How Close Can The Afm Be To The Turbo?

[Kaido_RR]

Hey,

I need to drive my car down to the workshop (about 15-20mins) to get an intake pipe made up, is it ok to drive the car if i have the afm connected directly to the turbo inlet?

Cheers

Edited March 9, 2010 by Kaido_RR

[R31Nismoid]

I highly doubt it will work.

When i had a hole in my cooler piping after the AFM, before turbo inlet (about the size of a 50c coin), the car ran like a bag of shit and eventually just gave up lol.

[wlspn]

R31 Nismoid, sorry but how is that at all relevant? First of all I assume you mean intake pipe between AFM & turbo, not cooler pipe? & you are talking about an air leak, where this guy is talking about running his AFM directly in front of the turbo, presumably sealed by a silicon, etc join.. e.g pod onto AFM onto turbo using only joins, no pipes. Correct me if I'm missing something

Kaido RR, I have heard it CAN cause problems but if its easy enough try it for yourself.

If the car idles fine I would drive it there but stay off boost & keep the revs low just in case.

Worst case it should run rich so shouldn't damage anything...

[R31Nismoid]

No idea...

Totally read that wrong...

Interesting to see if it would work, reverb over the AFM does have some rather nasty effects (ie car just not driving)

If it idles fine im not sure how that could be deemed to be working ok however, as once the turbo spins up and moves air - this is when the turbulence will rise.

[SABBAi]

reverb over the afm usually occurs with flutter/not having any bov. having an atmo bov will reduce the chances of this happening. If it's a stock setup, or uses a stock bpv, then you will have issues with idle. At idle the stock valves open.

Aftermarket vavles usually have a firmer valv eseat pressure, causing low rpm flutter. This could also cause issues.

My money is on the car stalling or stubbling during gear shifts.

[Guilt-Toy]

yes it will work for a quick drive. depends how big the turbo is to how much problems you will have. just dont close the throttle quickly unless you have to and it should be okay, if you see that your at a set of lights and the car is hunting up and down just rest your foot on the accelerator and bring the revs up to 2000rpm then let it go back down to idle really slowly and it should begin to idle okay.

[Kaido_RR]

yes it will work for a quick drive. depends how big the turbo is to how much problems you will have. just dont close the throttle quickly unless you have to and it should be okay, if you see that your at a set of lights and the car is hunting up and down just rest your foot on the accelerator and bring the revs up to 2000rpm then let it go back down to idle really slowly and it should begin to idle okay.

thanks for that Guilt-toy =)