My friend has a 2000 4-cylinder tiburon coupe. He already has had a custom cold air intake on the car which was place around 6 inches away from the engine block and also sat on top of the compartment very close to his carbon fiber hood. He says this intake sucks and takes in hot air, so he buys a new AEM cold air intake that sits very low, right on top of the splash guard. After we put it all in and were all set he starts the car. The car had no power, the intake manifold was very loud and sounded to be sucking in air from a hole but no hole was clearly visible. Smoke was rising from the engine block. A smell of burning grease (i think) was coming out also. Is the carburetor messed up, is there too much air or not enough? Please help

This post has been edited by giacomo: Jul 21 2008, 10:00 AM

um.. well first of all your not carbed, your fuel injected so thats a NO, now try disconnecting the intake and just leave the throttle body open and turn the car on, see what you get.
I dont believe its the intake, I think that something must've gotten bumped or disconnected, because the intake wouldnt cause any of those problems.

yea, i took the intake off and it did the same thing. my friend took it to a garage and they said it was just the o2 sensor. i cannot believe it was just that, but we shall see.

o2 sensor would be able to do that, you might be surprised at how important those little guys are