so i began to install my talking car alarm, then started to open the fender and did this in the process. The intake piping was from a civic, so a lil cutting was involved here and there. So here it is, finally. NOTE: will have to make another spare short intake tubing for them rainy days.

materials used - honda civic cai, al piping, a few pop cans, a pen, and rubber hose, and u got urself and cold air intake

extension al pipe from home depot

maf sensor under fuse box

piping thru behind fender(outside look)

piping thru behind fender(inside look)

intake filter by the left hand fog light

 

ha thats about a ghetto mod as it comes. But hey if it works it works lol.

 

Very creative! Looks good

 

good & bad.

Good, that you took the CAI and cut it up.
Bad, the pop cans?!?! Come on... You could've just used some longer silicone couplers or something.

Any codes being thrown by the car?

 

My question is what does this achive ? I mean how much do you gain ? Does it even matter ? These are rolling sofas not ricers.

 

Most "cold air intakes" achieve more air induction noise, but end up losing you power because you suck in hot air in the engine bay. This will probably keep the stock horsepower measurements while increasing the induction noise, but I doubt you'll see any feel-able hp increases at the wheels.

OP - maybe look into replacing those "metal can" segments with black silicone, or something like that - the way it is now, it may be effective, but it looks pretty ghetto.

 

................ You shoulda gone with Monster Energy Drink cans for +12 HP increase!... It's a relatively new but proven technique that few know bout!

 

I love it and especially that Blitz SUS style filter.

 

u might wanna install something like the aem water bypass valve so u dont suck up some water into the engine man....

 

^^^^happened to my car. my cai sucked in so much water it hydrolocked my motor. wish i would have bought the bypass valve.

 

guess what tho, TOTAL COST OF THIS MOD = less than $20
$12 for civic intake off ebay
$4-6 for al piping
$2 for pop cans


as for the codes, i got go to autozone and check again

yeh obviously, im not planning to throw a couple of stacks in and adding a turbo, just basic mods like intake, muffler exhaust, and suspension. not exactly sure how much i gained but it does make a hell of difference from the short ram and i definitely recommend it

as for the bypass valve part, i just happen to have another maf sensor laying around so i can make a short ram and replace how i had it b4. 2nd thought was to design a funnel system to prevent water from goin inside the pipe, which would mean id have to stick the intake by the engine, just an idea tho

previous setups, if u think that was ghetto, u'll get definitely get a kick out this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdl7CBe-L4o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M1qbwTod8o

 

^^ Whoa, whoa.

Don't get all defensive there chump. I said it looks like **** due to the cans, but i like the concept more than the final execution.

Anyways...

So, again, it does throw codes,right?? I *need* to know this, since i just lucked out and won an auction on eBay for an 18$ civic intake with filter & all... lol

 

lol @ chump sissy, anyways yeh does pop up codes, dont know for what tho, switched up the maf sensor closer to the engine, seems to decrease it in low rpms, idk will go find codes 2morrow

 

as for codes i got 171 for running lean which i think there is a leak, could be my dirty maf sensor which im cleaning now, i also got 325+330 which r knock sensors which i changed recently, now might be faulty wire

 

Sometimes those things happen with the MAF. I don't get codes with the current intake I made on my RX, but I plan to do another ram air intake within the next month or so once I get materials. It's going to be an intake that will indirectly feed cold rammed air to the intake chamber/MAF as opposed to directly doing it and causing a lean error on the MAF...stay tuned.