Re: This worked well

Posted by Ross On 2016/4/23 20:57:59

This is maybe the 4th time I have encountered this in my life, but it might save someone a lot of trouble:

Symptom was lack of power, really dreadful performance at anything above say 1/3 throttle. This was in a car with all fresh components and carefully tuned. Idle and low throttle performance was excellent.

Culprit was: the felt pad on the inside lid of the air filter. It was collapsing down around the air passage through the body of the filter and greatly restricting airflow. I glued it back into place, a quick and easy fix for an annoying problem.

These felt pads were used for noise reduction on the filters with the oiled mesh. Good idea to give yours a look--it will save a lot of gas.