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Old Jun 11, 2006 | 10:36 AM
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I'm in the middle of putting my vortech head unit mounting brackets on, and I noticed that my car's AIR pump inlet valve was ripped off and the hose was missing, because I bought my car used, I'm assuming the previous owner deleted the AIR in what you wouldn't call the "cleanest" way. Well, since my car's AIR is already disabled and it's a pain in the *** to relocated the AIR pump, can I just deleted my AIR pump all together? My headers are Pacesetter long tubes with emissions hookups, would that cause a problem? Would I have to plug them up? thanks
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Old Jun 11, 2006 | 10:50 AM
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Get rid of that junk. I would have dumped it a long time ago. You just have to put a block off plate on..
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Old Jun 11, 2006 | 12:34 PM
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Ok, I'm going to rip out the pump and all the vacuum lines as well, thanks for your reply!
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Old Jun 11, 2006 | 12:47 PM
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is there a place that sells blockoff plates? I need one for the header and also one for the intake manifold
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Old Jun 11, 2006 | 01:42 PM
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I got mine off ebay I believe.. Search on there
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Old Jun 11, 2006 | 07:50 PM
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www.ls1speed.com is where I got mine. I just deleted mine this weekend. If you remove the actual pump and not just the tubing (like I did for the time being) you will get an SES light. I removed all the tubing, put on the block off plates, and no codes were thrown. It just blows air out into nothing for 2 minutes and makes a neat little "pop" now that the tubing isn't on. Way easier to do your plugs now too.
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Old Jun 11, 2006 | 09:02 PM
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so you left the pump in the car?

haha, you can get it tuned out.

and yea ls1speed sells the block off plates for fairly cheap
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