Hello everyone,
Im new to this forum lark but have been exhaustively reading your threads over the last few days in the hope of finding advice. I have a 2006 2.5i Z4 which I have been slowly modifying since purchase. A recent impulse buy was a VOGUE MOTORSPORT BMW Induction Kit. My friend having bought something similar in nature for a MX-5, and having found fitting rather easy, this kit seemed a sensible enough buy at the time for a reasonable price.
However with a very limited mechanical knowledge, and quite carelessly not having checked under my bonnet prior to purchase, the seller's claim of the induction kit fitting all BMWs now might not appear entirely true. Whilst the new air filter cone will almost certainly replace the air fiter box without much hassle, under my bonnet there is a black lead/cable attached to, and leading from the air filter box to the side of the engine block.
In the sellers photographic examples of a fitted kit, the described lead/cable attaches directly to the air intake pipe (I think thats what its called) after the previously placed box, and subsequently now after the depicted replacing air filter cone. Unfortunately under my bonnet the lead attaches directly to the air filter box, meaning it will be disconnected for fitting of the induction kit . I realise this may be much better described by someone with more than an idiots understanding of combustion engines and the uploading of images which Im currently unable to do, but can anyone tell me what this component does and further what consequence its detatchment will have on the running of my car.
Many thanks and 'Long live the Z!'
'48'
Im new to this forum lark but have been exhaustively reading your threads over the last few days in the hope of finding advice. I have a 2006 2.5i Z4 which I have been slowly modifying since purchase. A recent impulse buy was a VOGUE MOTORSPORT BMW Induction Kit. My friend having bought something similar in nature for a MX-5, and having found fitting rather easy, this kit seemed a sensible enough buy at the time for a reasonable price.
However with a very limited mechanical knowledge, and quite carelessly not having checked under my bonnet prior to purchase, the seller's claim of the induction kit fitting all BMWs now might not appear entirely true. Whilst the new air filter cone will almost certainly replace the air fiter box without much hassle, under my bonnet there is a black lead/cable attached to, and leading from the air filter box to the side of the engine block.
In the sellers photographic examples of a fitted kit, the described lead/cable attaches directly to the air intake pipe (I think thats what its called) after the previously placed box, and subsequently now after the depicted replacing air filter cone. Unfortunately under my bonnet the lead attaches directly to the air filter box, meaning it will be disconnected for fitting of the induction kit . I realise this may be much better described by someone with more than an idiots understanding of combustion engines and the uploading of images which Im currently unable to do, but can anyone tell me what this component does and further what consequence its detatchment will have on the running of my car.
Many thanks and 'Long live the Z!'
'48'
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