epics13
06-09-2010, 11:05 PM
Ok guys I need your help, I have a huge boost leak on my car however I can't seem to find it. This all started when I decided to take out all of my intercooler pipping from my s13 sr20det redtop, to clean the engine bay up a little, I also had a slight oil leak coming from where the headgasket and the oil pump meet, so i decided to put some gasket maker over that, which stoped the leak. So then my uncle comes over and tells me that the leak could also be coming from my valve cover and that we should take it off n reseal it around those black half moon looking parts on the valve cover, so we take it off put some gasket maker on it n tighten it back up and now my car would not build boost at all. My needle on my boost gauge will not go over 10inHg and the car feels real sluggish.
So I checked for boost leak, all my hoses were o there pretty tight, then I saw that one of the wires for my MAF was a little loose, I tried to fix that and the wire ended up coming out of the plug, so I contacted a fellow member on here and picked up a MAF from him, put that MAF on thinking my problems would be solved however to my disappointment it wasn't.
So what else should I check for I need your help here, does the valve cover comming off have anything to do with this problem even though we didnt touch anything other than the rubber gasket, also i forgot to add that we check the spark plug in cylinder 1, could this be an issue if we didn't tighten it enough, I don't think it would be cause the car starts up no problem.
Please help me get my car back to normal. Thanks in advance!!
So I checked for boost leak, all my hoses were o there pretty tight, then I saw that one of the wires for my MAF was a little loose, I tried to fix that and the wire ended up coming out of the plug, so I contacted a fellow member on here and picked up a MAF from him, put that MAF on thinking my problems would be solved however to my disappointment it wasn't.
So what else should I check for I need your help here, does the valve cover comming off have anything to do with this problem even though we didnt touch anything other than the rubber gasket, also i forgot to add that we check the spark plug in cylinder 1, could this be an issue if we didn't tighten it enough, I don't think it would be cause the car starts up no problem.
Please help me get my car back to normal. Thanks in advance!!