so today finally after about a year of looking for the damn thing..i decided to go out to my car pop the hood and find the missing vacuum leak. I'd tried before time and time again but no results then i found out that WD-40 works, but you must put quite an amount of it. I found some bottles of carb cleaner laying around and decided to give it a try and bam, underneath the intake manifold was my leak, a tiny piece of the gasket, covered by grease off the engine, was sticking out, so i ripped the little pieced, packed the crack full with gasket silicone and my idle became greatly impacted, took out the flat head screw driver and began messing with the idling, as i got lower and lower i began to hear that sound approach ...brap brap, braaaaaa, brap brap braaaaaa...it wasn't long before i was reaching for the Kleenex and...brap brap brap brap brap brap.......i'm so excited, of course that silicone is temporary since i ran out of daylight today, but i'll be running around tomorrow to find the gasket and i'll be installing it as soon as i do.

 

congrats! any pics or vids? got it road worthy yet?

 

not yet, i'm sorry, my camera broke not long ago, but i'll try to get some, i'm gonna get the gasket today and if they have it in stock then i'll install it, if not i will as soon as it gets here...i love the sound tho, and the smoothness, the whole time i've owned the 7 it's had that leak so i didn't know ho smooth it was supposed to run, it's quite a difference.

 

ok, so i'll be removing the manifold as soon as the gasket gets here (had to order it online since no local auto parts have them, can't even order them :P) but i was wondering what else should i do/check for while i have the manifold off, as far as cleaning/maintenance goes?