ok, so I just took off my CAI a few hours ago because winter is coming around, and I also want to take off my engine mods so that I can do a "stock" engine dyno, so after I install my Exhaust, cams, pullies, VAFC2 tuned, helix spacer, thermoblok spacers I can redyno and find out exactly how much of a gain it all got me. I'll be removing my headers tommorow.

anyways, I took off the CAI and did a seafoam job on my engine, and after having the CAI on my car only a couple months after I got it and now removing it the engine sounds soo incredibly quiet/weird to me. I still have the headers on and I didn't install the resonator with it, just the box with the filter and the hose from teh box to the throttle body.

So I was going WOT a lot to clean out all the smoke from teh sea foam, and when I first went WOT I was like "wtf, why is it so quiet? Is my engine not warm?" and I glanced down at my RPMS and temp gauge and both were in teh range where I normally hear the intake screamin, then I rememberd I put the stock airbox back in and thogh "doh". AFter a few WOT runs, I notices a slight whistle/whine and I could swear it sounds just like a supercharged engine, lol. Good shit.

It'll be even better when I get a turbo installed and i hear that turbo spooling up.

 

well that whine could be your alternator shitting itself so dont be too happy

 

and at the same time

 

:ROFL: thanks for the support. I wasn't really "happy" about the whine, jsut thought it was funny.

 

My friend had a weird almost supercharger whine when he accelerated on his prelude.

Honda ended up charging him like, $600 to fix it. :ripped:

 

pwnt. well I can already notice hte lost power from taking off the CAI I have to give it more gas now in 3rd gear at a 40-50 roll to get teh same acceleration

I'm sure this whistle/whine is just because I don't have the resonator on the air box.

 

i dunno man, i read some other thead about the sea foam.. and the whistle i think many others have this whistle as well as I... if it is the alternator its been months w/ that whine and its my 2nd alternator.. warrantee better cover my monkey ass

 

man what the hell are you talking about? you had like three topics in that chunk of text, non of which had much substance. are you saying the sea foam caused my alternator to fail?

 

seafoam is not the killer

 

What's A Cai And What Does Sea Foam Do.

 

omg I just uninstalled my headers and my car is so slow

 

haha i had a whinning sound like from a supercharger, found out it was the pulley belt from my crank pulley. it was a cool sound, got louder when i steped on it. lol It was a bad belt.

 

You had better fix that shit now or you'll regret it later.

 

just turn the radio up and you'll be fine


otherwise, get the alternator checked budddy

 

that's exactly ho9w it is. don't even notice it at idle/cruise, but when I go WOT it get's loud. I'm putting on some UR pullies soon, so hopefully rplacing those belts will do it.

 

My car is 3.0
I have a new belt; I still heard the whinning sound from the Intake's side of my car

It just happened during 2500 to 3000 rpm
After I added the SRI, the sound is much louder

Anything wrong with my car? or it is normal?

 

after u do seafoam.. usually the intake sounds louder..

so.. IMO.. your car is normal condition

 

haha. You getting a UR pulley eh? I got one too! Just to tell you if you are going to do it yourself, you need this special tool, and its a bitch to do! Everything is got to line up right, otherwise you are going to mess up the engine and it will make that noise. When you get belts make sure you get the ones that have ridges across it thats the "quite" belts.

 

IMO it's not worth taking all that stuff off for something "might" happen. BTW, what would happen? I leave all my shit on and I live in an area of lots of snow and ice.

Mike,
CAI, Cold Air Intake

Sea Foam, cleans the carbon build up.

 

although, its not colorado

 

i guess he wants to be safe rather then sorry later..

good move IMO..

 

also getting a dyno this wednesday so I can compare my stock power to my I/H/E/cams/pullies/spacers/tuned power.