Snapped the nipple off mine like a dummy. Anyone have one kicking around they'd like to sell?

 

Picture? How did you break that?

 

The plastic nipple at the top of the actuator? I was trying to get to the vac hose underneath and leveraged it off.

 

Gotcha. Ill keep an eye out locally and send them your way if i see one.

 

FYI, I had Josh (curly) retrofit a VCTS actuator onto my VICS manifold. The VCTS is all metal, so no worries about breaking off the nipple. I think he had to make a bracket or something for it, might be worth asking him about.

 

Interesting, I have one laying around, might try that.

I ended up cutting the top off the VICS one and epoxying in a new barb. Seems like it work? It's pretty fancy. #customfab.

 

 

I have a extra VTCS actuator PM me if you want it.

 

Bump! My booty fix is starting to fail, so looking for the actuator again.

 

I have the exact same failure; snapped off nipple while twisting off the vacuum hose. For my turbo'ed setup, I'm trying to decide if I should replace it, or just mechanically set the butterfly's closed. Reading endless threads on the topic, with different opinions about results has me undecided. If you find more than one actuator, please PM me!

 

I'll prob just end up buying a whole manifold to pirate the one part I need.

 

Lemme look through all my stuff. I swear I have a spare one somewhere. And a whole VICS intake.

 

Let me know!

 

Still haven't found the spare one. No telling where I squirreled it away. I've got one on the whole intake but I'd rather not separate them.

Edit: https://www.autolinkmx5.com/valve-vi...sed-7559-p.asp this is what you're looking for?

 

this guy’s pretty smart.

 

I needed one as well; found two on eBay, and got one of them, they were both going for $25. shipped. Still available as of yesterday.

 

Here's a picture of the adapter bracket, I can get a better one if necessary. Basically a ~1.5x1.5" plate, thick enough to tap, so ~1/4" thick. On one end you'll tap m6x1, and drill a small hole for the locking nub on the VTCS actuator. On the other side you'll drill a through hole to bolt it to the manifold, and tap m6x1 and stick a bolt through to act as the nub to again lock the bracket on the manifold. Obviously taking measurements for all of this. I've done this twice, no failures so far, metal barb.