cdelena

What is the motivation to remove this piece? It can't be that heavy and it only runs during start-up. What am I missing?

Prolene

You aren't missing much. Some of us unfortuantely have an aversion for anything which weighs anything but isn't made for structure, suspension, braking, or acceleration. A sickness.

OneQuickS2K

What's the advantage of removing the air pump assembly?
I mean, if there is no performance gains, why remove it?

When I bought my car the air pump was broken, I had to pay
$250 to buy a USED one (new is like $400+) to fix the CEL
that I had. The air pump CEL does not do anything to the car
but I hate driving the car around with CEL on, feels like something
is wrong with the car. So I say keep the air pump in there...
By the way, the air pump CEL does not come up for around one
driving cycle. I resetted my air pump CEL and the light went off
for about 100 miles of driving and it popped on again.

vapors2k

The CEL coming on for the pump had nothing to do with milage, it's all about cold start cycles since that is when it turns on.

Reason for removing it is b/c it's in the way of brake ducting and since it doesn't contribute much to the performance of the car, I don't see it usefull in keeping it. It's strictly for emissions, I'll worry about it when I have to smog the car.

vapors2k

[QUOTE]Originally posted by gernby
[B]Where do the air hoses from the pump connect to?

Gernby

The hose that goes from the pump to the intake pipe should be closed, or the intake will pull unfiltered air through it. I assumed that the output from the pump would go to something on the exhaust side, since it is providing air to the catalytic converter, right? If so, I would think that should be plugged as well.

owenxguo

ok about 2 and half years already, any idea how to remove the air pump without CEL?

blackout

Hm seems to me that perhaps you keep the relay in place with a resistor inline somewhere to fool the CEL, doesnt look like anyone found a proven solution though. Maybe ill see if I can figure out something when I remove mine being that mine is broken. I get a CEL so If i can remove it and cancel the CEL it should be good.

By the way there was a TSB on the pump for some of the AP1.

Slows2k

The air pump monitor is too complicated to build a simulator for. The easiest way to eliminate it is to get a JDM ECU (Mugen Etc) that doesn't use OBDII emissions hardware or an AEM EMS.

Spec_Ops2087

Do you or anyone else have a schematic (sp) of the electrical circuits in the air pump / harness? Is it in the helms manuel?

I'd like to take a look at it.