o2 sensor help
 

Well this weekend I threw on some long tubes with my dad and went to plug in the o2 extensions to find they don't match up. The h-pipe didn't meet up with my current exhaust either so I can't put the those on till I get an exhaust shop to cut the 8 inch piece I need to complete each side. So I had to tie my sensors up to side on my ride home and needless to say the car was running like shit and was very rich. Open headers with no o2 sensors made for a fun ride home :rolleyes: lol.

The extenders I have match up with the MIL's (the blue and purple sensors) pattern but not the primary o2 sensors (green). Should I just cut the little tabs off on the sides on the o2's and slip them on anyways? I can deal with the check engine light from the MIL's till I get a tuner, but no o2's is something that I can't wait for. Don't really wanna splice. Opinions?

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Yes, just cut the tabs off. That's what I did. Some cutting pliers and a round file will make quick work of it.

Just take some wire and extend the o2 sensors, its very simple and much cheaper then o2 extensions. Return those extenders to where you got them from.

Yeah thats what I figured, just didn't know if the pattern of the tabs was specific to to extensions or what. Got the o2's plugged up tonight and taking it to an exhaust shop tomorrow to extend my cat back to reach the mid pipe.

When did you get long tubes anyhow? does this mean you bought that nitrous kit and were gonna see some v6 power?

I got the long tubes about a week ago. I just kept finding deals that I couldn't pass up.

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um, awesome?

Where was I when all of this happened? You need to post this up to give the other v6 power guys something to drool over.

Didn't you get into an accident too the other week, is the car ok?

Hell yeah, Sean! :D

I damn sure hope he/the car are okay. :(

What will the tuner do for the engine light? I know they have a scanner in the tuner but won't the cars computer just throw the code again?

The tuner will momentarily clear the engine light. If the problem persists, the computer will throw the code again regardless of the amount of times the tuner is used to clear the code.

because he has long tubes its going to threw a check engine light and the tuner will turn off the light for this mod. So it wont toss a code for having long tubes and or no cats on the car.

Yeah very awesome. Can't wait till this v6 has some balls. It all just happened recently lol. Got the kit I pmed you about, all the shit looks new.

Oh yeah btw your helping me put the kit on the car very soon. I'll have the bottle mounted and the brain box mounted, just want your help running the lines and wires if you don't mind.

The cars ok, the rear bumper is not lol. Some chick in a red mustang rear ended me, how ironic.

Yeah I'm fine. All this new shit is helping me cope with the damaged rear bumper though. Already got the insurance check in and a GT rear will be going in its place. :D

Exactly. MIL's without cats won't do shit.

So a tuner can keep the light from coming on if your car has no cats? I didn't know that. I thought you had to get the mil eliminators to trick the o2s.

Yeah there are splice in mil eliminators you can get, or you can just turn it off with a tuner. If I wasn't planning on getting a tuner I'd look into the eliminators.

You can go either way to turn the light off. If you dont have the cash a simple set of MIL eliminators work just fine. If you want to get a tuner to do it, then you can do that too.

I done spent my cash on the x pipe so I'm going to have to wait on the tuner and get the eliminators. I got a hand held scanner I just might use it to keep erasing the code til I can get the tuner. I'll just wait to see how quick the light trips.

I have a set of MIL's I need to sell if you want a pair cheap. Mine are from Steeda and are a plug in set. You just plug them inline with the rear o2 sensors and the light won't turn on.

Cheap is good right now. I'm going to need something so if you can let me know how much you want for them I'll more than likely take them off your hands. Thanks man

PM sent. and thread hijacking over, lol.

sean i aprove :) hurry up so we can race bitoch

damn i just realized i am falling behind the mod curve i need to order some new shit soon
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I can't wait to get the kit hooked up. :D Starting some this weekend if I have time.

Should be really close dude. You'll have gears/posi over me, I won't be getting those in for awile. Only thing I'll have over you is the lt's, but also gotta add my drivetrain loss cause I'm auto.

No you don't...;) lol

Should be some close races with some v6 power.

Just got done messing with the car. Had a pretty nasty exhaust leak coming from the passenger side head. Some of the header bolts were a tad bit loose. My guess would be from the headers vibrating against the frame when it was open header for a few days. Just torqued them back down and started it up. Sounds much healthier, no more ticking noises coming out.

vids NOW!!!!

I'll get a vid up soon. I took a quick vid of it open header just before I left for the exhaust shop. Not sure why the sound cuts in and out, but my guess is because the noise was too fucking loud to record lol. This video no where near gives an idea of how loud it really was. If you've been to the track and heard those guys running open header then you know what I mean lol.

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Did you toss some loktite on the bolts? Cause that will help to keep them from coming loose.

Somebody is gonna be happier than a blind queer at a weinner roast once all those goodies are installed. Congrats and hang on !!!

sean where you get the long tubes??

Found them in the classifieds on v6power. I'll ask the guy if he has any more sets left.