I just grabbed the hot air pipe with my hand and yanked her right off. No need to do anything else with the heat stove or remaining opening unless your worried about cosmetics. (Mine still has the last inch of the pipe attached to the heat stove). It isn't going to shoot heat anywhere. No fan with it, only sucked air by the vaccume of the engine. !!!A note to everybody though!!! Check your hot air pipe up against the coolant pipe. If they are too close they will rub and the hot air pipe will file a hole right into your coolant pipe. It did on mine. Jim Reeve MNDMC - Minnesota DeLorean Club DMC-6960 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "kcreason77" <dmc4687@xxxx> wrote: > --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, dherv10@xxxx wrote: > > << My car has the air intake totally removed. Can someone explain an > easy fix > > For you guys (or gals) who have removed the air intake valve: > what did you do with the hot air pipe? > Remove it and leave it open? cap it off?