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Old 06-18-2008, 08:34 PM
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i have a 1998 mustang v6 and got a throttle body and air intake installd recently. now when i accelerate i hear a whisling sound. i dont know if its the intake sucking in air or what and was wondering if it was normal?
 
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Old 06-18-2008, 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by 98 STANG
i have a 1998 mustang v6 and got a throttle body and air intake installd recently. now when i accelerate i hear a whisling sound. i dont know if its the intake sucking in air or what and was wondering if it was normal?
you are supped to hear that. i think. i know i heard a different sound after i installed my cai, but whistling? like blower, thats shouldnt happen. my sound is just a differnt sound of air rushing in through the intake
 
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Old 06-18-2008, 08:44 PM
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it could be the intake sucking air
 
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Old 06-18-2008, 09:16 PM
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yeah it is just a whistle like sound from your intake sucking in air.
 
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Old 06-18-2008, 09:18 PM
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THANKS
 
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Old 06-19-2008, 04:31 AM
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When you hear it push in your clutch a little bit if it goes away means your TOB is bad
 
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Old 06-19-2008, 06:21 AM
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When I first bought a CAI I got the whistle but when I bought the TB the whistle went away. My friends used to say that is ounded like I had one of those fake turbos.
 
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Old 06-19-2008, 06:35 AM
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my tob is bad so it whistles lol
 
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Old 06-21-2008, 03:40 PM
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yeah mine whistles too, i have a bbk cai. Im starting to think no one wants to have a go at me becusae of this sound =P is kinda loud. I have an auto btw.
 
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Old 06-22-2008, 07:37 AM
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yeah mine whistles too, i have a bbk cai. Im starting to think no one wants to have a go at me becusae of this sound =P is kinda loud. I have an auto btw.

yeah, sure.
 
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Old 06-22-2008, 02:56 PM
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My 96 v6 has a pretty noticably whistling noise when I accelerate, but my car is completely stock...Im not sure if its cause I cleaned out my intake, which has a shitload of sand in it from the dirtroad I used to live on, but I didnt think the stock intakes were strong enough to be noticeable like that.

Ive actually fooled some of my friends into thinking that I installed a supercharger..haha.
 
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Old 06-22-2008, 03:42 PM
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haha newb friends ftw!
 
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Old 06-22-2008, 06:06 PM
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Haha, word.

I was just curious though, could the belt be making the whistling noise?
Cause my ac compressor went to **** not too long ago and I had to have it replaced immediately, only I couldnt afford it, so I took it to a guy I knows shop and he threw on a chrysler ac compressor after some ghetto, emphasis on ghetto, rigging, and it wasnt making that noise before, but around the same time I had that replaced was the same time I cleaned out my air box.

Good thing though I didnt have pay for the rigged compressor, or the labor, haha.
 
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Old 06-22-2008, 06:31 PM
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my power steering pump whines.
 
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Old 06-23-2008, 12:20 PM
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my intake whistling too i have a bbk intake
 
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Old 06-23-2008, 04:20 PM
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Any aftermarket intake should have a pretty strong whistling through the filter when you rev or accel.
 
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Old 06-23-2008, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by NeedACobra
Any aftermarket intake should have a pretty strong whistling through the filter when you rev or accel.
They sometimes do but it's not somthing that they should do it's just a design flaw
 
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