Hello, since there has been always a debate on which systems are good for our car for our, I was thinking about trying to customizing one. I currently have the stock intake which I think overall is pretty good but has some flaws. to me, it seems the intake box seems constructing in some aspects. Also the tubbing of the intake has baffles, which would reduce noise and disrupt the flow of the air.

I've seen the K&n and the AEM but all are easily over 225. So I thought,, why not get a short ram intake, an example one seen on ebay for 30 dollars, change the filter to a k&n and be done. The problem with that would be the heat soak now generated which would reduce performance. So this is how i would customize it.

First off with the aluminum piping. Its good that air flows str8 through (no baffles). Here is where i would start customizing it. Where the filter is inserted, i would go to my cousins shop and open up the hole of the aluminum. Usually there are 3" but i could expand it to lets say 4. He has a machine for mufflers to open the piping. By doing this in my opinion it would be similar to the stock design and be similar to the aemv2 design which is having a larger opening for more initial air consumption and then flow faster when it changes to smaller piping(please correct me if i'm wrong.) Then I would get a k&n filter for that size since the one it comes with is a POS.
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The short ram intake filter would be close to the edge where the opening of the headlight is. So where it gets air is similar to the prm and the comptech. the problem is with the heat soak now. What i was going to do with that was put a heatshield I had from another car, you know the aluminum ones. But I always thought those helped but not much since it still left a big opening where air could come in. How i was going to correct that was since the heat shield covers lets say 60% of the filter size, I was going to first install a bottom piece to the filter, a circular piece so that the heat cant go in from where you clamp the intake to the filter. The second thing was to expand the heat shield, with more aluminum sheet from home depot or another hardware shop. My goal would be to use the hood to help with heat not penetrating. Finally, i already have the faux vents cut out in the front of the car, so air would be able to get in that area.

AFter all that is done, the one thing i'm not sure of doing is wrapping the intake with some heat resistant material. I've seem other members ont he website do this on their intake but it kinda takes the look out of it. At least I would paint the intake with some heat resistant paint which wouldn't do much but at least for the look.

What do you guys think.. Good idea. Waste of time? I liked to work on things so its no big deal to me to take some hrs on the weekend to accomplish it. And for less than 100 dollars, i would have an intake which meets up to the other short ram intakes. And the purpose of this would mainly to get a nice sound with the vehicle and small performance... (I don't really mind if i don't get any hp or tq, but i don't want to lose any). Please give any feedback..

 

I must admit I got lazy and didn't read the whole post but IMO you should either:

1. buy a real one when you have the money
or
2. leave the stock one alone because it does a nice job to begin with and doing all that stuff you mentioned might, just might, add 1 hp and, more likely, might, just might, take away 1 hp.

but...if all you're trying to do is have a project then do whatever you want

 

just wanted to be detailed.

 

If you really want to do this on a budget you might want to try this.
Green filters makes a HUGE drop in for the stock box. I did this and then
cut a port in the right hand side of the factory box to route a 4 inch duct
to the fender well. I have effectively doubled the capacity for air into the box
and the performance difference was very noticeable.
All this for about $65.00.
I can send pics if you e-mail me.
Bob
Turbocanon@aol.com

 

why don't you post some pics of that so we can all see what you're talking about.

if you can't post pics just email them to me and i'll post them for you.

rsaeini@hotmail.com

 

This sounds and awful lot like the K&N FIPK intake, only with a few variations.

 

Ive thought of modifying the stock intake box. Two things have held me back..

1. warranty.. I have honda certified warranty and ive heard they will deny you for Anything..

2. You still using the stock piping with the baffles.

Now if i modfied the box, I will probably be able to stick a aluminum pipe instead of the stock one. And that would probably be the best setup... but you wont get the growl of the intake system plus for honda, i would need to get another stock intake box.. But that wont be that costly..

 

anybody else??