What is this?

Hey guys, me and Freddy was checking my engine the other day, we checked something that he doesn't have and I have been looking in other engines aswell but I don't see this thing in other sx's....what is it?

damn firewall

the pic is blocked, as are many of the pics on this forum.

draco send it to me on email please!

What is your E-mail address?

pm'ed you

looks as if somebody tried to connect a bigger FPR.......interesting, but it doesn't look connected.

Difficult to say with the pic, Might be some sort of vacuumcan or regulator

south africa wasn't supposed to get the charcoal canister - and i dont know what it looks like, 'cos i always ignore that part of the FSM.

is that not the charcoal canister?

It is connected, the pic was taken with a cell...

What does a vacuum can and a charcoal canastar do?

to what is it connected

I can't really see but it looks like it goes to the power transistor

charcoal canister has something to do with emissions!!!

Its that thingy you get to controll the butterflies on the Inlet manifold on a jap spec head!

i Know coz iv'e now got one. Just leave it disconnected. our cars didnt come with the solinoid or the functionality on the ECU to controll it.

It is currently connected, always was......if I disconnect it won't it screw up something?

here's my advice:

now you know what it is.
you also know that its useless.

and here's the best part:

now you can rip it out, and throw it away.

ask freddie what my engine bay is missing. and my CA still runs occasionally!!!!

I don't know why but the "occationally" thing bothers me....

Damn that means you have the 8 port head.
To my understanding (I will confirm) disconnected mean the butterflies remain closed.

But if it came like that from the factory they could have removed the butterflies plates

This means?

my ford tracer 1300 also had that stupid 8 port stuff.

i ripped it out quickly!!! made no difference other than having way more responsiveness from the engine.

but then again - it could've been the weber 36dcd that also made it more responsive. or did that give it more power.

hmmm...

i'm confussing myselves now!

just take it out draco!!! your 8 butterflies i mean!!!!

Disconnected means its always open. Pretty much like they arent even there.

Its not so easy to 'just take them out'. Maby if you had the engine out and are stripping it anyway!