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Post by LaureltheQueen »

So a while back I went to target and bought the mug for the mod. Well, one cold morning I left my coffee cup in my car, and needed a vessel for my morning dose of tea, so cleaned out the dusty mug, and put some tea in it. I fell in love with the mug and have been using it almost daily ever since. Now that I dont have time to do anything ever, I was wondering if anyone had tried the mug mod and had trouble with it, and wanted to sell me theirs?
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For the cost of shipping, I'll send you my 99-cent orange plastic drinking glass that I attached an IAC valve hose fitting to. It's even got a metallic Subaru sticker on it. :)
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Post by BAC5.2 »

Wasn't it Blue? Or did you make another one?
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Post by evolutionmovement »

Is that the one you had installed?

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Post by vrg3 »

I broke the blue one that I had installed. Who knew that a 99-cent plastic drinking glass would get brittle when under the hood of my car for a couple thousand miles?

I made this orange one but I'm not using it because I went another route -- I'm now using a 3"-to-2.5" elbow off the MAF sensor and then a short straight piece of 2.5" OD pipe with an IAC bung on it. I scrapped the auxiliary purge system and I'm not using stock boost control, so I don't need the other two fittings. It looks neato.
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Post by BAC5.2 »

Pics?

Did you get my most recent e-mail?
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I'll see if I can get a picture... It's pretty straightforward though.

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Post by BAC5.2 »

It's 54 degrees here. It gets down to the low 40's in the morning when I wake up to go to work.

Looks like the elbow you were gonna use for your turbo swap, and the same fitting you had on your BOV plate dealie.

What did the purge canister do, and why is it OK to be without it?
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Post by vrg3 »

Basically, yes, that's it. I had that elbow from turbo swap preparations, and I had an extra copper elbow from when I made the BOV adapter, and I actually just had the 2.5" tailpipe extender lying around too.

I still have the purge canister -- I just switched to an NA one and scrapped the auxiliary purge valve (the one that goes between the canister and the resonator, that takes a manifold pressure signal from the #1 runner).

To be extra-safe I stuck a check valve in the main purge line, but that shouldn't be necessary. So now my canister will only purge when I'm off boost. That shouldn't be a problem, since I do regularly visit the realm of subatmospheric manifold pressures.
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Post by mikec »

vrg3 wrote:So now my canister will only purge when I'm off boost. That shouldn't be a problem, since I do regularly visit the realm of subatmospheric manifold pressures.
Sorry.... Had to stick a :lol: in here at that Vikash.
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Post by Legacy777 »

that's grade A sig material there :)
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Funny, I was thinking the same thing.... :D
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Post by tris91ricer »

OMG. you guys are geeks. :lol: I need to be doing this mod sometime here, too.. but as I understood it, the mug was PRE-MAF...? But in the pics --its POST-MAF. Where did i misread it?
eh, I don't have time yet, anyhow..
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Post by Legacy777 »

The mug is mainly for the turbo cars and replaces the chamber box thingy
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Post by vrg3 »

Yeah, it replaces the resonator between the MAF sensor and compressor inlet. You can see the stock setup on morgie's old car here: http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~v/pics ... ge_tap.jpg
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Post by syphon »

Someone should do a writeup in the Library for this mod.

What does it gain you anyway? Just better flowing intake?
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Post by -K- »

It should flow better than the box. And the big plus is the turbo noise as well as the stock bov should be louder. I love the intake sounds... If you want a good one that just fits MRT makes one. Find a MRT dealer in the states, they won't stock it me thinks but could order it.
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