Accident..or intentional?

[Dargasonus]

I have always had problems with my grand am..I've spent way more in repairs than the car cost me. Around christmas time I had my LIM repaired (for the second time), but I was still having some problems with my engine getting hot.

Never overheating..but way hotter than it should be, enough to make you worry. At this point in time Im pretty tired of sinking money into it, so I never cared to check it out. With my passangerside wheel bearing going worse and worse everything I hear it..I thought maybe I should try to see (once again) if I could get my car to running a decent temp before I paid money to replace it. So I asked / looked around..Picked up a new thermostat and coolant cap.

I went to start taking it apart to get to the thermostat housing a couple days ago..I took off the first peice of my CAI and I find a interesting little bugger in the piping up against the MAF..(on the right side).

This is not my doing, as I had not cut these when I installed the CAI..and the last person to have it off was my mechanic.

Take a peek see at my surprise: :lol:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/xoticneon/IMG_0921.jpg?t=1181854313

As you can see..it's a portion of coupler that had been (after I started looking) cut from the coupler on the TB. I guess maybe the mechanic thought it his duty to modify my parts :mad:

Nevertheless, I thought for kicks I'd put it backtogether real quick (without the extra peices clogging my intake) and changed my cap. I've had it out a couple times now and it's stayed right at the right temp..a little warm in stop and go traffic but it's ran fantastic compared to what It was doing.

And in conclusion..What do you think? Harmless accident or sabatoge?

I'm not too sure how you can 'accidently' get a peice of coupler in a pipe it is sized to go AROUND personally.

[Dargasonus]

Ohhhh :lol:

I forgot I wasn't in the off topic..

Don't laugh at my noobness. :lol:

[Dargasonus]

*patiently waiting for a mod to wander by and move my post*

:lol:

[RazorDX]

Someone can photoshop it anyway. Maybe a kickass glove mod or something.

[Dargasonus]

Yeah..since a mod hasn't been past this section all day..

'Pmfg kan some1 lower my couplr and gib it some sw33t rimz yo?!'

[MantaGreen97]

Try reporting your own post to a moderator, with the appropriate link in the lower right side of any of your posts ;)

As for intentional or accidental, if that's the piece that was cut (in the picture) I would say that looks like it has to be intentional no? I mean how on earth could that be an accident? I looks pretty cleanly done.

I'm going to take a guess and figure that the mechanic couldn't get the CAI/intake piping to line up properly so he just cut it so it fit better maybe? Just a guess. Otherwise I have no idea why the mechanic would have done that :???:

[sunrunner_pei]

*thread moved*

Next time try contacting a moderator or use the 'Report this post to a moderator' link. We can't possibly ready every thread. :)

[XoticGA]

I was gunna this morning, but it says only for certain things, I didn't wanna overload you guys because he's tardcake :lol:

[sunrunner_pei]

Originally posted by XoticGA
I was gunna this morning, but it says only for certain things, I didn't wanna overload you guys because he's tardcake :lol:

No worries, our mods (and admins) are slackers anyways. We need the work. :lol:

[99GrandAMSE]

... yep, I am tied of sitting here with my feet up :lol:

[JeremiahCoffel]

I think it's probably an intentional accident. Some clearance issues that the mechanic had problems with, so he shaved it a little, to make it fit. Possibly not knowing it would have done what it has been, and not knowing it was cut too much?

[Dargasonus]

Yeah, it was definately cut to fit, since you can see on the cut peice where my coupler was..

But how it 'accidently' falls into the pipe I'm not sure :idunno:

Cars still runnin great for a change.