WTF have i done? 7m AFM...fitted a pod...now wont run.....

[JustCallMeOrlando]

Damn stupid delay between posts...

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hmmm, apparently its flap - so there goes that thoery

[TA-022]

someone tell him 7Ms are a real mans motor... hence they have anti-rice-deterent immobilisers.

rice it up at your own risk ..lol

[Aust162]

air intake leak between throttle body piping and afm? did you remove this pipe or loosen the clamps during the installation? check you redid the hose clamps tight.

[EldarO]

nah, if your car idles fine, but stalls, it means the AFM isnt plugged in/working properly.

check continuity between the "hole side" (the pins) of the plug and the wires on the back, to make sure you havent snapped one of the wires off inside.

Eldar.O.

[RObErT_RaTh]

I swapped from my old crappy filter and airbox to a pod and I had to lean out the mix because my car was running really rich. Fixed my problem but I don't know if it will help you.

[Cuzzo]

Another suggestion. If you reset the ecu/disconnect battery for a little while, Would that get the ecu to learn new settings then recognise the unrestrictioness(new word) of the new inlet.

[Billzilla]

you reckon youre seriously introduce such destructive turbulence bill with a simple filter swap?

Yep.
On my Sprinter, with the Alezza 3SGE in it, it's jsut driveable with the pod filter on. If I take it off, the car is almost totally undriveable - The difference is turbulent airflow over the hotwire sensor.
This is how the idea of getting a bunch of drinking straws to make an airflow straightening matrix was formed, and after fitting that to the inlet the car drove perfectly.



Erm and yes, I'm going to come up with a more elegant and permanent solution soon.

[RAd28]

Yep.
On my Sprinter, with the Alezza 3SGE in it, it's jsut driveable with the pod filter on. If I take it off, the car is almost totally undriveable - The difference is turbulent airflow over the hotwire sensor.
This is how the idea of getting a bunch of drinking straws to make an airflow straightening matrix was formed, and after fitting that to the inlet the car drove perfectly.



Erm and yes, I'm going to come up with a more elegant and permanent solution soon.

longer (straight) inlet

IN05NT - i'd be inclined to suggest resetting the ECU too... atleast then you konw you haven't got something messed up along the way.. my bike did the same thing, removed the air box for a set of pod filters, and it ran like shit up high... but that's carby so no help to you here

[Lambolica]

You have a BHG... End of story...

This happened on a car I had years ago.... I swapped AFM and had issues, swapped back still had issues, found that i had split the intake pipe in a hard to see location. Might be worth investigating,

Otherwise all above points sound valid. (including TA-022's)

Cheers
Simon

[RObErT_RaTh]

getting a bunch of drinking straws to make an airflow straightening matrix

Dude that's fkn hilarious But he has flap not hotwire so will it do anything for him?

[brett_celicacoupe]

im guessing you checked for error codes already?

check all the wires havent fallen out of the plug.

check the AFM and anything around that region

[kingmick]

this is like a cave, some great echo's

[kingmick]

hey bill, and this is a joke!!
when you sell the sprinter, you can say in the ad! "if you like pina colada's or cocktails, have i got the sprinter for you" lol

[Pube]

You could have broken the contacts within the air flow meter when you unplugged and reconnected the plug. A similar situation happened to me when Sideshow first wired up my 1ggte corona. It wouldnd idle and kept on stalling. He popped open the black cap on the air flow meter and found the contacts internally that go from the plug to the circuit board had come adrift. He simply soldered them back to the circuit board and it solved the problem.