Everyone knows heat sucks power from your engine. Many in our area have replaced the OEM air box with a CAI.

Here is a summer-time mod that, for less than a dollar, will decrease your intake air temperature an additional ~5 degrees fahrenheit -- ball bearings slipped into each of the feed/return coolant hoses to you throttle body. This link describes the install (which takes about 10 minutes), courtesy of hondassport.

There is absolutely no engine bog when the AC is turned on, even at low rpms. It's actually quite amazing.

Just remember to take them out when it's cold enough to turn your heater back on.

 

Tits up great trick

 

I've considered doing something like this myself but wanted to make it a one time mod and not having to mess with it twice a year when winter comes and goes.
I thought about somehow adapting the same valve that Honda uses on the heater hose that controls the water flow to the heater core. It might not be easy as the hose diameters may be too different.

 

Thx for the link. I was scratching my head on which hoses to plug. Great mod!

 

[QUOTE=xviper,Aug 19 2005, 05:09 PM]I've considered doing something like this myself but wanted to make it a one time mod and not having to mess with it twice a year when winter comes and goes.
I thought about somehow adapting the same valve that Honda uses on the heater hose that controls the water flow to the heater core.

 

bad thing, about this is that u'll get check engine light in the morning... sometimes.... it gets erritated...

 

BTW, you should not get a CEL after this mod. I don't think anyone here has.

 

Been running this mod for about 10 days now. No CEL here

 

2 years - no cel

 

Been running this mod since May 1st. , no check engine light.