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Old 02-27-2007, 11:36 AM
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whats the latest news on this?
 
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Old 02-27-2007, 03:46 PM
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this happened to me to if u put ur car in "N" from higher speeds, it will just turn off.. i was like whats up with my power steering? so i just keep it in gear when i slow down getting off the freeway
 
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Old 02-27-2007, 03:47 PM
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and yes i do have an injen on it
 
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Old 02-27-2007, 03:51 PM
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Again, I had a Injen Cold Air Intake. This happened to me 3 different times. I had a 5AT. One time I was on the freeway doing 60-70 MPH and all of a sudden the car just completely shuts off in drive, every single light on the dash turned on. Lucky for me, it was late at night and not many cars were on the freeway. Again, this happened to me when I was coming off an exit on a busy street, lucky no one hit me from behind. Again, it happened another time as well. I was lucky all 3 times but it is def. a bad situation. It was all due to the Cold Air Intake, it will happen at random times, very random times. There have been numerous threads about this same situation happening to many others with the Stillen and Injen Cold Air Intake's.
 

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Old 02-27-2007, 04:16 PM
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wow, this makes me nervous. Is AEM, Injen and the manufactures Liable for this, this shouldn't be normal. It's setting up a death trap.
 
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Old 02-27-2007, 04:28 PM
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Question. How can you guys justify a CAI like that when:
1) It clearly jumbles the maf reading to make the car stall
2) Can easily drink up a few quarts of water to paper weight your VQ
3) Hasn't shown to really do much of anything hp-wise vs stock or sheilded cone types (ie.. stillen)

How are you guys justifying the risk/reward? Just for the sound? IMHO a bad trade.
 
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Old 02-27-2007, 04:40 PM
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I bought the intake and exhaust for a good deal because my buddy wanted to go back to stock, I had no prior knowledge there wasn't much HP gains and it was all sound. I wouldn't have gotten an intake if that was the case.

Back to the fact though, Manufactures shouldn't make Intakes that will **** up our cars, yes the water induction is an issue, but if that didn't happend and the car was still stalling then it's not our faults.
 
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Old 02-27-2007, 05:39 PM
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why does it do this anyways? is there any way to stop this from happening
 
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Old 02-27-2007, 05:42 PM
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I don't think I've read of anyone using a stock or cone style having this problem.

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Back to the fact though, Manufactures shouldn't make Intakes that will **** up our cars, yes the water induction is an issue, but if that didn't happend and the car was still stalling then it's not our faults.
 
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Old 02-27-2007, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Flavius
this happened to me to if u put ur car in "N" from higher speeds, it will just turn off.. i was like whats up with my power steering? so i just keep it in gear when i slow down getting off the freeway

why on earth would youput your car in "N" from a higher speed?
 
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Old 02-27-2007, 06:39 PM
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what if you have a Z-Tube and JWT popcharger???
 
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Old 02-27-2007, 07:02 PM
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get it checked out dude! soo many speculations, the whole CAI is just a possibility.. it could be anything else.. report back as to what the problem was..
 
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Old 03-01-2007, 11:54 AM
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If there's not CEL, it's going to be very difficult to "check out". Exactly what would he be looking for?

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get it checked out dude! soo many speculations, the whole CAI is just a possibility.. it could be anything else.. report back as to what the problem was..
 
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Old 03-01-2007, 11:59 AM
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CAI stalling

If you read the last page of the Injen install manual, it says just to cut out a small piece of that foam block thing in the bumper. if u take that whole thing out, it will cause the car to stall out.
 
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Old 03-01-2007, 11:33 PM
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Your CAI is loose and your Mass Air Flow doesnt read no air coming in so its shuts off the engine.
 


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