset ecu and see if it goes away?? do forestors run intake air temp sensors??

[WRXONP]

they may do...not sure...but if it has one and its just dangling in the engine bay from a "churr bro" pod filter install then that could be causing problems

[Ninja8)]

Yeah..its the only thing i can think of. A pod filter wouldnt make a car die/stall. well not that ive come across yet anyway :-\

[WRXONP]

only a theory but if the temp sensor was dangling down near the head / exhaust temperature area then itd go high and maybe its a safety that it does turn off when intake temp is super high???

we needa know if it has a temp sensor or not lol

my mate had a v4 i think it was and it did have a air temp sensor which was in the air box standard...someone did the mean "churr bro" pod install and left it dangling in the engine bay... i drilled a hole in the kneck of the pod filter and put the temp sensor in there and it ran alot better and alot better fuel economy

just a idea anyway

[Pappu1]

Stopped at lights it Wud be very hard to get the engine to die due to hot air etc

It could b something else

Fuel pump perhaps

[LAZLO]

leaking blow valve causing shit idle can stall your car too,done it to me,bad thing was i had a flat battery so i was at the front of the lights holing up traffic at 4.30pm lol lucky my lil brother followed me,jumped it got around the corner and died again,got home closed my blow valve off and it never happened again