I just finished building my custom intake. Idonno if anyone cares, but I'm pretty damn proud of it.

I cut the end off of the snorkel, put the stock flex tube on it (turned around). I found a Civic intake tube at Autozone and cut it then put a K&N cone filter on one end and stuck it in the flex tube. It has black duct tape on it to make it look cleaner and seal better, but it's held together by hose clamps.
I also beat the silencer out of the air box, and she likes it. She likes it alot. It sounds alot better too.

I learned a couple things with this project tho.
1) Wear a shirt when using power cutters that throw sparks
2) If your dad still half-owns the car, tell him whats goin on before he sees you hacking on yoru air box.
3)"Measure twice, cut once" is much more effecient/smart than "Guess and hack"

 

Well, this computer doesnt want to load pictures. As soon as I get to my other one, I'll upload the pics. It looks cool.

 

What he doesn't know can't hurt him Can't wait to see some pics.

 

Aight, I gots the pix now. And my dad thinks it's cool now that he knows it works.

 

Post those suckers up man.

 

well... this computer doesn't want to load them either. I'll have to email them to someone, and have them load them.

 

You can send them to me if you want. What is keeping you from uploading them? Size?

 

Theyre 2.2MB, idonno if thats too big.
I'll email them too ya tho...

 

Those are way too big. You will need to save them as a jpeg or something else and reduce their size if they are too big.

 

Yeah. Hotmail isn't wanting to attach them either. I'll have to wait till my dad brings his laptop home this weekend so I can make them smaller.

It realy does look cool tho! hehe

 

Send them to me: tripstermania@comcast.net

 

Ok.. here they are...

 

And 2.
You cant see it because the picture had to be so small, but I put the skinny, restrictive stock snorkel against the new tubing to show the difference...

 

i think you should have gone with the ones on ebay....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=38634
how much did you spend?

 

I think the ones for the pickups that are featured there will be a tad high to get under a stock hood.

 

Yeah. It looks like it would clear at the engine, but wouldn't quite make it under the nose of the hood. My tubing all angles down.
I only payed 85 bux for it all (all I bought was the filter, $45, and tubing, $40), not much more than that would be after shipping, and I got the satisfaction of building my own stuff, and hours of hacking and hammering.
That one does look much cleaner though... oh well, duct tape rules! hehe

I think it added more torque and not so much top-end, because it pulls harder when I take off and mash it out of corners and too pass and such, but it doesnt realy have any more go-fast. Would explain why it sounds better too. Cars with higher torque/power ratios sound meatier. I may try putting one of those Tornado things in the air box and see if it smooths stuff out and will ad some top-end too...

 

Don't even bother with that tornado junk. Your CAI helped a bunch but now you have other things that are limiting power. Next mod exhaust. These cars never really have any high end pull until you do a cam swap with some tuning. Than you can see 6200 rpm all day long.

 

Do the Tornado's help at all? I can get one dirt cheap from a friends totalled car.

I just wish I had enough money to afford a cam and heads instead of figurin out how to make otherwise useless stuff work.

 

Don't even waste your energy on that thing. All it does is restrict air flow. Sure it may reshape the incomming but your intake manifold does that anyways. It is a worthless product.

 

You should take a look at my CAI I made, made some awesome improve.

 

Need pics to judge.

 

Now I have to find the damn thread on the site. lol

 

CAI thread

 

Ah yes I remember this one now. Your set-up has become quite popular and I will add your thread to the sticky.

 

Drifter, tell your friend that you want to try out the tornado and if it makes a difference you'll pay him the money, if it doesn't just give it back. No harm no fowl.

Steve