Air pump- Stay or get shot?

[L18M]

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[MrHanky]

Interesting thread this.  Sorry for potentially dumb question but are you able to ditch the air pump and other emissions stuff from the EGI and continue to have the 5th and 6th ports work correctly?
 
Is this a problem if you change header and ditch the cat?
 
Thanks
 
Mark

[Prof]

That\'s not a dumb question - actually a very good one - if you do remove the airpump on an EGI - you have to provide some other mechanism for operating the 2 additional intake ports.  There\'s some right ups on the rx7club forum about using actuator\'s or solenoids to do this.

[MrHanky]

That\'s not a dumb question - actually a very good one - if you do remove the airpump on an EGI - you have to provide some other mechanism for operating the 2 additional intake ports. There\'s some right ups on the rx7club forum about using actuator\'s or solenoids to do this.

Oh right, might just keep that in then.  Can I still remove stock airbox and retain the air pump?
 
Thanks
 
Mark

[Prof]

Yep - when I got my HKS mushroom induction kit - it came with a small bit of foam to go in the end of the air intake for the air pump - so as long as you put some sort of filter on it you\'d be fine.

[MrHanky]

Yep - when I got my HKS mushroom induction kit - it came with a small bit of foam to go in the end of the air intake for the air pump - so as long as you put some sort of filter on it you\'d be fine.

Brilliant, thanks very much for the help.  Now I just need some funds so that I can buy my K&N
 
Mark