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I took my car (NA manual JZA80 Supra) to the mechanics on Friday to get a clutch replacement.

Friday night I just drove it home, but on Saturday night I when to the beast club cruise (a good hour away from where I live). I was driving with mates so it was quite a spirited drive, nothing major or illegal, but it wasn't sedated driving either. That night I probably used a half tank of fuel and did over a 100k's.

I pop the hood today just to check the oil and notice that my air pod is completely disconnected. The piping that leads from the air pod to... I don't know what you call it, it's black plastic and leads into the engine block was just flapping loose. Even the black plastic piece that was connected to the block wasn't tightened.

So far the car still runs fine, but I'm wondering what potential damage have I done with my spirited drive last night? And besides never returning to that mechanic (do you even need to pull that piece off to do a clutch?) what can I do to at least prevent further damage?

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I took my car (NA manual JZA80 Supra) to the mechanics on Friday to get a clutch replacement.

Friday night I just drove it home, but on Saturday night I when to the beast club cruise (a good hour away from where I live). I was driving with mates so it was quite a spirited drive, nothing major or illegal, but it wasn't sedated driving either. That night I probably used a half tank of fuel and did over a 100k's.

I pop the hood today just to check the oil and notice that my air pod is completely disconnected. The piping that leads from the air pod to... I don't know what you call it, it's black plastic and leads into the engine block was just flapping loose. Even the black plastic piece that was connected to the block wasn't tightened.

So far the car still runs fine, but I'm wondering what potential damage have I done with my spirited drive last night? And besides never returning to that mechanic (do you even need to pull that piece off to do a clutch?) what can I do to at least prevent further damage?

Cheers.

Gonna do a full oil and filter change. However I do recall late last night the car was idling strangely. It would idle fine for the most part, but then occasionally dip right down to like 500rpm and nearly stall before quickly jumping back up again.

This whole ordeal has got me very worried.

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Got a good lawyer? HEKT1K prbbly knows one!

Less Seriously; takes pics of the unattached bits before restoring all to normal and check on performance & fuel consumpt'n.

Gear shift OK after clutch instal?

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If it was disconnected when you were driving I highly doubt ur car would run with no air going past the afm..

Its Pod Filter > Intake Pipe (with afm) > Plenum > Head btw not block :rofl:

if for some reason ur car was running and it was not connected im amazed, if it was it cud of sucked in something.. potential damage...

and no u dont needa take off ur pod filter and intake pipe for a clutch install

does it run fine again?

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and no u dont needa take off ur pod filter and intake pipe for a clutch install
You might, because the engine needs to tilt back to drop the gearbox.

But obviously if it has basically been running, then I doubt it was disconnected at the time of the "spirited drive".

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You might, because the engine needs to tilt back to drop the gearbox.

But obviously if it has basically been running, then I doubt it was disconnected at the time of the "spirited drive".

I think you misunderstand. Essentially, everything was connected except the airpod. Which was only being held in there by the brackets.

The air was still being drawn in further up via the open pipe which was just before the AFM.

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99% sure all jz based supra's are MAP sensored - including the older 1jz-gte's from the early twin turbos

so all you could have done is ingest some additional grit from the air into the motor causing some additional wear of the internals.

unless your ingested some large bits it should be negligable damage caused - if you are worried, best option would be a compression and leak down test to check on the motors health.

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