hose going to airbox?

[twofourzeroSX]

Hey, i know this is going to sound stupid, but i dont have a full manuel so i cant look this up myself... what is the hose that is attatched to the side of the airbox on a ka24de in the 93 coupe? i just put a round filter on that my cousin gave me and i want to make sure that the hose doesnt really need to be hooked up to a source. Do i need to still filter it somehow??

Thanks

[compression]

That hose supplies fresh filtered air to your flux-capacitor. You cannot time travel without it, I would hook it back up.-Aaron

[twofourzeroSX]

thanks..im thinking that im going to find a way of filtering it from anouther source...like using a mini filter at the end of the hose. i didnt disconnect the hose or anything, but its just not hooked up to any filtered air source.

[navysnail]

put a breather on the hose you removed, and plug the hole in the side of the airbox

[twofourzeroSX]

just so i know..what is a flux-capasitor???????????????????

[niznos]

It is the thing that blinks behind the driver's head that allows for time travle in Back to the Future movies. You don't have a Delorian so don't worry about it.

Seriously now, it is the AIV. Run a search on this forum and you'll see what the deal is on it. It can be removed altogether with no ill effects. In fact, it's so pointless that some/ all S14's didn't come with it at all.

Here's a full manual: http://www.zeroyon.com/techfil...4.zip

[gumby]

theres a thread covering this in the nissan articles forum

[tonynalli]

it is the cold start feture. if you follow the metal piping it goes to the back of the engine, it is used to put hot air into the intake when it is cold outisde. i put a cone fliter on my car but i cut a hole in the top of it and routed the piping to the top of the filter.

[ricebike]

Quote »it is the cold start feture. if you follow the metal piping it goes to the back of the engine, it is used to put hot air into the intake when it is cold outisde.[/quote]

hmm, tony, that doesn't sound right... the cold start feature has the MAF meter to tell how cold the incoming air is; but car's in open-mode anyways <running a bit rich> until the o2 sensor is heated up...

I think this is the dreaded AIV hose, that allows "filtered" air to goto the exhaust system to help burn HCs & when the reed valve fails, it belches exhaust fumes/water vapor to go into the intake...not good.