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Sun Nov 16, 2008 1:22 pm

I'm going nuts trying to figure out what is attached to these pipes? All I have is the Idiot book (Bentley was just ordered last night). The pipes are the same on each side running on top of the valve heads. Do the pipes connect to one another? A damper? Fresh air pipes? I've driven around with nothing connected to them......bad?

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Sun Nov 16, 2008 1:39 pm

Those tubes are for the heater mixer boxes. They bring cool air from the elbows, that you don't have with the aftermarket exhaust on your car. I'd plug them with a film canister or something similar, so you don't get exhaust fumes into the car. When (if) you decide to put a stock exhaust back on the car, then you can connect them like they were originally. I know Russ has posted some pics (pages) of the entire stock exhaust system, and it's components in a few other threads. You might want to look at them, so you can get an idea of what they look like, and how it all goes together. I hope this helps.

Sun Nov 16, 2008 1:46 pm

Bobnotch wrote: Those tubes are for the heater mixer boxes. They bring cool air from the elbows, that you don't have with the aftermarket exhaust on your car. I'd plug them with a film canister or something similar, so you don't get exhaust fumes into the car. When (if) you decide to put a stock exhaust back on the car, then you can connect them like they were originally. I know Russ has posted some pics (pages) of the entire stock exhaust system, and it's components in a few other threads. You might want to look at them, so you can get an idea of what they look like, and how it all goes together. I hope this helps.

Fantastic, thanks for your reply!

Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:01 pm

From another thread

Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:26 pm

Yep, I remember seeing that diagram, however did not seem to make sense to me :? . EverettB, I will make more of an effort to make make better subject lines. I feel like a kid in school getting corrected by the teacher :oops: .

Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:52 pm

:lol: Your Edit & Preview buttons come in handy sometimes! :wink:

Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:12 pm

Mike Fisher wrote: :lol: Your Edit & Preview buttons come in handy sometimes! :wink:

I do use these on a regular basis :) . Everett just likes to add more so that the potential reader has a better idea of what he/she is going to read. Or in my other case erasing too many question marks...like tdc???????? Why I think he even capitalized it for me. :D

Funny, last night when I was ordering my Bentley manual from books4 cars I wanted to put Mike Fisher in the spot when it asked me where I heard about their site. :lol: