Negative on the BAM, my daughter's birthday party is on the 15th and we're having people over to our house that night, which means drinking and dancing. Sunday will be cleanup. Which, depending on how drunk people are, could mean several bodies.

If you're heading to Tracy or Pleasanton, my work and house are both freeway close (880/680 on work 580/680 on house), it's a 5 minute thing to delete those codes.

 

Sweet... sounds like my parties. Been a few times I found people scattered around my property... usually my brother. One time he was sitting there talking to himself and he didn't even know who I was. LOL!

I used to live in P. Town actually. I went to Valley Christian. Lived off Ray St. for a while and off Jenson across the street from Amador. My aunt lives off Vinyard right now. And my buddy is in Tracy. I'm out that way every month or so.

 

An idea would be to connect the sensor while the car is warm, so the TGV is open, then disconnect so it fails open. This way, you know for sure the TGV is open for normal driving conditions, and then get the codes turned off. That way, your car will run normal for smog, since you want your car smogged hot anyway. Then, as everyone else is saying, weigh your options on TGV deletes or fixing this.

TGVs are only a cold emissions thing, and TGV generators are only on USDM cars (hence the JDM style manifolds having longer runners and no TGVs). So there's really no downfall in terms of how the car runs, and IIRC (someone verify this for me?), it doesn't require a tune other than turning the codes off since it just smooths the air coming into the cylinder.

 

Found a good write up on nasioc

TGV Delete FAQ: Read if you are thinking of buying one! - NASIOC

 

Wait so you push it back together and it works? Glue it and use a f'n zip tie.

 

Yeah... I'll give it a go. Good idea with the zip tie to give some extra hold. I'll try to crawl in there tonight and do it.


After you left I buttoned everything up and did an oil change. Then went for a shake down. Started shooting coolant all over and went in to limp mode. Coolant was an easy fix. I tried clearing the codes and it ran great the back in to limp mode. I got out to 101 and pulled over and just reached back and wiggled the sensor and pushed it back together. The code came off and I drove it in to gilroy with no issues until I got on it a little bit. The motor shake pushed it off but it was the low voltage code not the failure code. Still runs fine it's just got low voltage because the sensor isn't quite together.

I think the glue will fix it. I hope.