CAI Problem, CAI Options

[fenderdave]

Hey,
Last night I finally did my first MOD on my 7AFE, (CAI) fitted the pipe, has a whole for the temp sensor, and one for a breather tube, but I closed this off as i had no where to put a breather tube.
My issue is that when i first start the car it makes a lot of noise like you can hear it sucking up the air and the rev's are about 600 higher than normal, then once the engine heats up it stops making the noise at the rev's drop back down.

I'm guessing this isn't normal? anyone got any ideas why its doing it?

thanks in advance.

[SleekCelica]

Well then, that just sounds like normal warm up. The sucking noise you hear is you IAC allowing more air to bypass the Throttle Body, allowing for a quicker warmup, thus a higher idle. When it's warmed up to the computer's specifications, the IAC closes most of the way (sucking noise dissapears) and the RPM drops to normal idle. You are just hearing it more because, when you had the stock air system on, it has mufflers and resonators built into it to muffle those sounds.

[fenderdave]

Well then, that just sounds like normal warm up. The sucking noise you hear is you IAC allowing more air to bypass the Throttle Body, allowing for a quicker warmup, thus a higher idle. When it's warmed up to the computer's specifications, the IAC closes most of the way (sucking noise dissapears) and the RPM drops to normal idle. You are just hearing it more because, when you had the stock air system on, it has mufflers and resonators built into it to muffle those sounds.

thanks, I knew someone would know exactly what was going on, hoped it was something logical like that, I just hate the thought that I might be causing damage to my beloved 6gc, so thought i better get some advice