Lowkey12

The beauty of thermal wrap- and you can get intake temps- and manifold temps down if your feeding it true cold air- not saying it will be a freakin miracle in power...but look at some roadrace cars...making a ton of heat but they find very good ways to dispense it away from vital parts. Brakes, intake ducts, ect...I still use a stock air box on my girls gsr, and feed true cold air to it- wrapped the larger intake pipe and also the header...hot air tranfers out of the engine bay as it should and the colder intake air stays cooler- there for cooling the temp inside the manifold- colder air=denser air= more power cooling your fuel can help aswell- more of a pain in the *** tho lol

josh89

intercooler on a NA CIVIC... hmm we over here call that rice.

techmage916

don't scrap it. set it aside until you decide to turbocharge your vehicle. i almost said mail it to me so i don't have to buy one when i install a turbo but the chances that your intercooler has a CARB number are thin to none and i live in california where every cop on the road wants to impound your car once a week to fine-tooth-comb your engine compartment for anything non-smog legal or anything you don't have a receipt for (to prove it isnt stolen)

masterEF

in that case send it over here
ill gladly take it off your hands

thumper64

Sucking cool air into a hot intake plenum is better than hot air into a hot plenum. With how much gets sucked in, hopefully it doesn't all get warmed up to the same temperature.

If you're concerned about IATs, get a sheet of Teflon and make an insulating gasket and reroute your coolant lines or something. Also, strap a sack of dry ice to the intake manifold.

The stock air box is quietter and the engine is tuned for it, a CAI is louder generally and the engine wasn't tuned for it. Without tuning the ECU and putting the car on a dyno, I would refrain from making a decision about throttle response simply based on your ears or butt dyno.

garage12

Lol at the guy with brown sheets. Sure you're not talking about shitting the bed instead of sweating?

I run standard airbox with an uprated panel filter on all my cars with standard ecu. Planning on running a CAI on my new one but that will be getting a remap

b20VGSR

hey it may not gain power but jus mount it on there it looks koo

FearTheH

iTrader: (5)

It only looks cool if it sounds cool. Then everyone that outruns u can tell all their friends that they beat ur "turboed" civic.