Finally fixed my elbow.
 

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Old elbow and that the sliencer that refused to come out. I ended havingto jack up my to get it out.

New elbow

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Installed.

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My clean MAF, I hate my car. turns out the air pump hose was unhooked so yeah it has been sucking up dirt from two entry points. :rolleyes:

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ouch man good job fixin

what kinda elbow is that? and whats the tube coming out the bottom? i've always wondered that...

The elbow is a trick flow black powder coated elbow and the little tube is the vent for the Opti.

looking good, glad its fixed!

glad its fixed :)

For some reason I thought you had a 3.4L. [shrug]

no i mean the one at the bottom that this connects to:
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The tube is a silencer which is basically pointless. With or without it the amount of noise is no different. On a side note I wanted a 1LE elbow first but couldn't find one at a decent price, the day after I ordered my trickflow I discovered speedinc sold 1LE elbows for about $55. Go figure. :confused: :rolleyes:

The tube is a silencer which is basically pointless. With or without it the amount of noise is no different. On a side note I wanted a 1LE elbow first but couldn't find one at a decent price, the day after I ordered my trickflow I discovered speedinc sold 1LE elbows for about $55. Go figure. :confused: :rolleyes:

What the donkey-dong on the stock LT1 elbows does, is make throttle response smoother. Normally, not a lot of air goes in there during part throttle, because the engine is sucking it all in. However, when you let off, some of the rushing air goes into the little tube, so when you apply throttle again, the air comes back up to allow the response to be fluid.

It doesn't make a noticable difference, but that's what one of the Goodwrench mechanics up here told me.

What the donkey-dong on the stock LT1 elbows does, is make throttle response smoother. Normally, not a lot of air goes in there during part throttle, because the engine is sucking it all in. However, when you let off, some of the rushing air goes into the little tube, so when you apply throttle again, the air comes back up to allow the response to be fluid.

It doesn't make a noticable difference, but that's what one of the Goodwrench mechanics up here told me.