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Old Sep 24, 2011 | 01:30 PM
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I have a 92mm fast intake and when I rev the motor the intake expands, my best guess is that at idle when there's the most vacuum the intake contracts, and when vacuum is released when motor is reved it returns to its normal shape, but has anyone else notice their fast intake expanding or contracting, it only does it in the back of the intake back where the map sensor is,

Also would anyone know where I could get some injector seals?, not the o rings to the fuel line but the seal where injectors sit into intake, everywhere I go they say it comes with a new intake or a cylinder head gasket kit.

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Old Sep 24, 2011 | 01:34 PM
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Are you serious? That sounds really weird. Are you sure it is expanding and contracting or maybe it looks that way for some reason. I don't think what your saying is possible
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Old Sep 24, 2011 | 01:48 PM
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I wouldn't believe its possible either, but i was checking for an oil leak, and as I would rev it I kept seeing something move in the back of the intake, and realized it was the intake itself. I'll take a vid of it when I get a chance,
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The motor is solid mounted nothing should be moving
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Old Sep 25, 2011 | 12:59 AM
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Plz take a video. That would be some really weird **** lol. I don't see how plastic could expand and contract. You would think it would just crack
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Old Sep 25, 2011 | 01:41 AM
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Unless its cracked somewhere, I can't see it expanding. The other possibilty is that the bolts that connect the upper shell to the lower shell are loose, and you are seeing the top shell move a little..
But even then it thats hard to believe because the the fuel rails/injectors are in place and those are a very tight fit which wouldn't allow any movement between the shells..

Without seeing it, I would have to assume its some type of optical illusion.
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Old Sep 25, 2011 | 02:12 AM
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Unless its cracked somewhere, I can't see it expanding. The other possibilty is that the bolts that connect the upper shell to the lower shell are loose, and you are seeing the top shell move a little..
But even then it thats hard to believe because the the fuel rails/injectors are in place and those are a very tight fit which wouldn't allow any movement between the shells..

Without seeing it, I would have to assume its some type of optical illusion.
Exactly what I was thinking lol
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Old Sep 25, 2011 | 02:16 AM
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I have seen at less 3 new 5.0s do this.Im sure it could be moving,but doesnt sound right.
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do a leak down test,maybe you have a leaky intake valve.
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I bought O-rings for injectors at a local Napa store. I just told them what I needed and that it fit a stock 28lb LS1 injector and they came up with two or three of them per box. Good luck.
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Old Sep 25, 2011 | 09:39 PM
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I've seen this on a Ford 3.8 once. Not sure what was causing it but it looked weird as hell. It looked like it was going to explode when I revved it.
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Originally Posted by garygnu
do a leak down test,maybe you have a leaky intake valve.
I do have a misfire under load that I have been chasing for some time now, been checking everything else in hoping it wouldn't be a valvetrain issue, but that's the next step
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