The Beast has been Slain

[dadallyllama]

Apparently the by pass valve on my AEM intake exploded and sent pieces of foam into my throttle body and intake manifold. It's kinda ironic having the bpv send my car to the shop. Hopefully I can get some new goodies out of this... like a 70mm throttle body... or a b18c1... but I doubt it.

Can somebody tell me how much a OEM throttle body would cost? And would it make any significant power gains to add an aftermarket TB on a d16y8?

 

[RaYrAy]

that's stale dude!! wasn't there a story about this recently on here?

 

[dadallyllama]

I don't even know...

 

[SeanMc300]

yeah couple threads down. that sucks man, if you somehow prove that it was caused by product malfunction or something i be tyou can get aem to foot th bill.

 

[EluSive2K]

fawk man, i dont know if im gonna put my BPV back on, if its gonna f**k up my engine. Damn, thats weak. I cant afford to put my car in shop right now, or else it would have already been painted. But yeah, if you can prove that it was a product malfunction im sure they will pick up the tab for ya too!! See what you can do.

 

[boricuacvc]

that's fukin ass man. to think, i love AEM products. i guess i'll just still to my little short ram and prevent all that s**t from happenin to me. luck to ya man. hope to get them fawkers to pay for that s**t.

 

[DirtyD]

how did your intake explode?

 

[ImportFan1]

that sux yeah there was a thread the other day bout this some ring or something broke off the bypass valve and got caught in the throttle body and caused some dude some major problems after hearin these stories im glad i got the V2 and they dont make the valve for them

 

[DirtyD]

I'm just glad I haven't wasted money on any AEM product

 

[bloodyadobokid]

I'm glad because I'm gonna GET PAID TONIGHT! * Raising the ROOF *

 

[anekin007]

aem is just a well known company, most of the parts are not the greatest parts. how did the by pass exploded? did the intake just suck so hard and broke it into little pieces?

 

[boricuacvc]

why is everyone hatin on AEM? i've never had a problem with them. besides the bypass valve problem, what's so bad about them?

 

[Mr. Lin]

As for the cost of a new throttle body, BBK makes a 70mm TB for the d16. It's $3oo. <<Click Me>>

 

[anekin007]

aem parts are over rated

 

[DirtyD]

over rated and overpriced

 

[b16a2power]

aem is an awesome company i love every aem part on my car ive never heard of that happening but you should get on the phone and see what they can do to help you out. It seems like a company that big should be willing to help you out

 

[dadallyllama]

I got my car back today. Only 1 day in the shop... not too bad. The rubber part of the BPV got stuck in the throttle body. So they only have to take that out and readjust the throttle cable. Oh yeah, they also fixed my annoying check engine light, it was throwing something like 6 error codes.

 

[illicon2003]

I doubt it was because of anything but improper install/maintenence.

 

[dadallyllama]

maybe so... but I made most of it and turned the CAI into a short ram