Hey I am in the process of doing a 3.5 swap since my 3.0 with 163,000 miles started to knock after years of racing and nitrous. Now for a last year or more I have hit it with 100shot maybe 30-40times and though the motor is old and just gave up but oh no not the mighty VQ.

So last night I pulled the mevi off cause I did not want to take a chance that he might get messed up during the swap and what do I find in my lower intake and heads but the butterfly flaps from the mevi. So you know where the rod and screws are, I took all the flaps out and it seems the rod that they turn on broke into peices two of the flaps still had the screws and part of the rod still attached thank god for locktitie but one did not and there was only a flap

the point of the story every year or so recheck your mevi or you can end up doing a 3.5 swap like me but the good thing is the nitrous did not take out the motor so I'll be spraying my azz off again real soon

 

 

Usually the screws fall out, but the whole rod broke? That's a new one.

 

Damn....pretty interesting. Happy you picked it out quickly.

 

Now thats crazy.

 

I had 2 screws come out earlier, thankfully i was lucky and just happened to check it and they were sitting atop another butterfly valve and didnt fall in. But ya, the rod breaking is crazy. maybe the one valve was stuck and twisted on the rod everytime it opened.

 

wow now thats impressive. more of a reason to do a 00vi swap instead

 

Hmm going out to the garage right now.

 

True that. Thats why I'm going with an 00VI. It even looks better, but lacks the power of the MEVI. Oh well.

 

i think you're confused.

 

Never mind. The MEVI does look better. But do you get more power from the 00VI or MEVI?

 

00vi brotha

 

Hm so it's either power or looks. I think I'll go with power. 00VI!

 

^^ but then again the 00vi is much harder to install then the mevi. so both has its up and downs.



best of luck to you man. and i dont blame you for going out and looking

 

Jesus now I'm going more towards the MEVI.

 

One of my butterflies let go. The previous owner had the screws welded but apparently that wasnt enough. I didnt find part of the screw that broke. Oh well, at least my motor still runs fine.

 

I would just gut the mevi if I was you since you have your tied open anyway
it will be like having a 3.0 kinetic or ssim intake

I going to take a pic of the other 2 buterflys with the screws and part of the rod still attached and post them later

 

^^^Damm tom i didn't know your motor went i remember congratulating you last time i was out on how clean and stealthy it looked damm lol but its 3.5 time i guess

 

I was going to have my screws welded down but was told theres more of a risk of the tack welds vibrating loose than the screws coming out.

 

Here is a new pic of the other 2 butterfly flaps as you can see the only part of the rod left is the peice the screws went into

 

thanks but I promise the 3.5 will look the same, I already polished the timming cover and intake

 

Wow, that sucks...it just goes to show how strong the VQs can be.

GL with the 3.5 man.

 

When I removed my MEVI to sell it a couple years back a couple of the flaps were IN THE INTAKE PORTS! Everyone should just weld them (or JB weld) them on from now on.

 

in my case this would not help cause the rod broke and the screws were still in the butterfly's

it was the rod peice's that took out the motor

 

thanks man, the 3.5 is installed and running as of yesterday, I just need to make a bracket for the throttle cable but I am mui consido and going to sleep

 

im pretty sure that was the result of a nitrous backfire!!!!

 

if so the backfire was soo small I did not even notice

 

I think the 00VI looks better personally, at least it will under my hood, I'm going with a red/black look

 

Congrats man! Cant wait to see some track times.

 

"mui consido??"
are you trying to say really tired? lol

i need to check my valves one day, my mevi ticks a little so im assuming its just a sound coming from the valves rattling or something

 

daym, that sucks.....but +100000 on spraying it

 

yeah thats how sleeply I was

 

Are screws becoming loose a common problem? I'm not gona MEVI it's something I have to take apart every 10k to check on. That would annoy the crap out of me.

 

just use locktite and you should be fine, I had mine on for 2 years and the screws did not come out even after the rod broke

but would still pop the cover off which is only like 10 bolts and check every year or so

 

I check mine every year or so. Never had any screws loosen. What I do is get a marker and mark the screws in relation to the plate so you can easly see if they have loosened or not.

 

Well I tore down the motor today and found no nitrous related damage it all came from the mevi rod

Oh by the way I found the missing mevi rod in was on top of the piston