nrb2005tl

Today I intalled the DC sports cold air intake, along with a type-s RSB, and tinted windows. After driving around for a bit, the ECU was having alot of trouble adapting to the intake, and I was slipping all over, over-revving, and my RPM gauge was bouncing all over. eventually that got fixed after 10 miles or so, and the CAI was doing great.

But all of the sudden I noticed my engine temperature was constantly rising up to H (hot) until it maxed out and went further up the gauge. I coasted home and immediately looked under the hood and everything was fine. The fan automatically started blasting to cool the engine, but the entire engine bay was not hot at all.

So then I began to wonder.. This hasn't happened before, what's going on? I must have messed up on the CAI installation. I was confident in my efforts until I reached the coolant hose/brake vacuum lines. The CAI only comes with 2 hoses, and yet there were many hose ports in the engine bay around the throttle body. SanDiegoDrive's youtube video helped me out alot, but he did a poor job explaining the hose line installation. I'm scared I connected the wrong hoses to one and other, and I'm nervous I might have messed something up..

Ive looked all over for UP CLOSE acura tl 3g installation picture with the correctly positioned hose lines, but had no luck.

So please Acurazine, if you've experienced this same problem, or have any ideas as to why my Engine Gauge is going whack, I'd appreciate it greatly

tihomirbg

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Hmmm, that is very strange. How many hoses does this cai comes with? I remember when I had my v2, I had only one hose going to the engine. But then again I have the throttle body bypass.

NCTL05

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That's too strange for me to hazard a guess. My suggestions are to go over your instalation again and check to make sure you plugged all your connectors back in. Including your iat sensor and any others around the throttle body.

I don't think that there is anything that you could have done wrong to make it overheat from your cai install. The thermostat is mechanical and not controlled by anything. Coolant heats up, it opens. Maybe it's more of a coincedance that it's overheating?

swoosh

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check engine light is on ?

I think the coolant lines as messed up and hence the IAT is sensing something wrong....

did u install the filter correctly ? is there a leak or something you hear ?

I hate cars

There's no such thing as adapting to a CAI. You forgot something. Is it low on coolant? Go back over everything in the installation and look for anything that might have been left unplugged.

nrb2005tl

the check engine light is not on, and the filter is installed correctly, with no leaks.

we've been running water in the radiator, and we keep having to fill it up. the radiator smells like gas though, and I think we got the lines badly mixed up. Now my engine wont even start, and water is dripping out of the new CAI.

Im in desperate need of a picture with correctly lined hoses with any CAI, I would assume they're similar. I might have some engine damage too, because when it did start, the engine was idling very strangely. (rev high and rev low). please help thank you

I hate cars

Did you manage to loop one of the TB coolant lines to the CAI or to the manifold? I don't see how this is possible but who knows.

From the original post with the fan blasting cool air, it sounds like the engine had no water in it.

I wouldn't run it again until it's figured out though. Hopefully no engine damage was done when it overheated but running it this was will surely damage it eventually. Pull any hoses off that you connected, fill the radiator with water and start it briefly to see what's vacuum and what's water.

nrb2005tl

^thank you, but we figured it out.

The hose configuration was totally wrong, and I ended up connecting the radiator fluid line to the gas line, mixing both. The car was running terribly, but we got it working now. thanx for all the input guys, mods please close this thread

tihomirbg

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Hold on, I'm confused. To install this CAI, you had to deal with the radiator fluid line and the gas line? Maybe I'm missing something, but does this DC sport cai requires you to do that?

swoosh

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i got the right answer LOL

Bearcat94

No way. I'm guessing he meant some kind of vacuum line.

NCTL05

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Pics or it didn't happen.

I mean to say, could you take a picture of what you did?

Before this thread is closed I think it would be a good idea to see exactly what you did. Because this is really quite strange. Especially since it seems like alot of people are buying this intake now it would be good for them to know what they're getting into.

Plus it wasn't explained why the fuel line was even messed with. Was that even a part of the install instructions?

justnspace

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^not a fuel line.
most likely a vacuum line

NCTL05

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Even still. Why was a vacuum line messed with?

The only thing I had to do when I installed my intake was replace the valve cover hose and the throttle body coolant hose. And both are WAY different sizes. So I don't see how this got messed up. Unless the OP indiscriminately started to take hoses off and put them back wrong. But even then all the hoses are different sizes.

nrb2005tl

^idk, my dad and I installed it together. I'm still confused, but just glad my cars up and working again.

I was going to post pictures, but got too lazy.