For those with the OSCAI please read!!!
05-25-2001, 07:03 AM
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For those with the OSCAI, Yesterday while driving my car started to make a horrible pinging noise. The symptoms were like having bad gasoline. The car was missing and pinging and runnning like s**t. Anyway I stopped to look under the hood and noticed the little sliding ring that attaches the intake scoop to the air box had slid back and was allowing air to enter without passing by the sensor.I'm not certain if the oscai tubing and other components caused the tube to pull away from the airbox or if it was poor engineering on nissans behalf. The air was sucking in around the 2" gap between the two plastic parts. After sliding the ring back into the proper position the car ran perfect. I can't believe a pos litle piece plastic could inflict so much headache. I put two screws into the plastic ring to prevent any further movement. Hope this will work.
Pinging = bad
05-25-2001, 07:50 AM
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Originally posted by edadams
For those with the OSCAI, Yesterday while driving my car started to make a horrible pinging noise. The symptoms were like having bad gasoline. The car was missing and pinging and runnning like s**t. Anyway I stopped to look under the hood and noticed the little sliding ring that attaches the intake scoop to the air box had slid back and was allowing air to enter without passing by the sensor.I'm not certain if the oscai tubing and other components caused the tube to pull away from the airbox or if it was poor engineering on nissans behalf. The air was sucking in around the 2" gap between the two plastic parts. After sliding the ring back into the proper position the car ran perfect. I can't believe a pos litle piece plastic could inflict so much headache. I put two screws into the plastic ring to prevent any further movement. Hope this will work.
For those with the OSCAI, Yesterday while driving my car started to make a horrible pinging noise. The symptoms were like having bad gasoline. The car was missing and pinging and runnning like s**t. Anyway I stopped to look under the hood and noticed the little sliding ring that attaches the intake scoop to the air box had slid back and was allowing air to enter without passing by the sensor.I'm not certain if the oscai tubing and other components caused the tube to pull away from the airbox or if it was poor engineering on nissans behalf. The air was sucking in around the 2" gap between the two plastic parts. After sliding the ring back into the proper position the car ran perfect. I can't believe a pos litle piece plastic could inflict so much headache. I put two screws into the plastic ring to prevent any further movement. Hope this will work.
Screws work. Plastic ties work as well. And your OSCAI had nothing to do with it.
05-25-2001, 08:26 AM
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ARe you guys talking about the rectangular sleeve that slips on the air box after the L tube? I took the screw off my air intake, just to mess around and see how the OSCAI would work (the L tube fell right off, it was a byatch putting it back). Anyway, the rectangular sleeve is only attached it seems by having everything lined up and having the intake screwed in.
05-25-2001, 08:31 AM
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Originally posted by bcannon
ARe you guys talking about the rectangular sleeve that slips on the air box after the L tube?
ARe you guys talking about the rectangular sleeve that slips on the air box after the L tube?
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