I Think I know Why It sounds like I have a CAI
 

someone did a drain hole in the past and there is little to no restrictions on my intake. hole is toward the top left on the bottom and small is this stock?
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is the port from the headlight to the box normally so open stock?
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does it look like i need to clean the MAF
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Hids Ballasts Mounted
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bump!!

dang, 5th gens really have no room up front..

No jen then don't, especially if you want a cai, you've got work to do. Tps I can't really tell what im looking at here or what you're really talking about.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-5...w/s903/CAI.png
small hole that was drilled at some point by my uncle why my car has a decent intake soun( red Circle)

I really doubt that small of a hole would make that much of a difference....... post a sound/vid clip.........

That's the best vid i have you cant hear the whine well. its much louder in person might possibly be my tranny as well but i thought it was weird someone drilled a hole

I don't think a small hole like that is going to make a huge difference. But my question is why did he have to drill a drain hole to begin with? Did he go mud bogging with the thing or something?

no. it did drive from boston to Arizona, Maybe so sand would build up less in Arizona? I'm gonna ask next time I'm home

the wine is more pronounced now under hard throttle with the new Spark plugs. Just another reason to do a good 0-60 Vid soon. the whine is in tune with engine RPM The higher the RPM the louder it is. Before you say alternator i i experience no light or power fade except with door locks.

Agreed, that small of a hole shouldn't make any difference. And if you have a whine then you have something causing it because you shouldn't have a whine.

Unless you got a turbo or supercharger hiding somewhere.

"My car used to have this annoying whine. But then I broke up with her." -- anonymous :rotfl:

no whine unless you hammer it into high RPM Trans fluid is fine oil is fine when i first started driving it my mechanic said the tranny was weak but all issues have disappeared all belts are good my A/C Compressor is the only abnormal thing. it has always whined for me it sounds like i have a muffled supercharger. normal driving or cruising no whine.

Sign me up for a turbo charged 3.1 :thumbsup: Especially if all I have to do is drill a small hole :rotfl:

you really here it when i let off in high rpm before it up shifts

turn up the volume high on the vid i posted you can hear it

I'm not noticing any whine.

You can get to the bottom of it by putting some duct tape over the hole and seeing if the whine persists or is gone when your out and about the next time.... :) :)

but I like the whine lmao i was just doing some clean up and noticed the hole and was like WTF i didnt do that

ok Vid TOMORROW Windows open and that should let you hear her whine the bass in my system in my room cloaks it so I am assuming you have the same issue ill catch my little spooling type noise tomorrow

That's not going to change the sound at all, that looks about stock as far as how open it is also.

A whine wouldn't come from the intake either, the intake just makes it a deeper noise.

I would close the hole to be honest.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/10670283...ts/7ANLzsrkYNo
the last 0-50 jump the whine is very noticable

I heard it in that video, I heard it in the first video. Like I said before, there shouldn't be a whine.

My co-worker made a suggestion, maybe its your alternator?

When I bought a new alternator from work for my last car it had a noticable whine to it..

Alternator is what I was thinking too.

^x3 But he said earlier he doesn't think its the alternator

It could still be producing power, just being noisy for some reason?

I guess for that fact, it could be any of the the belt driven components wearing out.

Honestly, I still can't hear any whine that seems troubling ...

the car is on it's 4th alternator of life it's not weak currently and it looks fine inside my uncle warned me it burns through them so he claimed... belt never slips so I'm Assuming the belt is fine.
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-0...9/IMAG0502.jpg
Last pic is of the pcv that was replaced for a leak. could it just be because of my rear main Seal leak
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4 alternators? That seems excessive..

Cars shouldn't burn through alternators..

Well when the security system wouldn't let me start the car he said i killed it so im guessing he was fooled by a bad dealer a couple times the pass key resistor on the key was worn and a little dirty but none the less not the origninal alternator

What does the alternator have to do with the Pass Key system?

pass key would malfunction. he couldnt start it would have it towed to a chevy dealer they would tell him the alternator had seized so he would have them replace it.

And I'm guessing after the alternator was replaced it still didn't start? Considering the two systems have nothing to do with each other.

they prolly cleaned it with a wipe but he did have it happen multiple times i had it happen 3 times before i went and had a new one made i now use that