Look at my blower!
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PCV is actually supposed to draw from the intake and cycle through to the intake manifold. Its setup so when you have excessive blowby, like nuked rings, it vents to the intake.
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Theres a PCV vent tube from the back of the cam cover to the intake pipe. Air is drawn from the intake manifold through that hole you mentioned and replaced with air through the vent tube in the intake pipe.
When there is an engine problem or in our cases, more blowby than stock levels air will revert from being drawn through the vent tube to being forced backwards into the intake pipe. It causes the situation shown in the OP.
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I really haven't looked too far into it but I don't think so, there isn't a valve or filter as far as I know.
I've seen it in every car pushing more horsepower than stock. The hole in the intake manifold is metered for a specific amount of airflow. If it were enlarged it would properly eliminate the reversion of the PCV vent tube, but its not something I have got into.
I've seen it in every car pushing more horsepower than stock. The hole in the intake manifold is metered for a specific amount of airflow. If it were enlarged it would properly eliminate the reversion of the PCV vent tube, but its not something I have got into.
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The reason i ask is for months now my car has been running lean via high LTFT always double digets positive so I figured that hole might be screwed up. I was running a **** loan of meth\boost juice and maybe plugged it up or something?
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Maybe a vacuum leak or too large of an aftermarket intake pipe?
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Thats really strange. I know the stage 2 GM tunes like to be in the double digit lean areas in the lower MAF cells but I've never seen one throw a lean trim code without a larger intake pipe or vacuum leak.
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Yea the cars f@#ed up man! If I keep it in gear and take my foot off the gas the rpms have a sudden quick drop and at that time the engine jolts like theres an excessive drag on the engine.
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Yea maybe I just can't find anything. One guy I work with said it feels like a bad IAC which could be because I used a **** load of carb clean to clean the throttle body.
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