Hi guys. I took off my K&N finally and bought an AEM intake. I removed the front bumper and crash bar as well, and came across this tubing attatched to a green electrical sensor (picture 1) and a black circular chamber (picture 2) that runs into the bottom of the throttle body (picture 3). What is all of this? and can I remove it and plug the bottom of the throttle body before I install my intake?

Another thing, if I decide to keep the crash bar off, can I unplug the sensor (picture 4) without setting off the airbag light? And would it effect chassis strength/rigidy if removed?

 

Do not remove the crash bar.. put that back on.. and No you do not need that stuff in the picture it is for your VFAD system that went to your stock intake.. Just disconnect the green connector and keep that zip tied somewhere as the other stuff take that tube off of your intake manifold and cap it.. and bobs your uncle..

 

The lowest picture is the ambient temp sensor...just zip tie it to something so your in cabin temp gauge still works

The green one is the VFAD solenoid...you don`t need that...just re,ove it and plug the vac line at the manifold and you are good

 

if u wanna die instantly in a front collision, then go ahead remove the crash bar

plug back everything else except VFAD

 

Awesome thanks for the help guys. Well the only reason I was going to remove that was to see if the air filter would fit behind it because it was a decent size, but I did get it to fit with the crash bar on so I will be keeping it on